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  1. Stoke grab win over Boro

    Stoke grab win over Boro

    An 85th-minute winner from Ryan Shawcross earned Stoke City a crucial 1-0 win against fellow relegation contenders Middlesbrough. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Stoke City
    • Middlesbrough
    • 90' But Boro can't do enough - it's all over!!
    • 90' We're into injury time...
    • 90' Downing whips in a great cross from the right to the far post, but Alves just fails to get a crucial touch!
    • 89' Boro appeal for a penalty! Beattie appeared to trip Tuncay in the box as the Turk looked to latch on to a loose ball. But ref Lee Mason waves away the appeals. I think he's got that wrong!
    • 88' Huth is up front for Boro now and Stoke are defending for their lives.
    • 86' What a massive goal for Stoke. Can Boro make a fight of it in the last few minutes?
    • 85' GOAL!!! Shawcross scores!! The defender rises unchallenged to flick Delap's throw into the bottom right-hand corner of Brad Jones's goal.
    • 84' Stoke win a throw level with the edge of the Boro box on the right. Delap will throw this long.
    • 83' Stoke make their final change. Sidibe comes on for Liam Lawrence.
    • 82' O'Neil frees Andrew Taylor in space on the left just outside the Stoke area - but the full-back fires his cross straight at Sorensen.
    • 80' Boro make a change - Hoyte on for McMahon at right-back.
    • 77' Downing curls the outswinging corner into the box for Wheater, who powers a header over the Stoke bar.
    • 76' Some nice interplay from Boro frees Alves shoot from just inside the box - but it's blocked and deflects behind for a corner.
    • 74' It's whipped into the near post - and Faye heads well wide.
    • 73' Etherington forces a corner for Stoke on the left.
    • 72' Delap hurls another long throw into the Boro box - but Wheater heads clear. Great defending.
    • 70' Liam Lawrence weaves his way to the byline past Andrew Taylor on the right wing and dinks the ball to the far post where Beattie is unmarked - but he heads over! Another wasted chance.
    • 66' Lawrence dinks the free-kick to Shawross, who heads straight at Jones. Another decent chance. Someone has to score here soon.
    • 65' Stoke win a free-kick 35 yards out from the Boro goal.
    • 64' Tuncay picks up the ball in the centre circle and makes a driving run all the way into the Stoke box. He shoots when he's just been knocked off balance and hios effort skews wide. Brilliant run though.
    • 61' The ball falls to Beattie, who shoots over from just three yards out! A great chance for the Stoke striker there.
    • 60' Stoke win a long throw level with the Boro penalty area.
    • 59' Another big chance for Boro! A Gary O'Neil free-kick bobbles right through a crowded Stoke area to Tuncay at the far post. The Turk controls nicely but shoots into the side netting. The angle was tight - should he have squared the ball?
    • 57' Great save by Sorensen! The Stoke defence backed off Gary O'Neil way too much on the edge of the box. O'Neil shot low and right-footed towards the bottom left-hand corner of Sorensen's goal, but the Dane made a crucial save to turn it behind for a corner.
    • 57' James Beattie is booked for a late tackle on Taylor. That's Stoke's fourth booking of the match.
    • 55' Now Boro make a change - Alves comes on for King up front.
    • 52' Huth looks to bring the ball down in the box, but Shawcross just gets there first to clear.
    • 50' Stoke make another change: Etherington is on for Diao as Tony Pulis goes for a change of tack.
    • 49' It's been a tense opening to this half, with neither team stringing much together.
    • 48' It's a straight swap with Kelly on for Andy Wilkinson at right-back. Apparently Wilkinson has a back problem, which sounds like something my gran might have, but there you go.
    • 47' Stoke have made a change at the break. Stephen Kelly has come on - not sure who for yet.
    • 46' Welcome back for the second half. Boro kick-off.
    • 45' Ref Lee Mason blows his whistle for half-time. An entertaining half, with the best chance falling to Stoke's James Beattie. But Boro have had the bulk of possession and created good opportunities themselves. Join us in 15 minutes for the second-half.
