There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with Stoke City leading Barnsley by 7 points.
- Stoke City have won all their matches at home so far.
- Barnsley have the fewest scored goals in the second half (1) in Championship
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
Perfect Championship season at home so far for Stoke City 3 wins from 3 appearances.
A nice win for Stoke last time playing, versus Huddersfield Town. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Jacob Brown scoring for the victors. Midfield player Mario Vrančić got a match rating of 7.8 in that game, the max score being 10. Vrančić served one assist and hit three key passes.
Heartbreak before that as Stoke lost 0-3 at Fulham's place.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Stoke matches with similar probabilities have ended with three wins, zero draws and zero defeats (from three games).
Stoke City are traveling soon after this match as the Championship match at Derby County awaits in three days.
Goals decide football matches and Stoke City are scoring many of them at home; 6 on target from 3 league matches. Stoke's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 3 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Barnsley form and stats
The Championship season is young and Barnsley have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 2 draws and 1 defeat so far.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Barnsley, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-3 versus AFC Bournemouth (placed 5th). Midfielder Romal Palmer was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.0. Palmer dribled passed the opponent 1 of 2 times.
A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Birmingham City.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Barnsley when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing zero and winning one game.
After this away game Barnsley return home for a Championship game against Blackburn Rovers. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Barnsley are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 3 away goals from 3 games (in the league). For Barnsley, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's two Stoke victories, four draws and two Barnsley wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  N. Powell 2 goals |  J. Brown 2 goals |   D. Frieser 2 goals |
Stoke City missing players
Barnsley missing players
| Stoke City | Barnsley | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | 6 | 4 | Scored | S | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 6 | 6 | 8 |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 67% | 67% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| 33% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 17% |
| 17% | 33% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 67% | 50% |
| 33% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| 5.5 | 5 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
| 6 | 5.3 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.2 |
| 1.5 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 2.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.7 | 12 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | 4.7 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| 38% | 43% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 43% | 38% |
- All of Barnsley's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Barnsley have the fewest scored goals in the second half (1) in Championship
- Barnsley have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Barnsley have yet to win a game away.
- Barnsley haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Stoke City have won all their matches at home so far.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | West Bromwich Albion | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 2 | Fulham | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 13 |
| 3 | Stoke City | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| 4 | Queens Park Rangers | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | AFC Bournemouth | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | Coventry City | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | Birmingham City | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 8 | Cardiff City | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 9 | Huddersfield Town | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 10 | Blackburn Rovers | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 12 | Luton Town | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 13 | Preston North End | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 7 |
| 14 | Millwall | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 6 |
| 15 | Middlesbrough | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 6 |
| 16 | Derby County | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 17 | Barnsley | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 6 |
| 18 | Sheffield United | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -2 | 5 |
| 19 | Blackpool | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 5 |
| 20 | Hull City | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -3 | 5 |
| 21 | Swansea City | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 22 | Reading | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 4 |
| 23 | Peterborough United | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -8 | 4 |
| 24 | Nottingham Forest | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -5 | 1 |
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