Stoke City vs Sheffield United Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 25)

📏 Form Guide

Stoke City

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Stoke City will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 6-0 Championship loss in their previous game against Leeds United.

In that match, Stoke City had 33% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Leeds United had 18 shots at goal with 11 on target. Joël Piroe (6', 8', 20', 41'), Junior Firpo (26') and Wilfired Gnonto (59') scored for Leeds United.

In their prior six fixtures, Mark Robins's Stoke City have managed to score a total of 8 times giving them an average number of goals per match of 1.33.

Analysis of their past results shows that Stoke City:

• have not beaten Sheffield United in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 5 home league matches.

Sheffield United

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After tasting defeat last time out to Burnley in Championship competition, Sheffield United and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Sheffield United had 48% possession and 14 shots on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Sheffield United was Tom Cannon (37'). For their opponents, Burnley got 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Josh Brownhill (28', 44') was the scorer for Burnley.

The stats tell the story, and Sheffield United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 7 goals in all. In defence, Sheffield United have been far from perfect. In any event, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern will persist in this upcoming game or not.

Pre-game facts show that Sheffield United:

• have left without a victory over Stoke City when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head to head meetings dating back to 05/05/2019 tells us that Stoke City have won 2 of them and Sheffield United 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 8 of them for The Potters and 10 coming from The Blades. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Championship match day 12 on 26/10/2024 when the final score was Sheffield United 2-0 Stoke City.

On that occasion, Sheffield United had 59% possession and 19 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorers were Kieffer Moore (14') and Tyrese Campbell (50').

Stoke City got 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Ben Toner.

📋 Team News: Stoke City

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just a single fitness concern for the Stoke City manager Mark Robins to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust squad. Josh Wilson-Esbrand (Calf injury) won’t play.

📰 Team News: Sheffield United

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Rob Holding (Ankle surgery), Jamie Shackleton (Foot injury) and Oliver Arblaster (Cruciate ligament tear) will miss out on this game.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Sheffield United and Stoke City could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw. We’re therefore expecting a tight encounter with a score draw at the end of the match.

📚 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Checking on the latest odds for this match on the 90 minute result market, staking on Stoke City can be had for 2.35, betting on the game finishing all-square is 3.5 & putting your money on the winning team to be Sheffield United can get you 2.8. They’re the best returns offered as of now.

Victor Martins, 09:03 24/04/2025