Match Centre: Stoke City vs Walsall
Player of the match Ashley Phillips 7.4
GolVolt rating 1.5GolVolt rating
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Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
No goals.
- Dramaweight 50% Penalty shoot-out, open to the end.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 5.4 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Nobody stood out. Heroes: 0.1 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% A rivalry. Stakes: 8.9 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% No goals.Few chances and few shots. 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 Carabao Cup 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
After PenaltiesWinner: Stoke City3 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- Half-time · 0:0
- 50' Tatsuki Sekoyellow card
- 55' Bosun Lawalyellow card
- 57' Priestley Farquharsonyellow card
- 63' 2 substitutionsBae for ManhoefSmith for Lawal
- 64' SubstitutionWilmot for Gibson
- 65' 2 substitutionsHollman for MaherStuttle for Gordon
- 66' SubstitutionJellis for Barrett
- 74' SubstitutionFlint for Farquharson
- 77' Substitution
- 78' Substitution
- 89' SubstitutionMubama for Boženík
- Extra Time · 0:0
- After Extra Time · 0:0
- Pens · 4:3
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Stoke City
Walsall
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Stoke City
- 34 Frank Fielding GK —
- 3 Aaron Cresswell DEF —
- 16 Ben Wilmot DEF on
- 22 Junior Tchamadeu DEF —
- 7 Sorba Thomas MID —
- 8 Lewis Baker MID —
- 10 Jun-ho Bae MID on
- 46 William Smith MID on
- 9 Divin Mubama ATT on
Walsall
- 1 Myles Roberts GK —
- 3 Mason Hancock DEF —
- 4 Aden Flint DEF on
- 33 Rico Browne DEF —
- 22 Jamie Jellis MID on
- 28 Lewis Warrington MID —
- 32 Jake Hollman MID on
- 7 Jonny Stuttle ATT on
- 9 Jamille Matt ATT —
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Bet365 Stadium, Stoke
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Stoke City Ashley Phillips
- 2. place · Stoke City Ben Gibson
- 3. place · Walsall Ronan Maher
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