Match Centre: Stoke City vs Birmingham City
Player of the match Bosun Lawal 8.5
GolVolt rating 1.5GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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4 → 2
Stoke City climb 2 places in the table. Birmingham City: 10 → 11.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Few chances, settled by 81′.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 81′.The result was clear early — little to hold on for. Drama: 3.2 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Lawal scored the winner.Solid performances, no single big hero. Heroes: 6.5 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Not much was at stake yet. Stakes: 2.2 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Few chances. Quality of play: 0.1 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 1.5more watchable than 15% of Championship matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
1 goal4 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 21' Goal: Bosun Lawalassist: Cresswell1:0
- Half-time · 1:0
- 59' 2 substitutionsDucksch for DoyleOsayi-Samuel for Laird
- 60' SubstitutionKoumas for Roberts
- 71' SubstitutionBae for Rigo
- 77' Junior Tchamadeuyellow card
- 79' SubstitutionFuruhashi for Stansfield
- 80' Ben Pearsonyellow card
- 82' SubstitutionSeko for Pearson
- 83' Sorba Thomasyellow card
- 84' SubstitutionLeonard for Neumann
- 90+3' 2 substitutionsBocat for CresswellCissé for Manhoef
- 90+4' Bright Osayi-Samuelyellow card
- Full-time · 1:0
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Stoke City
Birmingham City
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Stoke City
- 13 Jack Bonham GK —
- 17 Eric-Junior Bocat DEF on
- 26 Ashley Phillips DEF —
- 40 Maksym Taloverov DEF —
- 10 Jun-ho Bae MID on
- 12 Tatsuki Seko MID on
- 14 Jamie Paul Donley MID —
- 11 Róbert Boženík ATT —
- 29 Lamine Cissé ATT on
Birmingham City
- 25 James Beadle GK —
- 6 Jack Robinson DEF —
- 26 Bright Osayi-Samuel DEF on
- 41 Eiran Cashin DEF —
- 12 Marc Leonard MID on
- 9 Kyogo Furuhashi ATT on
- 17 Lyndon Dykes ATT —
- 30 Lewis Koumas ATT on
- 33 Marvin Ducksch ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Bet365 Stadium, Stoke
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Stoke City Bosun Lawal
- 2. place · Stoke City Aaron Cresswell
- 3. place · Stoke City Million Manhoef
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