Middlesbrough assistant manager Malcolm Crosby rates Jeremie Aliadiere and Stewart Downing as the two best wingers in the Premiership.

"We've got four top attacking players in the team at the moment and that's why I would always back us to create chances," Crosby told the Evening Gazette.

"When you play with two wide players it can be something of a gamble at times, but you have so many more attacking options. We felt during the summer that Aliadiere had the qualities to do a job on the right and so far we've been very pleased with him.

"He played there for Arsenal in the past, so it was not completely new to him, and we always have the option to put him back in the middle.

"But we are getting a lot from him on the right.

"In Aliadiere and Stewart Downing, I don't think there are two better attacking wide players in the Premier league at this moment in time."