    • 45' Huth again finds some space in the Stoke area - but he lashes a half-volley wildly wide.
    • 45' But Downing's delivery fails to beat the first man. Poor.
    • 44' Higginbotham commits a foul as he looks to win the ball back on the right wing. It's another chance to get the ball into the box for Boro.
    • 43' The resulting free-kick is lofted by Downing into the Stoke box, where Huth is lurking unmarked at the far post - but the defender comically closes his eyes as he goes to head it and misses the ball completely. Good chance, woeful effort.
    • 42' Things are getting quite feisty in this match now. Diao picks up the latest booking for a lunge at Downing.
    • 39' A hoofed kick from Brad Jones almost finds Marlon King in the penalty area at the other end of the pitch, but he fails to control the ball and Stoke clear.
    • 37' Stoke's Glenn Whelan is booked for a late foul on Shawky.
    • 36' Lawrence chips the ball into the area instead of shooting, but Brad Jones is fouled by Whelan. Free-kick to Boro inside their own box.
    • 35' Stoke win a free-kick 25 yards out from the Boro goal. It's slightly to the left, and you'd think Lawrence will have a go here.
    • 33' Diao gives the ball in a dangerous area in front of the Stoke box - King is free, but shoots tamely and Sorensen saves.
    • 32' Tuncay curls a lovely right-footed shot which whistles just over. Great effort from the edge of the box on the left by the Turk.
    • 30' Fuller is booked for tangling with Huth. The Stoke man slapped the defender in the face, probably accidentally, while trying to fend off the defender.
    • 28' Jones collects the corner well.
    • 27' The ball bounces around the Boro box and is then put behind for a corner.
    • 26' Delap has another chance with a long throw.
    • 22' Now Beattie is penalised for a foul in the box at the other end of the pitch.
    • 20' Boro win another free-kick which they can stick into the box. They do just that, but McMahon is penalised for a push. Free-kick Stoke.
    • 18' McMahon pumps a free-kick into the Stoke box. It's headed behind for a corner by a Stoke player - but the ref decides to give a goal kick. Poor decision. A minute before that Pogatetz picked up the game's first booking.
    • 15' Tuncay is sent through on goal. He's one-on-one with the keeper - but Sorensen saves at the Boro man's feet.
    • 13' Good chance for Boro. They work the ball to Downing on the left, who delivers a beauty of a cross on to the head of McMahon bombing into the box. The defender heads the ball powerfully at goal - but straight at Sorensen, who saves.
    • 11' Lawrence gets the ball in the Boro area, but miscontrols and loses the ball.
    • 9' Stoke eventually take the corner, but Boro head clear. The visitors have a big side out there today - no doubt to deal with Stoke's power in the air.
    • 7' Fuller picked up an injury in the build-up to that chance and is receiving treatment.
    • 6' Great save! Delap's throw is headed out then back into the six-yard box for Beattie, who stabs the ball goalwards from point-blank range. But Jones in the Boro goal gets a vital hand to it to send the ball behind for a corner.
    • 5' Stoke win a throw in inside the Boro half. Delap will take it long.
    • 3' O'Neil plays the ball to Downing... but Stoke shepherd it out for a goal kick.
    • 2' Stoke make just one change from the side that lost at Everton last time out, with Fuller replacing Sidibe up front.
    • 1' We're under way at the Britannia Stadium.
    • - Team news: Boro make three changes, with Aliadiere, Arca and the suspended Bates missing and Taylor, Shawky and O'Neil coming in.
    • - Middlesbrough teams: Jones, McMahon, Wheater, Huth, Taylor, O'Neil, Shawky, Pogatetz, Downing, Sanli, King; Subs: Turnbull, Hoyte, Emnes, Alves, Arca, Adam Johnson, Grounds
    • - Stoke teams: Sorensen, Wilkinson, Shawcross, Abdoulaye Faye, Higginbotham, Lawrence, Diao, Whelan, Delap, Beattie, Fuller; Subs: Simonsen, Sidibe, Amdy Faye, Kelly, Etherington, Camara, Sonko

