Middlesbrough 3-0 Stoke City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 13 March 2021

Result

Middlesbrough 3-0 Stoke City

Championship · Saturday 13 March 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Middlesbrough 3-0 Stoke City: match report

Middlesbrough won against Stoke City 3-0 in the Championship on Saturday 13 March 2021. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Grant Hall opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Middlesbrough's goals came from Grant Hall (21'), Paddy McNair (40') and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (88'). Stoke City did not score.

Discipline: Middlesbrough received no yellow cards; Stoke City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Middlesbrough were 9th on 50 points from 35 and Stoke City 10th on 48 points from 35. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 10th with 64 points, and Stoke City 14th with 60.

Middlesbrough lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Stoke City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Marcus Bettinelli of Middlesbrough (7.8), level with Grant Hall (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Middlesbrough wins, 2 draws and 3 for Stoke City.

Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read L-W-D-L-W and Stoke City's W-L-L-L-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Grant HallMiddlesbrough · 1-0
  • 23'Yellow card · N. PowellStoke City
  • 40'Goal · Paddy McNairMiddlesbrough · 2-0
  • 88'Goal · Nathaniel Mendez-LaingMiddlesbrough · 3-0

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Middlesbrough 4, draws 2, Stoke City 3.

Team news

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Middlesbrough line-up (3-4-1-2)

Marcus Bettinelli, Dael Fry, Grant Hall, Paddy McNair, Djed Spence, Jonathan Howson, Sam Morsy, Marc Bola, Neeskens Kebano, Yannick Bolasie, Chuba Akpom

Stoke City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Angus Gunn, Tommy Smith, Harry James Souttar, James Chester, Rhys Norrington-Davies, John Mikel Obi, Joe Allen, Jacob Brown, Nick Powell, Jack Clarke, Steven Fletcher