Monday Football Tips: Back Black Cats bookings at Boro

What a way to celebrate the 150th Tees-Wear Derby than with Boro legend Tony Mowbray returning to the club as new manager of local rivals Sunderland.

It's just an extra layer in intrigue to what looks a superb contest, with Sunderland impressing on their return to the Championship - only losing twice to Sheffield United and Norwich.

Chris Wilder's Middlesbrough, meanwhile, are in the relegation zone after just one win in seven this season - but they've been playing a lot better than those results suggest.

We should see goals, with both sides managing to find the net in six of their seven games so far and with Wilder's Boro still waiting for their first clean sheet of the campaign.

Cards are always a good idea in debry games, and in Sunderland we have the Championship leaders with 21 yellows and a red from their seven games.

Crucially, in tough away games at Stoke and Sheff Utd they've picked up six and five cards respectively - and this away game will top both of them for intensity.

At 3/1 at the time of writing for the Black Cats to get over 3.5 cards here it's well worth adding to both teams to score in our Bet Builder for a tidy profit.