Stoke vs West Bromwich Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 24th August 2024

Round 3 of the new Championship campaign will see last season’s top six finishers West Bromwich pay Stoke a visit at Bet365 Stadium on Saturday.

Stoke enter this round three of the Championship with three points in the bag, and they will be hoping to double that in the coming match.

Stoke have seen both sides of the coin already this season in the Championship, and will out to double up on their share of wins in the coming match.

Nobody likes to be on the losing side, especially so early into a new season. Stoke and West Bromwich are no exception in this respect. Both teams are eager to improve from last term, leading us to expect an exciting affair at Bet365 Stadium.

Stoke go into their next Championship match, scoring a humble average of 1.5 per game in their last ten matches. They scored a mundane 15 times, while conceding ten. That amounts to an average of one per game, where they kept their opponents from scoring five times.

West Bromwich are currently decent goalscorers, as they managed a bearable 12 goals in the past ten outings for an average of 1.2 goals a game. Their opponents scored a total of 12 goals, and while West Bromwich claimed four clean sheets, they conceded an average of 1.2 goals per match.

Supporters will be hoping to see a similarly thrilling encounter, as it turned out to be the last time Stoke played against West Bromwich. It finished 2-2 in a great match between the pair.

Stoke vs West Bromwich Prediction

Stoke Form

In their last three matches, Stoke beat Coventry by 1-0 and Carlisle by 0-2, before losing against Watford by 3-0. Stoke won half of their previous six matches on home soil in the Championship, while also drawing two. They suffered one defeats, while they scored 11 and conceded six goals.

West Bromwich go into a new season as candidates for the podium, but will count themselves lucky to achieve more than a third place.

West Bromwich Form

West Bromwich achieved a win, a loss and a draw in their previous three matches, starting off beating Queens Park Rangers 1-3. A 2-1 defeat against Fleetwood followed, before drawing with Leeds in a match resulting 0-0. West Bromwich managed to win just once in their past six away games in the Championship. On top of winning once they also drew two as well as losing three, while scoring 12 time and letting in eight.

West Bromwich go into a new season as candidates for the podium, but will count themselves lucky to achieve more than a third place.

Stoke and West Bromwich looks like an equal match, and it is difficult to separate one from the other currently, which makes the draw seem worth a punt.

Stoke vs West Bromwich Squads

Stoke Squad

Schumacher will select the starting XI for the upcoming match against West Bromwich from the following players (the statistics in the brackets represent goals scored and matches played in the Championship this season):

Frank Fielding (0/0), Jack Bonham (0/0), Scott Morris (0/0), Viktor Johansson (0/2), Ben Gibson (0/2), Ben Wilmot (0/2), Bosun Lawal (0/0), Enda Stevens (0/0), Eric Bocat (0/2), Junior Tchamadeu (0/2), Michael Rose (0/0), Million Manhoef (0/2), Andre Vidigal (0/0), Andrew Moran (0/1), Ben Pearson (0/0), Daniel Johnson (0/1), Joon-Ho Bae (0/1), Jordan Thompson (0/2), Josh Laurent (0/2), Lewis Baker (1/1), Lewis Koumas (0/1), Lynden Gooch (0/2), Nikola Jojic (0/0), Sol Sidibe (0/0), Wiktor Gromek (0/0), Wouter Burger (0/2), Emre Tezgel (0/2), Niall Ennis (0/1), Ryan Mmaee (0/1), Sam Gallagher (0/0), Thibaud Verlinden (0/0).

West Bromwich Squad

Below is the full team squad of West Bromwich. The manager Corberan will pick his starting XI against Stoke from these players:

Alex Palmer (0/2), Joseph Wildsmith (0/0), Ted Cann (0/0), Caleb Taylor (0/0), Darnell Furlong (0/2), Gianluca Frabotta (0/1), Kyle Bartley (0/2), Patrick McNair (0/0), Semi Ajayi (0/2), Torbjoern Lysaker Heggem (0/2), Alex Mowatt (0/2), Grady Diangana (0/1), Jayson Molumby (0/2), Jed Wallace (0/1), John Swift (0/2), Ousmane Diakite (0/2), Reece Hall (0/0), Tom Fellows (0/2), Daryl Dike (0/0), Devante Cole (0/1), Fenton Heard (0/0), Josh Maja (3/2), Karlan Grant (0/2), Lewis Dobbin (0/2), Mo Faal (0/0).

Stoke vs West Bromwich Team News

Apparently, West Bromwich have just two players on the injured and absent list, as they prepare for their match on Saturday.

Names like Daryl Dike and Josh Maja most likely won't be deemed fit enough to play Stoke.

Stoke vs West Bromwich Lineups

Stoke vs West Bromwich H2H

Their latest encounter was a belter of a game, which finished with a 2-2 scoreline. An uncommon result, but we would not mind a similar goal fest this coming Saturday. In last ten encounters between the clubs, West Bromwich have been the dominant force winning five matches against Stoke. The bookies have West Bromwich to win this match at best price odds of 15/8.

Stoke vs West Bromwich Results

Both teams found the back of the net five times in the past ten matches between home side Stoke and West Bromwich. Best priced odds on BTTS with the bookies are at 5/6.

Stoke vs West Bromwich Betting Tips

Million Manhoef look like value in the goal scoring market with three strikes to his name in six Championship matches. The visitors are crossing their fingers Josh Maja adds to his three Championship goals come this coming Saturday.

Stoke claimed all three points five times in their last 10 home matches across all tournaments, while also drawing two along the way. They endured defeat in three of the games in this run. West Bromwich won two of their last 10 games away, while drawing two and losing six in this series of matches. Stoke will be optimistic of getting on the scoresheet on Saturday, as West Bromwich have been unable to keep a single clean sheet in their last 10 away games. The hosts fought their way to five clean sheets in their last 10 games on home soil.

Less than 2.5 goals came out four times in the past ten encounters between these two while both teams not to score was a winning bet five times. Stoke managed an average of one goal, with West Bromwich averaging 1.3 goals. Over 2.5 goals happened in five of Stoke’s last ten matches across all tournaments. They pulled off an average of 1.8 goals during this run. In the last ten games for West Bromwich, seven of them had more than 2.5 goals, and they scored an average of one time goals per game themselves.