Stoke City 2-3 Middlesbrough: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 13 October 2026

Result

Stoke City 2-3 Middlesbrough

Championship · Tuesday 13 October 2026, 19:00 UTC · Bet365 Stadium, Stoke · half-time 0-0

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Stoke City 2-3 Middlesbrough: match report

Stoke City lost to Middlesbrough 2-3 in the Championship on Tuesday 13 October 2026 at Bet365 Stadium. The half-time score was 0-0.

Callum Brittain opened the scoring in the 48th minute. Stoke City's goals came from an own goal by Neto Borges (50') and Róbert Boženík (85'). Middlesbrough scored through Callum Brittain (48'), Will Lankshear (73') and Neto Borges (90+1').

Discipline: Stoke City received 1 yellow card; Middlesbrough received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Stoke City were 6th on 16 points from 9 and Middlesbrough 2nd on 18 points from 9. In the current table Stoke City are 4th on 26 points and Middlesbrough are 2nd on 28 points.

Stoke City lined up in a 3-4-3 and Middlesbrough in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Callum Brittain of Middlesbrough (8.2), ahead of Aidan Morris (7.9).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 48'Goal · Callum BrittainMiddlesbrough · 0-1
  • 50'Own goal · Neto BorgesStoke City · 1-1
  • 51'Yellow card · Sebastian BerhalterMiddlesbrough
  • 68'Yellow card · Luke GrahamStoke City
  • 73'Goal · Will LankshearMiddlesbrough · 1-2
  • 85'Goal · Róbert BoženíkStoke City · 2-2
  • 90+1'Goal · Neto BorgesMiddlesbrough · 2-3

Form and table

#TeamPWDLGFGAGDPtsForm
2Middlesbrough138413017+1328WWDWW
4Stoke City148242217+526LWDWW

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Head-to-head

10 meetings: Stoke City 3, draws 3, Middlesbrough 4.

Team news

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

Viktor Johansson, Ben Johnson, Ben Wilmot, Luke Graham, Junior Tchamadeu, Djibril Soumaré, Ethan Galbraith, Eric-Junior Bocat, Jack McGlynn, Lamine Cissé, Jun-ho Bae

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

Radek Vitek, Luke Ayling, Ashley Phillips, Adilson Malanda, Callum Brittain, Sebastian Berhalter, Aidan Morris, Neto Borges, Amario Cozier-Duberry, J. Sarmiento, Will Lankshear

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