Stoke City vs Millwall - prediction, team news, lineups

Stoke City are acceptable to big Millwall astatine the bet365 Stadium this Tuesday nighttime successful the Championship, with the visitors looking to ascent backmost into the automatic promotion presumption with a victory.

Meanwhile, the hosts volition beryllium playing for pridefulness arsenic they look to extremity a three-game winless run.

Match preview

Stoke participate this crippled with small to play for with their remaining 3 games of the season, arsenic they presently beryllium harmless from relegation and obscurity adjacent challenging for promotion.

The Potters are presently sat 17th successful the Championship, 11 points supra the relegation zone, and portion they person small to play for, determination volition beryllium a consciousness astatine the nine that they privation to debar a 4th consecutive lucifer without a win.

Fans of the hosts volition instrumentality assurance from their caller grounds astatine home, arsenic they are unbeaten astatine the bet365 Stadium since the commencement of February with 3 wins and arsenic galore draws.

However, determination volition beryllium interest astir their grounds against Millwall, arsenic Stoke person won conscionable 1 of their past 14 league games against the visitors, a 2-0 location triumph successful March 2022.

Millwall travel into this crippled sitting 3rd successful the table, but they are level connected points with Ipswich Town, who are 2nd successful the Championship and occupying the automatic promotion place.

The visitors secured a 2-0 triumph implicit Queens Park Rangers connected Saturday to guarantee they person lone suffered 1 decision successful their past 5 league games.

Alex Neil’s broadside person gone unbeaten successful their past 7 distant league games, portion their 37 points connected the roadworthy this play is their astir since 2015-16 successful the 3rd tier erstwhile they got 39.

Millwall person won 5 of their past 7 league games against Stoke, conceding conscionable 1 extremity successful these 7 matches.

Stoke City Championship form:

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Millwall Championship form:

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Team News

Stoke should proceed to beryllium without Ben Gibson astatine the bosom of defence, arsenic helium missed the decision to Wrexham with a groin issue.

Meanwhile, determination volition beryllium concerns astatine the bosom of their defence with Aaron Cresswell leaving the transportation astatine halftime, arsenic helium could not proceed to play done a genu injury, and they volition beryllium without Bosun Lawal aft helium near the transportation with a hamstring issue.

The hosts volition beryllium thankful that Ashley Phillips is escaped to instrumentality from his one-game suspension aft getting a reddish paper against Blackburn Rovers.

Millwall are expected to beryllium without Alfie Doughty, Joe Bryan and Billy Mitchell done wounded for this fixture.

There volition beryllium concerns astir the fittingness of Derek Mazou-Sacko, arsenic the midfielder went down with an wounded with 20 minutes near to play earlier being substituted successful the last infinitesimal of regular time.

Stoke City imaginable starting lineup:

Bazunu; Bocat, Rak-Sakyi, Phillips, Thomas; Baker, Pearson; Cisse, Jun-Ho, Manhoef; Gallagher

Millwall imaginable starting lineup:

Patterson; Sturge, Cooper, Taylor, Crama; De Norre, Bannan; Ballo, Neghli, Azeez; Coburn

We say: Stoke City 0-2 Millwall

Millwall should look victorious, arsenic they are connected the hunt for automatic promotion to the Premier League, and this should beryllium aided by travelling to a broadside with small to play for portion struggling with injuries successful defence, thing the visitors should instrumentality vantage of.

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