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0¹ MARC ROCA beat three Rochdale players and blasted a great chance just beyond the near post. 2¹ GOAL!! A BURNER run down the left resulted in a nice cross for RODRIGO FERNANDES to fire in. (1-0 Rochdale) 4¹ The ref books OHASHI. 9¹ OHASHI made space on the left and touched the ball to CAMPBELL who fired the ball wide. 12¹ RUIZ booked by the referee for a poor challenge. 13¹ CAMPBELL booked. 14¹ GOAL!! Unlucky CAMPBELL hit the woodwork before MARC ROCA rifled the ball into the back of the net as LATIBEAUDIERE failed to clear. (1-1) 20¹ RAMAZANI placed a right foot shot over from just outside the area. 27¹ OSMAJIC booked for violent conduct. 28¹ A pin-point pass bobbled toward OHASHI and his right foot shot raced narrowly over. 29¹ BIRD turned RUIZ but knocked the ball into the arms of HORVATH. 34¹ GOAL!! An energetic BIRD ran down the left wing and touched the ball back for RAMAZANI to tuck home. (2-1 Stoke City) 46¹ HÉLDER COSTA headed the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area. 47¹ A cross from RUIZ left SAKAMOTO in lots of space but he snapped at his shot. 4² RUIZ headed wide. 5² NETO BORGES booked for a cynical tackle. 14² The motionless 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from O'CONNELL fell just wide. 17² A tame shot from OHASHI trickled agonisingly wide. 20² A lovely effort from OHASHI scraped the upright. 21² OHASHI fluffed an easy chance. 23² WEIMANN waltzed past WILMOT and stabbed a weak shot over the bar. 28² THOMPSON beat RUIZ and placed the ball to RAMAZANI who fumbled his shot wide. 32² GOAL!! RAMAZANI hit a beautiful thirty yard shot past the bemused 'keeper. (3-1 Stoke City) 37² RAMAZANI rattled an easy chance past the near post.

Stoke City   League position: 15 Home league form: LLLW Overall league form: XLWLLLLW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Jack BONHAM 7  1 7  Ethan HORVATH Dujon STERLING 6½ 2 7  Patrick BURNER NETO BORGES 6½ 3 6½ Jay DASILVA (c)MARC ROCA Junqué 7½ 4 7½ Tatsuhiro SAKAMOTO Ben WILMOT 6½ 5 7  Joel LATIBEAUDIERE Jack O'CONNELL 7  6 6½ Bashir HUMPHREYS Jordan THOMPSON 7  7 6½ RODRIGO Francisco FERNANDES Largie RAMAZANI 7½ 8 7  HÉLDER Wander COSTA (p)Tyrese CAMPBELL 5½ 9 6  Milutin OSMAJIC(p) (f)Max BIRD 7  10 6  Marcel RUIZ(f) Yuki OHASHI 6½ 11 5½ Andreas WEIMANN(c) Manager Marc ALBRIGHTON    12    Sam BELL James TOMKINS 6½ 13    Loris KARIUS Connor TAYLOR    14    Christian FASSNACHT Ben FOLAMI 7  15 6½ Umaro EMBALÓ Josh TYMON    16    DAVID COSTAS Cordal

Rochdale   League position: 12 Away league form: WLWW Overall league form: LWWLWWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Stoke City 3 Rochdale 1 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 24,377, Stadium: bet365, Referee: Neil Swarbrick 5½) Marc Roca 14¹, Ramazani 34¹, Ramazani 32² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Rodrigo Fernandes 2¹ CampbellóFolami 16², WilmotóTomkins 24² DasilvaóEmbaló 14²     Ohashi 4¹, Campbell 13¹, Neto Borges 5² Ruiz 12¹, Osmajic 27¹ 0 5 11 11 0 1 4 1 9 5 13 6 1 0 57% 43% ¶ Man of the match: Largie Ramazani ¶