Goals scored per match: 1.3Goals conceded per match: 1.2
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Full time: Stoke City won 2-1.
Story
Stoke City vs Sheffield United: the story of the match
Half time: 0-0.
51' — Sheffield United took the lead: 0-1. K. Phillips scored it. 78' — Stoke City equalised: 1-1. J. McGlynn scored it. 86' — Stoke City completed the turnaround: 2-1. S. Gallagher scored it. It came in the closing minutes. Stoke City won 2-1. The decisive goal came in the closing minutes.
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Stoke CityDrawSheffield United
Pre-match model estimate: Stoke City 46%, draw 27%, Sheffield United 27%.
Stoke City recovered from going behind and won 2-1 against Sheffield United. Player of the match: E. Galbraith of Stoke City, with a ScoreMondo rating of 8.6. The match was played on Saturday, 19 September 2026 at bet365 Stadium in Stoke-On-Trent.
Key moments
Half-time: 0-0 between Stoke City and Sheffield United.
Sheffield United took the lead on 51 minutes thanks to K. Phillips. Stoke City drew level at 1-1 in the 78th minute through J. McGlynn, set up by J. Tchamadeu. Stoke City completed the turnaround at 2-1 in the 86th minute through S. Gallagher, set up by E. Galbraith.
The best ScoreMondo ratings after the player of the match went to K. Phillips (Sheffield United, 8.2), J. McGlynn (Stoke City, 8.0) and S. Gallagher (Stoke City, 7.3). From the Stoke City bench came S. Gallagher on 64 minutes, G. Hirst on 64 minutes, J. Tchamadeu on 65 minutes and L. Bombino on 80 minutes, among 5 changes. Sheffield United made 5 changes: T. Cannon for O. Arblaster (67'), J. Shackleton for H. Choudhury (80'), J. Ayew for B. Brereton Diaz (80') and T. Chong for P. Bamford (80').
The context
Stoke City came into the match with 3 wins and 1 draw from their last 4 matches — unbeaten in 4. Their most recent game was a 2-1 win over Watford for Stoke City. Before kick-off, Sheffield United's last 4 matches had brought 1 win and 3 defeats. Sheffield United lost 1-0 away to Fleetwood Town in their last match. The record between them over the last 4 matches reads 0-0-4 from Stoke City's point of view. The last meeting, in 2025 in the English League Championship, went 2-1 to Sheffield United. Those 4 games produced 11 goals, an average of 2.8 per match. Tim Robinson was the referee, averaging 4.4 yellow cards per match across 51 matches in our records.
What the result means
Stoke City are now unbeaten in 5 matches. Stoke City had not beaten Sheffield United in any of the previous 4 meetings we have.
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