Championship · Matchday 12 Match report

Stoke City 0-0 Bristol City: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Stoke City

0-0Full time

Bristol City

Saturday 24 October 2026, 14:00 UTC bet365 Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Our picks against the result

8 of 12 right

Result Bristol City win39% 0-0
Double chance Stoke City or Bristol City (12)72% 0-0
Goals over/under 2.5 Under 2.553% 0 goals
More corners Stoke City45% Bristol City (5-6)
Yellow cards Above average 3 yellow cards · league 2.7
Yellow cards 3 yellow cards 3.5 Under63% 4.5 Under80% 5.5 Under91%
Corners Around average 11 corners · league 10.4
Corners 11 corners 8.5 Over65% 9.5 Over54% 10.5 Under57%

Match stats

Stoke City Bristol City

0 Goals 0
1 Yellow cards 2
0 Red cards 0
5 Corners 6

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Stoke City vs Bristol City opens Matchday 12 of the Championship on Saturday 24 October 2026, and our model's result pick is a Bristol City win, with the double chance covering either side to take the points without a draw.

Why this pick?

Our model goes with Bristol City, mainly because its long-run strength rating, built on xG, places them slightly above a Stoke City side it rates clearly below the Championship average. The most obvious counterweight is home advantage, with our goal model's reading of the matchup adding another note of caution. The pick holds because Stoke's big chances and touches in the opposition box over their last five matches sit well short of the league norm, while Bristol City keep the clear openings they concede to a level beneath the average too, so the home side's route to goal looks limited. It is a narrow call.

Form guide

Stoke City

W 1-0 at Derby County (A) Championship · 17 Oct
L 2-3 vs Middlesbrough (H) Championship · 13 Oct
W 2-1 at Bolton Wanderers (A) Championship · 10 Oct
W 2-1 vs Sheffield United (H) Championship · 19 Sep
W 2-1 at Watford (A) Championship · 12 Sep

Bristol City

L 0-1 vs Sheffield United (H) Championship · 17 Oct
L 0-1 vs Blackburn Rovers (H) Championship · 13 Oct
D 1-1 at Charlton Athletic (A) Championship · 10 Oct
W 1-0 vs Watford (H) Championship · 18 Sep
L 0-1 vs Lincoln City (H) Championship · 15 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

Stoke CityBristol City

Attack 17 35 1.6 goals per match this season1.1 goals per match this season

Defence 39 52 1.5 conceded per match this season1.4 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Championship clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.