📏 Form Guide

Stoke City

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Stoke City will be wanting a better result here after the 6-0 Championship defeat last time out to Leeds United.

In that match, Stoke City had 33% possession and 5 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. At the other end, Leeds United had 18 shots on 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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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Burnley in Championship action, Sheffield United and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Sheffield United had 48% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Sheffield United was Tom Cannon (37'). Burnley had 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Josh Brownhill (28', 44') scored 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 review of their past head to head meetings dating back to 05/05/2019 shows us that Stoke City have won 2 of these and Sheffield United 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined sum of 18 goals were scored between them in these games, with 8 for The Potters and 10 coming from The Blades. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The last league meeting featuring the two was Championship match day 12 on 26/10/2024 when it finished Sheffield United 2-0 Stoke City.

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

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

The match was refereed by Ben Toner.

ℹ️ Team News: Stoke City

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just the lone fitness concern for the Stoke City manager Mark Robins to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Josh Wilson-Esbrand (Calf injury) is out of contention.

It seems likely that The Potters may well use the 4-2-3-1 system for the game and select Viktor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Ashley Phillips, Ben Wilmot, Lynden Gooch, Wouter Burger, Tatsuki Seko, Million Manhoef, Lewis Baker, Joon-ho Bae and Ali Al-Hamadi.

📰 Team News: Sheffield United

It’s our belief that The Blades will likely play in a 4-2-3-1 system, choosing Michael Cooper, Alfie Gilchrist, Rob Holding, Anel Ahmedhodzic, Sam McCallum, Sydie Peck, Hamza Choudhury, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi, Callum O'Hare, Rhian Brewster and Thomas Cannon.

🔮 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.

Victor Martins, 18:02 25/04/2025