  • Team Stats

    Stoke City Stats Middlesbrough
    35% Possession 64%
    11 Shots 16
    3 Shots on target 2
    1 Saves 2
    5 Corners 4
    12 Fouls 17
    1 Offsides 2
    4 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 0
    11 Tackles 17
    130 Accurate passes 291
    40 Bad passes 72

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Stoke City
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      29 Thomas Sorensen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4 0
      25 Abdoulaye Faye 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 4 2
      17 Ryan Shawcross 1 2 2 1 3 0 0 7 0 2
      3 Danny Higginbotham 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 13 10 0
      28 Andy Wilkinson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1
      6 Glenn Whelan 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15 4 0
      18 Salif Diao 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 2 0
      7 Liam Lawrence 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 17 2 1
      24 Rory Delap 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 10 6 2
      20 James Beattie 0 5 1 5 3 0 0 13 2 2
      10 Ricardo Fuller 0 3 0 4 3 1 0 15 4 1
      22 Stephen Kelly 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0
      19 Amdy Faye 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      33 Ibrahima Sonko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Mamady Sidibe 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
      27 Henri Camara 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Steve Simonsen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      26 Matthew Etherington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0
    • Middlesbrough
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      22 Bradley Jones 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 0 0
      14 Robert Huth 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 10 0 4
      31 David Wheater 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 18 4 2
      6 Emanuel Pogatetz 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 27 10 0
      3 Andrew Taylor 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 32 19 4
      29 Anthony McMahon 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 18 0 2
      4 Gary O'Neil 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 50 12 1
      15 Mohamed Shawky 0 3 0 1 3 0 0 38 5 2
      19 Stewart Downing 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 48 13 1
      17 Tuncay Sanli 0 5 0 2 2 1 0 25 7 0
      16 Marlon King 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 1
      20 Julio Arca 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Afonso Alves 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 9 2 0
      40 Jonathon Grounds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Marvin Emnes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      28 Adam Johnson 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Justin Hoyte 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
      21 Ross Turnbull 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90' Downing whips in a great cross from the right to the far post, but Alves just fails to get a crucial touch!
    • 89' Boro appeal for a penalty! Beattie appeared to trip Tuncay in the box as the Turk looked to latch on to a loose ball. But ref Lee Mason waves away the appeals. I think he's got that wrong!
    • 85' GOAL!!! Shawcross scores!! The defender rises unchallenged to flick Delap's throw into the bottom right-hand corner of Brad Jones's goal.
    • 70' Liam Lawrence weaves his way to the byline past Andrew Taylor on the right wing and dinks the ball to the far post where Beattie is unmarked - but he heads over! Another wasted chance.
    • 64' Tuncay picks up the ball in the centre circle and makes a driving run all the way into the Stoke box. He shoots when he's just been knocked off balance and hios effort skews wide. Brilliant run though.
    • 61' The ball falls to Beattie, who shoots over from just three yards out! A great chance for the Stoke striker there.
    • 59' Another big chance for Boro! A Gary O'Neil free-kick bobbles right through a crowded Stoke area to Tuncay at the far post. The Turk controls nicely but shoots into the side netting. The angle was tight - should he have squared the ball?
    • 57' Great save by Sorensen! The Stoke defence backed off Gary O'Neil way too much on the edge of the box. O'Neil shot low and right-footed towards the bottom left-hand corner of Sorensen's goal, but the Dane made a crucial save to turn it behind for a corner.
    • 43' The resulting free-kick is lofted by Downing into the Stoke box, where Huth is lurking unmarked at the far post - but the defender comically closes his eyes as he goes to head it and misses the ball completely. Good chance, woeful effort.
    • 32' Tuncay curls a lovely right-footed shot which whistles just over. Great effort from the edge of the box on the left by the Turk.
    • 15' Tuncay is sent through on goal. He's one-on-one with the keeper - but Sorensen saves at the Boro man's feet.
    • 13' Good chance for Boro. They work the ball to Downing on the left, who delivers a beauty of a cross on to the head of McMahon bombing into the box. The defender heads the ball powerfully at goal - but straight at Sorensen, who saves.
    • 6' Great save! Delap's throw is headed out then back into the six-yard box for Beattie, who stabs the ball goalwards from point-blank range. But Jones in the Boro goal gets a vital hand to it to send the ball behind for a corner.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Lee Mason

