Match Report
Stoke City went into the game 16th in the table on 53 points; Wigan Athletic sat 24th on 39 — a 14-point gap. Wigan Athletic had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 9th in the league over the last five rounds against 24th overall. Per game in the league, Stoke City were scoring 1.2 and conceding 1.17, Wigan Athletic 0.83 and 1.41, against a competition average of 1.22 goals per team per game.
Wigan Athletic entered with three losses in a row.
The sides have met 16 times in the GioScore results database: 4 wins for Stoke City, 7 draws and 5 for Wigan Athletic, at 2.56 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 31% of meetings won.
Lyme Valley Stadium in Newcastle-under-Lyme, capacity 4,000, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 0-1.