Stoke City vs West Bromwich Albion Match Analysis and Prediction

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West Bromwich Albion will be looking to extend their Championship unbeaten run when travel to bet365 Stadium on Friday to face a resurgent Stoke City in the 11^th league round with kickoff at 21:45.

Stoke City’s first campaign under the management of Michael O’Neill was somewhat disappointing as Stoke ended the season in the 14th spot in the standings with 60 points but this term things seem to be going in the former Northern Ireland boss way and side are on the up now as a year ago, Stoke were number 11 with 15 points in table but now they are number five with 18 points having made a fine start to the campaign with a record of five wins, three draws and only two defeats in their opening 10 matches.

Michael O’Neill’s side are also in a good form especially the home form as they have registered six wins at home so this season across all competitions with four of them being league victories while they have drawn once and are yet to taste a home defeat.

Thus, the Potters come into the contest looking for the three points as they aim to fire back into the mix for automatic promotion and O’Neill will want his side to maintain their current form and momentum.

Meanwhile West Brom have been the high-flyers this season as they are yet to taste a defeat in the Championship recording impressive six wins and four draws in their opening 10 matches, and are currently the league leaders with 22 points.

A run of three draws appeared to be derailing a transforming Valerien Ismael’s side but Ismael got his side back on the track with back-to-back wins starting with a 2-1 win over QPR, which was then followed by the 4-0 thrashing of Cardiff City last Tuesday. Thus, the Baggies will be out for their third consecutive win in the Friday’s clash and Ismael will want his side to keep their current brilliant form and rank in the league standings.

Stoke vs West Brom head to head

Both sides have met in 38 encounters since 1993 with Stoke being the better side with 20 victories while West Brom have recorded nine victories an have also been nine draws. However, West Brom won in their last visits to Stoke.