{"id":265617,"date":"2026-01-30T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265617\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:07:09","slug":"preview-stoke-city-vs-southampton-team-news-lineups-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265617\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | Stoke City vs Southampton – team news, lineups, predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stoke City<\/a> and Southampton<\/a> face each other this Saturday at the Bet365 Stadium for matchweek 30 of the EFL Championship<\/a>. The match will be broadcast live at 12:30 on Sky Sports Football.<\/p>\n

Stoke City have picked up 42 points and currently lie in 10th position. In their last fixture, Mark Robins<\/a>‘s team shared the spoils 1-1<\/a> with Birmingham City (EFL Championship 2025\/26).<\/p>\n

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Southampton have won 37 points to date and are placed in 15th position. Last time out, Tonda Eckert<\/a>‘s team drew 1-1<\/a> against Portsmouth (EFL Championship 2025\/26).<\/p>\n

The last meeting between the two teams ended with Stoke City winning 2-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Predicted lineups<\/p>\n

Stoke City: Tommy Simkin<\/a>, Maksim Taloverov<\/a>, Steven Nzonzi<\/a>, Ashley Phillips<\/a>, Eric Bocat<\/a>, Tatsuki Seko<\/a>, Tom\u00e1s Rigo<\/a>, Million Manhoef<\/a>, Bae Jun-ho<\/a>, Sorba Thomas<\/a>, Lamine Ciss\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n

Southampton: Daniel Peretz<\/a>, Welington<\/a>, Taylor Harwood-Bellis<\/a>, Jack Stephens<\/a>, James Bree<\/a>, Flynn Downes<\/a>, Caspar Jander<\/a>, Ross Stewart<\/a>, Finn Azaz<\/a>, Kuryu Matsuki<\/a>, Adam Armstrong<\/a><\/p>\n

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SouthamptonLast starting XIs<\/p>\n

Stoke City ( vs Birmingham City 2026-01-24): Tommy Simkin<\/a>, Sorba Thomas<\/a>, Ashley Phillips<\/a>, Maksim Taloverov<\/a>, Eric Bocat<\/a>, Tatsuki Seko<\/a>, Steven Nzonzi<\/a>, Million Manhoef<\/a>, Tom\u00e1s Rigo<\/a>, Bae Jun-ho<\/a>, Lamine Ciss\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n

Southampton ( vs Portsmouth 2026-01-25): Daniel Peretz<\/a>, James Bree<\/a>, Jack Stephens<\/a>, Taylor Harwood-Bellis<\/a>, Welington<\/a>, Caspar Jander<\/a>, Flynn Downes<\/a>, Kuryu Matsuki<\/a>, Finn Azaz<\/a>, L\u00e9o Scienza<\/a>, Adam Armstrong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stoke City and Southampton face each other this Saturday at the Bet365 Stadium for matchweek 30 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31245,139118,83965,67946,31241,139124,31250,139128,85,46,139119,139121,139127,139129,139120,139126,139125,139130,139123,31239,105,139122,139117],"class_list":{"0":"post-265617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-adam-armstrong","9":"tag-ashley-phillips","10":"tag-birmingham-city","11":"tag-daniel-peretz","12":"tag-efl-championship","13":"tag-finn-azaz","14":"tag-flynn-downes","15":"tag-gavin-bazunu","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-jack-stephens","19":"tag-james-bree","20":"tag-junior-tchamadeu","21":"tag-lewis-baker","22":"tag-mark-robins","23":"tag-million-manhoef","24":"tag-ross-stewart","25":"tag-scienza","26":"tag-sorba-thomas","27":"tag-southampton","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-steven-nzonzi","30":"tag-stoke-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}