The visiting Sheffield Wednesday side should be favourites in this visit to Stoke City, as the away team holds a 21 point advantage from their 23 league games this season.
The visiting Sheffield Wednesday played their last game only four days ago, a Championship match.
Stoke City form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Championship this season. Stoke City have only managed 3 wins, 2 draws and 7 losses from their games here at bet365 Stadium.
The fans are hoping that Stoke City will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Championship game against Middlesbrough (placed 20th). In the match before that, Stoke City hosted Reading and drew the game 0-0.
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 nine games. Stoke City has won 1 of these, drawn 5 and lost 3.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Stoke City as they are travelling to their away game against Fulham in the Championship. That match is three days after this one.
Stoke City has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 12 matches. Stoke City have conceded 18 from these games.
Sheffield Wednesday form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (21) away in Championship, are W5-D2-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Championship.
188 minutes! That's how long the Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Cameron Dawson and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
The supporters enjoyed Sheffield Wednesday's previous game versus Bristol City (placed 9th), a Championship 1-0 win played at home. Preceding that game was the away victory against Nottingham Forest with the score of 4-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Sheffield Wednesday in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Sheffield Wednesday, 5 draws and 5 defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Sheffield Wednesday are hosting Cardiff City in the Championship only three days away.
Sheffield Wednesday are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 21 times in 12 away games so far. As opposed to that, Sheffield Wednesday have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Sheffield Wednesday - Stoke City 1-0 played earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Stoke City 2 wins, 5 draws and Sheffield Wednesday 3 victories. As for goals, 3 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 7 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Fletcher 12 goals |   S. Clucas 6 goals |  J. Allen 3 goals |
Stoke City missing players
Sheffield Wednesday missing players
| Stoke City | Sheffield Wednesday | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 23 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 15 | 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 25 | 14 | 3 | Scored | S | 10 | 21 | 34 |
| 37 | 18 | 7 | Conceded | C | 3 | 13 | 20 |
| 91% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 78% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 70% |
| 65% | 67% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 58% | 43% |
| 22% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 22% |
| 9% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 8% | 4% |
| 57% | 50% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 67% | 57% |
| 17% | 25% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 17% | 35% |
| 35% | 33% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 13% |
| 4.7 | 5.8 | 4.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7 | 6.2 | 5.7 |
| 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.8 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 5.2 | 4.7 |
| 1.3 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3.2 | 2.4 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 280 | 170 | 44 | Total Shots | T S | 51 | 159 | 304 |
| 80 | 46 | 14 | Shots on Target | S O | 20 | 54 | 105 |
| 31% | 30% | 21% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 39% | 32% |
- Sheffield Wednesday has the most scored goals (21) away
- Sheffield Wednesday have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sheffield Wednesday haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Stoke City has the fewest points (11) at home
- Stoke City has the the worst goal difference (-4) at home
- Stoke City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Stoke City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| 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 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 46 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 50 |
| 2 | Leeds United | 23 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 21 | 47 |
| 3 | Sheffield Wednesday | 23 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 34 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 13 | 14 | 39 |
| 4 | Fulham | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 35 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 38 |
| 5 | Preston North End | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 35 | 27 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 38 |
| 6 | Brentford | 23 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 34 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 37 |
| 7 | Swansea City | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 27 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 37 |
| 8 | Blackburn Rovers | 23 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 30 | 28 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 35 |
| 9 | Bristol City | 23 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 34 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 19 | 1 | 35 |
| 10 | Nottingham Forest | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 28 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 34 |
| 11 | Hull City | 23 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 37 | 31 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 33 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 23 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 34 | 32 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 23 | 2 | 33 |
| 13 | Millwall | 23 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 29 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 17 | -1 | 33 |
| 14 | Queens Park Rangers | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 37 | 44 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 20 | -7 | 32 |
| 15 | Birmingham City | 23 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 34 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 22 | -10 | 28 |
| 16 | Reading | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 28 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 26 |
| 17 | Derby County | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 31 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 22 | -10 | 26 |
| 18 | Charlton Athletic | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 30 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 18 | -2 | 25 |
| 19 | Huddersfield Town | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 26 | 35 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 20 | -9 | 25 |
| 20 | Middlesbrough | 23 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 21 | 32 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 21 | -11 | 24 |
| 21 | Luton Town | 23 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 28 | 47 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 30 | -19 | 20 |
| 22 | Barnsley | 23 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 31 | 46 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 22 | -15 | 19 |
| 23 | Wigan Athletic | 23 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 35 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 21 | -15 | 19 |
| 24 | Stoke City | 23 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 25 | 37 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 19 | -12 | 18 |
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