Stoke City vs West Brom: Preview and Prediction

Stoke City vs West Brom
English Premier League
Date: Saturday, 24th September, 2016,
Kick-off: 15:00 UK
Venue: Britannia Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent.

Stoke City will welcome West Bromwich Albion to Britannia Stadium on Saturday as both managers look forward to a win to relieve themselves of pressures.

Stoke continued on their decline last weekend,they received a massive 4-1 beating at Selhurst park against Crystal Palace. J. Tomskin, S. Dann, J. McArthur, and A. Townsend all scored 9th, 11th, 71st and 75th minute respectively to give Crystal Palace a 4-0 lead, while M. Arnautovic grabbed a consolation goal for the potters. Also the Potters lost 1-2 at home against Hull City on Tuesday as they exit the League Cup. M. Arnautovic was on score sheet again for the potters but it wasn’t enough to save them from loosing

West Brom ended their winless streak in the Premier League last week , they defeated Bilic’s West Ham 4-2 at home. West Brom’s Nacer Chadli performed delightfully as he had a hand in the 4 goals. N. Chadli scored a brace in the game in the 8th and 56th minute, also he provided the 2 other 2 goals by S. Rondon and James McClean. They will aim to continue with this performance against Stoke City.

Stoke City: Team News

Stoke City have 5 injury concerns, Jack Butland,Xherdan Shaqiri, Ibrahim Afellay, J. Haugaard and Stephen Ireland. Shay Given will remain in goal while Crouch may be called back into the line up.

West Brom: Team News

Its good news that Chris Brunt has returned to light training, while West Brom are free from injury.

Stoke City vs West Brom: Head to Head Statistics

• Stoke have won more of their clash against West Brom, they have won 44 games while West Brom have won 25 games.
• West Brom have won 3 of their last 5 games against the Potters.
• At home, Stoke City have lost just 6 games agains West Brom, hey have won 24

Stoke City vs West Brom: Prediction

Pulis will be looking to get a win over his former team and thus continue from where they left off last week.

The game could go either way considering the poor run of form between the two teams. Stoke have been on 4 game winless streak and have also conceded at least 2 goals in their last 3 games. But I see this game as their turning point