Middlesbrough v Stoke City

Championship | Riverside Stadium
Saturday, 28 October 2023 @ 3.00pm

Middlesbrough host Stoke City at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday on the back of six consecutive wins in the Championship.

It means Middlesbrough have picked up the maximum 18 points from their last six games, and they face a Potters side who have also won their last two matches, and collected nine points from the last possible 18.

In the last 10 years, Middlesbrough and Stoke have played each other on 12 occasions. Middlesbrough won five of them, Stoke two, and they drew five times.

On average, the Boro scored 1.2 goals and the Potters 0.8 in those matches.

Their last meeting was on March 14, when they played out a 1-1 draw.

With 14 goals in 13 games so far this season, Stoke are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.1 goals per game. And they are conceding at an average rate, letting in 18 goals at a rate of 1.4 per game.

Middlesbrough, meanwhile, are above average scorers, with 1.5 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.4. They have conceded 1.4 goals per game.

City are 17th in the table after 13 games, of which they have won five and drawn one, earning 16 points.

The Boro are eight places ahead of the Potters in ninth, with six wins and two draws putting them on 20 points.

Middlesbrough's last match was on Tuesday, a 2-1 win against Norwich City, with Sam Greenwood and Samuel Silvera getting the goals for the Boro.

Stoke beat Leeds United 1-0 last time out, on Wednesday, with Pascal Struijk on the scoresheet.