Middlesbrough vs Stoke City Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Middlesbrough

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Middlesbrough are hoping to win again following a 1-3 Championship success vs Swansea City.

In that game, Middlesbrough managed 49% possession and 15 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. For Middlesbrough, goals were scored by Aaron Ramsey (54'), Cameron Archer (57') and Chuba Akpom (77'). Swansea City had 14 shots at goal with 5 on target. Joël Piroe (15') scored for Swansea City.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Middlesbrough have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Middlesbrough have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 6 goals during that time.

Leading up to this clash, Middlesbrough:

• are unbeaten in the league by Stoke City in their last 4 games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 9 league matches at home. It's been impressive.

Stoke City

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Stoke City come into this meeting following a 3-2 Championship win in the defeat of Blackburn Rovers in their most recent outing.

In that game, Stoke City managed 50% possession and 14 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Stoke City, the goalscorers were Ki-Jana Hoever (24', 43') and Tyrese Campbell (75'). At the other end, Blackburn Rovers had 9 shots at goal with 2 on target. Ben Brereton Díaz (86') and Sam Gallagher (90') scored for Blackburn Rovers.

The stats don’t lie, and Stoke City have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 7 goals overall. Defensively, Stoke City seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this next game, of course.

Their previous form shows that Stoke City:

• are winless against Middlesbrough when having played them away from home in the previous 6 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head to head clashes stretching back to 27/06/2020 shows us that Middlesbrough have won 3 of these games & Stoke City 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

A combined sum of 14 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 10 for The Boro and 4 being from The Potters. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The previous league game featuring these sides was Championship match day 4 on 17/08/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Stoke City 2-2 Middlesbrough.

On that day, Stoke City managed 41% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorers were Jacob Brown (19'), Phil Jagielka (63' Own goal) and D'Margio Wright-Phillips (91').

On the other side, Middlesbrough had 15 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Duncan Watmore (38') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Michael Salisbury.

ℹ️ Team News: Middlesbrough

The Middlesbrough boss Michael Carrick will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of before this match owing to a fully injury-free group to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Stoke City

With a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the Stoke City manager Alex Neil has zero fitness worries at all before this match.

🧠 Prediction

For this match, we think that Middlesbrough have it within them to be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

At the other end, Stoke City might well find it a difficult task to make a breakthrough - but, we do see them scoring as well.

We can therefore see a fairly comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Middlesbrough at full-time.

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Renata Leite, 02:29 10/03/2023