📏 Form Guide

Derby County

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Derby County will be wanting a better result here after a 3-2 Championship losing effort in their last game against Coventry City.

In that game, Derby County managed 49% possession and 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Derby County was Ben Brereton Díaz (38', 77'). Coventry City got 13 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Frank Onyeka (12') and Jack Rudoni (68', 80') scored for Coventry City.

Over their preceding 6 fixtures, John Eustace's Derby County have netted 9 times resulting in an average number of goals per match equal to 1.5.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Derby County:

• have not beaten Stoke City in their previous 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 4 league matches at home.

Stoke City

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Stoke City head into the clash following on from a 2-0 Championship win as they beat Sheffield Wednesday in their previous match.

In that match, Stoke City managed 48% possession and 12 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Stoke City, goals were scored by Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (32') and Lamine Cissé (57'). For their opponents, Sheffield Wednesday got 16 shots at goal with 2 on target.

The stats don’t lie, and Stoke City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 11 goals in all. Defensively, Stoke City seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Analysis of their past results shows that Stoke City:

• haven't won against Derby County when having played them away from home in the previous 5 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• have not won away from home in their last 6 league games.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head to head clashes dating back to 20/03/2021 shows us that Derby County have won 2 of them and Stoke City 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

A sum of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 of them from The Rams and 8 for The Potters. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Championship match day 1 on 09/08/2025 when the final score was Stoke City 3-1 Derby County.

On that occasion, Stoke City had 68% possession and 12 shots on goal with 7 on target. The goals were scored by Lewis Baker (70'), Divin Mubama (95') and Sorba Thomas (99').

On the other side, Derby County got 3 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Carlton Morris (60') was the scorer.

The referee was Elliot Bell.

🗞️ Team News: Derby County

Josh Vickers (Groin strain), Callum Elder (Broken toe), Sammie Szmodics (concussion), Lars-Jørgen Salvesen (Calf injury), Rhian Brewster (Knee surgery) and Jacob Widell Zetterström (Ill) will not be able to play for Derby County manager John Eustace.

It looks as if The Rams may well opt for a 4-3-3 system for this one and select Richard O´Donnell, Joe Ward, Dion Sanderson, Matt Clarke, Derry Murkin, David Ozoh, Bobby Clark, Lewis Travis, Ben Brereton Díaz, Patrick Agyemang and Jaydon Banel.

📰 Team News: Stoke City

We’re of the thinking that The Potters might elect for a 3-4-2-1 formation, going with Gavin Bazunu, Bosun Lawal, Ashley Phillips, Aaron Cresswell, Sorba Thomas, Steven Nzonzi, Tatsuki Seko, Eric Junior Bocat, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi, Million Manhoef and Lamine Cissé.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Stoke City have the ability to put one past this Derby County outfit, although that possibly won’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

We think that it’s going to be a close game with a 2-1 advantage for Derby County at the end of the 90 minutes. Looking forward to this.

Lucas Pereira, 03:02 06/04/2026