Premier League · ENG · Round 1

Middlesbrough
1 - 1 Full time
Stoke City

Riverside Stadium

Lineups

Middlesbrough4-2-3-1
VV26Valdes
EN24Nsue
AB17Barragan
BG6Gibson
GF3Friend
MD14↓22'de Roon
AC8Clayton
AA27Adomah
GR21↓88'Ramirez
SD19Downing
10⚽Negredo
SG24Given
PB2Bardsley
RS17Shawcross
PW26Wollscheid
EP3Pieters
GW6Whelan
GI21Imbula
MA10Arnautovic
BK27↓78'Krkic
XS22⚽Shaqiri
MB18↓69'Diouf
Stoke City4-2-3-1

Middlesbrough substitutes

34 Adam Forshaw 6.4 ↑22'
35 David Nugent ↑88'
15 Alex Baptiste
18 Cristhian Stuani
1 Dimitrios Konstantopoulos
9 Jordan Rhodes
11 Viktor Fischer

Coach: Aitor Karanka

Stoke City substitutes

19 Jonathan Walters 6.0 ↑69'
4 Joe Allen 6.6 ↑78'
16 Charlie Adam
20 Geoff Cameron
29 Jakob Haugaard
5 Marc Muniesa
25 Peter Crouch

Coach: Mark Hughes

Match events

11'Álvaro Negredo assist: Gaston Ramirez 1 - 0⚽
22'↑ Adam Forshaw ↓ Marten de Roon (injured)⇄
22'Ryan Shawcross
29'Stewart Downing
30'Shay Given
30'Gaston Ramirez
Second half
48'Phil Bardsley
67'Xherdan Shaqiri 1 - 1⚽
69'↑ Jonathan Walters ↓ Mame Biram Diouf⇄
78'↑ Joe Allen ↓ Bojan Krkic⇄
84'Philipp Wollscheid
88'↑ David Nugent ↓ Gaston Ramirez⇄
90+1'Adam Forshaw
90+4'Marko Arnautovic

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Match details

CompetitionPremier League
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 13 August 2016, 14:00 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

5Middlesbrough wins4Draws2Stoke City wins

11 past meetings on record. Biggest Middlesbrough win: Middlesbrough 3–0 Stoke City (2021). Biggest Stoke City win: Stoke City 0–2 Middlesbrough (2020).

14 Mar 2023Middlesbrough 1 - 1 Stoke CityChampionship
17 Aug 2022Stoke City 2 - 2 MiddlesbroughChampionship
30 Apr 2022Middlesbrough 3 - 1 Stoke CityChampionship
11 Dec 2021Stoke City 0 - 0 MiddlesbroughChampionship
13 Mar 2021Middlesbrough 3 - 0 Stoke CityChampionship
5 Dec 2020Stoke City 1 - 0 MiddlesbroughChampionship
27 Jun 2020Stoke City 0 - 2 MiddlesbroughChampionship
20 Dec 2019Middlesbrough 2 - 1 Stoke CityChampionship
19 Apr 2019Middlesbrough 1 - 0 Stoke CityChampionship
3 Nov 2018Stoke City 0 - 0 MiddlesbroughChampionship
Show all 11 past meetings
4 Mar 2017Stoke City 2 - 0 MiddlesbroughPremier League