National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Stoke City or West Bromwich Albion that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Stoke City form and stats
Last season their Carabao Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.When playing at home in the Championship, Stoke City have managed 1 win, 0 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 1 games.
Stoke's previous game was also played at home, ending 4-1 versus Rotherham United. The home side are looking to build on that result. Wilmot was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.64 out of 10. The defender Wilmot signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and won 13 of 17 duels.
Prior to that, an away loss at Watford in the Championship.This is expected to be a close game, with Stoke City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Stoke City as a small favourite), we find 9 games. Stoke City has won 1 of these, drawn 3 and lost 5.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Stoke as they are travelling to their away game against Ipswich Town in the Championship. That match is four days after this one.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Stoke City at home in the league. 4 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
West Bromwich Albion form and stats
Last season their Carabao Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.Playing away, West Bromwich Albion have won 0 games, drawn 0 and suffered 1 defeat in the Championship this season.
West Bromwich Albion are travelling again after losing away to Blackburn Rovers in their previous match (1-2). Midfielder Phillips was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.21. Phillips scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Prior to that match, the West Bromwich Albion manager Vallet faced defeat when travelling to Swansea City and losing 2-3.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by West Bromwich Albion in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for West Bromwich Albion, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as WBA are hosting Swansea City in the Championship only four days away.
{1 goals} so far away for West Bromwich Albion, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
Previous ten meetings with these participants: Stoke City won four, West Bromwich Albion were winners in five and we saw one draw. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Cunha Vidigal 2 goals |  J. Brown 1 goals |  K. Hoever 1 goals |
Stoke City missing players
West Bromwich Albion missing players
| Stoke City | West Bromwich Albion | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Lost | L | 9 | 11 | ||
| 33 | 12 | Scored | S | 18 | 32 | ||
| 25 | 12 | Conceded | C | 28 | 37 | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 56% | 42% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 43% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 12% | ||
| 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 7% | 24% | ||
| 48% | 58% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 24% | ||
| 6.3 | 7.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 5.2 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 4.4 | ||
| 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12.8 | 10.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11.4 | ||
| 4.9 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 3.8 | ||
| 27% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 34% | ||
| 8.2 | 7.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.7 | 10.3 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Watford | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Stoke City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Plymouth Argyle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Blackburn Rovers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Norwich City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Southampton | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Millwall | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Preston North End | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Birmingham City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Bristol City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Swansea City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Coventry City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Leicester City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Sunderland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Ipswich Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Cardiff City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Leeds United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Sheffield Wednesday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 19 | West Bromwich Albion | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 20 | Hull City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 21 | Middlesbrough | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 22 | Huddersfield Town | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 23 | Rotherham United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |
| 24 | Queens Park Rangers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
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