  • Stoke City

    Manager: Tony Pulis

    Captain: Danny Higginbotham

    Starting line-up

    • T. Sorensen
    • A. Wilkinson Substitution Out (46′)
    • R. Shawcross Goal
    • A. Diagne-Faye
    • D. Higginbotham
    • L. Lawrence Substitution Out (82′)
    • G. Whelan Yellow Card
    • S. Diao Substitution Out (50′)
    • R. Delap
    • J. Beattie Yellow Card
    • R. Fuller Yellow Card

    Subs

    • A. Faye
    • S. Simonsen
    • M. Etherington Substitution In50′
    • I. Sonko
    • M. Sidibe Substitution In82′
    • S. Kelly Substitution In46′
    • H. Camara

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Middlesbrough

    Manager: Gareth Southgate

    Captain: Stewart Downing

    Starting line-up

    • B. Jones
    • A. McMahon Substitution Out (80′)
    • R. Huth
    • D. Wheater
    • A. Taylor
    • M. Shawky
    • E. Pogatetz Yellow Card
    • G. O'Neil
    • S. Downing
    • M. King Substitution Out (55′)
    • S. Tuncay

    Subs

    • J. Arca
    • J. Hoyte Substitution In80′
    • R. Turnbull
    • A. Johnson
    • A. Alves Substitution In55′
    • J. Grounds
    • M. Emnes

    Injured

    • C. Riggott
    • D. Digard

    Suspended

    • M. Bates

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  1. The next season is going to be a cracking season for­ football. With the new promotions this should
    be an­ interesting time.

    From Free bet www.freebets.co.za, on Tue 2 Jun 6:23PM

  2. shawcross is luckey this time

    From Matthew, on Mon 30 Mar 4:38PM

  3. go on stoke we are stayin up we are stayin up

    From andrew b, on Sat 28 Mar 6:48PM

  4. nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

    im sporting­ chestierfield
    nnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    From kierantom99, on Sat 28 Mar 7:36AM

  5. southgate wrecked the boro team let all the good­ players go brought in inferier players to replace them­ did he realy think we could compete never in a month of­ sundays go now you might have gibbo but more­ importantley you not got the crowd do honrable thing­ and just go you just a looser

    From Terry G, on Mon 23 Mar 12:32PM

  6. we are stoke we are stoke we are stoke

    From c.royals, on Sun 22 Mar 1:49PM

  7. eric g, boro are absolutely rubbish, who wud pay to see­ players who cant even accurately hit the cross bar

    From benwhitehead, on Sun 22 Mar 1:28PM

  8. Well done Stoke and hope you stay up. There's only­ one Jimmy Greenoff

    From Its me, on Sat 21 Mar 6:44PM

  9. omd i just love stoke i hpe they stay up

    From Ademola, on Sat 21 Mar 6:16PM

  10. omg! we cant even beat stoke. were deffo going down,­ though we can beat liverpool 2 - 0

    From Ian, on Sat 21 Mar 6:06PM

  11. southgate hiding behind the defenders that are playing­ as midfielders very poor management team selections­ again how many more times he gonna pick square pegs­ for rpund holes when we get relegated southgate must­ take all the blame he picks the team and this season he­ picked the wronr team on nearlly every match he got to­ go he ghotm us relegated with his defensive teams­ never worked but he never learned

    From Terry G, on Sat 21 Mar 5:15PM

  12. well done stoke just keep grinding out the results.­ premiership next season YES INDEED

    From RICHARD, on Sat 21 Mar 5:05PM

  13. NO BORO GOING DOWN

    From simon.block10, on Sat 21 Mar 5:02PM

  14. well done stoke

    From jenny42uktv, on Sat 21 Mar 5:01PM

  15. Thanks Gareth close the door behind you

    From Michael, on Sat 21 Mar 4:58PM

  16. HAHA BORO = LOSERS

    From realmilanpool, on Sat 21 Mar 4:57PM

  17. Well done Stoke Come on you potters get up that­ table!!!!

    From S P, on Sat 21 Mar 4:57PM

  18. "Alves fails to get a crucial touch..." how­ many times have we heard that before !!!

    From Al B, on Sat 21 Mar 4:56PM

  19. yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss

    From JULIE, on Sat 21 Mar 4:50PM

  20. niice i see goals scored everywhere

    From proofltd, on Sat 21 Mar 4:49PM
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