Stoke City 1-3 Arsenal: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 27 February 2010

Result

Stoke City 1-3 Arsenal

Premier League · Saturday 27 February 2010, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Stoke City 1-3 Arsenal: match report

Stoke City were beaten by Arsenal 1-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 February 2010. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Danny Pugh opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Stoke City's goal came from Danny Pugh (8'). Arsenal scored through Nicklas Bendtner (32'), Cesc Fàbregas (89', penalty) and Thomas Vermaelen (90').

Discipline: Stoke City received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Arsenal received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Stoke City were 11th on 34 points from 26 and Arsenal 3rd on 55 points from 27. Stoke City went on to finish that season 11th with 47 points, and Arsenal 3rd with 75.

Stoke City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Arsenal in a 4-1-4-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Stoke City win, 0 draws and 2 for Arsenal.

Going into the match Stoke City's last five read W-D-D-W-D and Arsenal's W-W-L-L-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Danny PughStoke City · 1-0
  • 32'Goal · Nicklas BendtnerArsenal · 1-1
  • 62'Yellow card · A. SongArsenal
  • 66'Red card · Ryan ShawcrossStoke City
  • 89'Penalty goal · Cesc FàbregasArsenal · 1-2
  • 90'Goal · Thomas VermaelenArsenal · 1-3

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Stoke City 1, draws 0, Arsenal 2.

Team news

Stoke City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Thomas Sorensen, Abdoulaye Faye, Danny Higginbotham, Andy Griffin, Danny Collins, Andy Wilkinson, Salif Diao, Mamady Sidibé, Sanli Tuncay, Matthew Etherington

Arsenal line-up (4-1-4-1)

Almunia, Bacary Sagna, Gaël Clichy, Emmanuel Eboué, Cesc Fàbregas, Samir Nasri, Aaron Ramsey, Alex Song, Nicklas Bendtner, Thomas Vermaelen, Sulzeer Campbell