Stoke City 1-3 Middlesbrough — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Championship, 25 Feb 2025

📅25/02/2025 · 🕒22:45 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 0-1 2nd Score 1-0
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
35%
2.84
Draw
25%
3.28
Away
40%
2.23
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
52%
1.86
Over 2.5
48%
1.86
Both Teams to Score
Yes
47%
1.7
No OUR CALL
53%
2.03
Total Goals
0-1 Goal EV+ ✗
29%
3.18
2-3 Goals
40%
1.76
4-5 Goals
22%
3.46
6+ Goals
9%
13.6
Value flag · 0-1 Goal at 3.18 — our 29% vs market 25.0%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
18%
4.59
1/2
8%
25.5
1/X
7%
13.4
X/1
10%
6.47
X/2
11%
5.06
X/X
10%
4.65
2/1
6%
31.5
2/2
21%
3.14
2/X
9%
12.95
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our call
BTTS No — 53%
Fair price · no betting value
The bookmaker priced every market fairly — no dependable value at these odds, so skipping is the disciplined play.
Our call is our best estimate of the outcome; a value flag is a separate, rarer judgement about the price.
STRENGTH Under 2.5 — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
34%
Home Win
32%
+2.7pp
25%
Draw
27%
-1.8pp
40%
Away Win
41%
-0.9pp
52%
Under 2.5
50%
+1.9pp
48%
Over 2.5
50%
-1.9pp
47%
BTTS Yes
55%
-7.7pp
53%
BTTS No
45%
+7.7pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Stoke City EU Bookmakers 35%
Head to Head
AWAY Middlesbrough EU Bookmakers 45%
-2% / -6% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -3% / -3%
1.15/1.22 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.47/0.99
-17% / +6% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +23% / -10%
41% Ball Possession 59%
12 Total Shots 12
4 Shots on Target 5
5 Corners 6
248 · 69% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 415 · 80%
19.1 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 24.7
20.2 Crosses 17.9
2.1 Yellow Cards 1.7
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Stoke City
3W-2D-1L
AWAY Middlesbrough
2.00 Avg Goals (FT) 0.83
1.18 xG 1.56
42% Ball Possession 58%
10 Total Shots 14
4 Shots on Target 4
4 Corners 6
294 Passes 438
78% Pass Accuracy 82%
19 Box Touches 25
16 Crosses 17
3 Yellow Cards 2
28.09.2024 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 2-0 HT 1-0 Stoke City Stoke City İNCL
27.08.2024 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 0-5 HT 0-1 Stoke City Stoke City İNLK
02.03.2024 Stoke City Stoke City 2-0 HT 1-0 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough İNCL
28.10.2023 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 0-2 HT 0-2 Stoke City Stoke City İNCL
14.03.2023 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 1-1 HT 1-1 Stoke City Stoke City İNCL
17.08.2022 Stoke City Stoke City 2-2 HT 1-1 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough İNCL
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Stoke City
1-3
AWAY Middlesbrough
1.15 xG 2.28
47% Ball Possession 53%
12 Total Shots 16
3 Shots on Target 6
5 Corners 1
347 Passes 470
85% Pass Accuracy 87%
20 Box Touches 18
23 Crosses 6
2 Yellow Cards 2
POST-MATCH Stoke City vs Middlesbrough
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Middlesbrough beat Stoke City 3-1 away from home. The game was level at 1-1 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

We called this one close before kick-off — 34% / 25% / 40% — and on the day Middlesbrough made the difference.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 48% and both teams to score was close to even at 47%.

On the day, Stoke City had 47% of the ball to Middlesbrough's 53%, shots finished 12-16, expected goals 1.15 to 2.28.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Stoke City had the better of it with 3 wins, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 2.00 goals for Stoke City and 0.83 for Middlesbrough.

What was the final score of Stoke City vs Middlesbrough?

Stoke City 1-3 Middlesbrough in the England - Championship on 25/02/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Stoke City vs Middlesbrough?

Before kick-off our model rated an Middlesbrough win the most likely single outcome at about 40%, with the full match-result split Stoke City 34%, draw 25%, Middlesbrough 40%. The final score 1-3 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Middlesbrough) — while Under 2.5, BTTS No went the other way.

✓ Match Result (Middlesbrough) ✗ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS No
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