On August 17, as part of the 4th round of the English Championship, Stoke City will fight Middlesbrough at home. In our forecast, we will analyze the chances of both teams to win this meeting.
Stoke City
"Potters" are in the sixteenth place of the standings. The team did not start in the best way in the season – two defeats and one victory. Stoke City lost to Millwall with a score of 0:2 and could not defeat Huddersfield Town last Saturday - 1:3. However, the team can boast of a contented confident victory over Blackpool, the meeting ended with a score of 2:0 in their favor.The team lacks Harry Souttar, who occupies the position of central defender, the athlete has a cruciate ligament rupture.
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough, in turn, has no victories at all yet, in three rounds the team has two draws and one defeat. Smoggy failed to beat Sheffield United (2:2) and West Bromwich Albion (1:1), and also lost on the road to Queens Park Rangers (3:2). Due to this start of the season, the team is located only on the nineteenth line of the championship. Chris Wilder's wards have serious problems in defense, but there are no significant losses in the team.
Figures and statistics:
- Middlesbrough have won three of their last five matches.
- The last face-to-face meeting of the teams also ended in favor of Smogga - 3:1.
- The general statistics of face-to-face matches do not indicate a clear advantage of one or another team.
Forecast
Both teams started their performance rather poorly in the season and in general have equal chances to win, they may even finish this meeting with a draw. But each of the teams scored at least one goal against the opponent in almost every match this season, so our forecast is that both will score. The coefficient is 1.85.