Preston North End should be favourites to win this home match against Stoke City, if the league table is thought to provide some clues. Or are we eyeing a possible shock?
- Preston North End have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Championship
- Stoke City have scored at least twice as many goals away as Preston North End have scored home.
These are full days for the team playing at home, as they had a match only three days ago in the Championship. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Bristol City.
Preston North End form and stats
Preston North End's results here at Deepdale in the Championship have been very modest with 1 victory, 4 draws and 2 defeats.
Preston North End lost their last game at Bristol City (placed 11th) after a 1-2 scoreline. The first loss after going unbeaten in three league rounds. Defender Hughes got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.65/10. Hughes scored one goal and won 5 of 7 duels.
In the game before, an away victory match versus Norwich City with a 3-2 scoreline.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Preston have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 12 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 3 and lost 4.
It should be added that a peek at the 14 most recent league games shows that 11 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Preston North End as they are travelling to their away game against Huddersfield Town in the Championship. That match is three days after this one.
Preston North End has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: {2 goals} from 7 games. From these home matches, Preston have conceded only 4 goals.
Stoke City form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. Stoke City has drawn their two previous away games.
Stoke City are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the game against Sheffield United (placed 1st). Those three points felt nice as this team had gone three league games without victory. Jagielka, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.43. Jagielka scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and won 3 of 5 duels.
Before that, Stoke travelled to Burnley and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Stoke City playing away and similar expectations, we found 13 relevant matches. Results were 4 Stoke City wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Rotherham United in just three days.
Stoke City have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Preston five wins, four draws and Stoke City one victory. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  E. Riis Jakobsen 4 goals |   L. Baker 4 goals |  B. Wilmot 3 goals |
Preston North End missing players
Stoke City missing players
| Preston North End | Stoke City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 7 | 13 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 57% | 57% | 33% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 86% | 92% |
| 29% | 29% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 71% | 77% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 43% | 46% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 31% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 21% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 43% | 46% |
| 64% | 57% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 43% | 31% |
| 57% | 71% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 29% | 31% |
| 4.6 | 5.4 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4 | 5.2 |
| 6.1 | 5.1 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9.5 | 8 | 6.6 |
| 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.9 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.6 | 13 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.8 | 10.9 | 12.3 |
| 3.8 | 4 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
| 15% | 7% | 7% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 28% | 32% |
| 13.9 | 11.1 | 9.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.2 | 13.7 | 12.2 |
| 3.3 | 3 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
- Preston North End have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Championship
- Preston North End have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Championship
- Preston North End have the fewest scored goals in the first half (4) in Championship
- Preston North End have the most clean sheets (9) in Championship
- Preston North End have the most matches under the total-line (12) in Championship
- Stoke City have scored at least twice as many goals away as Preston North End have scored home.
- Stoke City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sheffield United | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 24 |
| 2 | Norwich City | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 24 |
| 3 | Queens Park Rangers | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 24 |
| 4 | Burnley | 13 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 22 |
| 5 | Reading | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -3 | 22 |
| 6 | Swansea City | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 21 |
| 7 | Blackburn Rovers | 14 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| 8 | Preston North End | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 19 |
| 9 | Wigan Athletic | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | -2 | 19 |
| 10 | Luton Town | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 18 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 18 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -1 | 18 |
| 13 | Sunderland | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 17 |
| 14 | Watford | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 17 |
| 15 | Millwall | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -2 | 17 |
| 16 | Birmingham City | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 16 |
| 17 | Stoke City | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -2 | 16 |
| 18 | Rotherham United | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 15 |
| 19 | Blackpool | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 15 |
| 20 | Hull City | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | -13 | 14 |
| 21 | Middlesbrough | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -4 | 13 |
| 22 | West Bromwich Albion | 13 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 11 |
| 23 | Huddersfield Town | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -4 | 11 |
| 24 | Coventry City | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -6 | 7 |
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- Lancashire Post - (local newspaper)
- Stoke City
- StokeonTrent Live - (local newspaper)
