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  1. No reason to suggest why Stoke cannot bounce back

    View from the press box graphic reading Mark Elliott, BBC Stoke and a yellow BBC microphoneBBC Sport
    Stoke players react in dismay after a chance against Middlesbrough goes beggingGetty Images

    Errors were Stoke's undoing in a game in which they tried to go toe to toe with Middlesbrough and came up short.

    Stoke should have had a penalty in the first half when Jeremy Sarmiento hauled down Djibril Soumare and Junior Tchamadeu missed a good chance when he raced through on goal in the second.

    On another day they might have won by the odd goal in several or taken at least a point but this time it was not to be.

    The first 10 games have given us a decent idea of where Stoke sit in the Championship.

    They have lost to Swansea, Southampton, Wolves and Middlesbrough who are, along with West Ham, probably the five teams to beat when it comes to automatic promotion.

    Against the rest, they have had nothing but good results, suggesting they are right to aim to finish in the lower half of the top eight.

    As a team that is still improving, that is not a bad position to be in and they have a great chance to further enhance those projections over the next month.

    Games at Derby County, Blackburn Rovers and Portsmouth around home games against Bristol City and Preston North End provide a run of fixtures that could yield a double figure haul in terms of points.

    A run of five wins in six unbeaten games may be over but there is no reason to suggest they should not bounce back and put another sequence of positive results together.

    Defeat by Boro is one to learn and move on from.

  2. A man holding a board with several poppy designs featuring a poppy combined with a feature associated with Staffordshire. They are laid on a black surface. The man is standing in front of a red fire engine.

  3. Middlesbrough striker Will Lankshear celebrates his 10th goal of the season - eight of which have come in the league

  4. A police cordon in place on a residential road, with an police car parked across it

  5. A police mugshot of a man with dark brown hair and beard. He is positioned against a light coloured background.

  6. A woman with black hair in standing against a wall with white bricks. She is wearing a dark-coloured top and smiling for the photograph.

  7. Pick of the stats: Stoke City v Middlesbrough

    Stoke City and Middlesbrough club badgesOpta

    Two of the Championship's in-form sides will meet when Stoke City welcome Middlesbrough to the bet365 Stadium on Tuesday night.

    After losing their opening three matches of the season, the Potters are unbeaten since then with five wins from six (D1), including three victories in a row.

    During that impressive run, Stoke have climbed from bottom to fourth in the table.

    Meanwhile, second-placed Boro are unbeaten in their past seven games (W4 D3) and have lost just once so far this season.

    • Stoke have lost three of their past four league games against Middlesbrough (D1), more than in their previous eight beforehand (W3 D3 L2).

    • Middlesbrough have won both of their previous two away league games against Stoke, and are looking to win three in a row for the very first time.

    • Stoke are looking to win four consecutive home league games for the first time since April 2014 in the Premier League.

    • Middlesbrough have only lost one of their past 10 away games in the Championship (W3 D6), a 1-2 defeat at Blackburn in August.

    • Mark Robins has only won more Championship games as a manager against Millwall (9) than Middlesbrough (8), although he has lost two of his three against them with Stoke (D1).

  8. A police car with two uniformed officers stood near it. There are houses and a road behind them with a St George's flag flying. A green sign reading "Littlewood Road" is in the foreground against a fence

  9. Three police officers are standing on a road with grass verges and houses in the distance. There is blue and white police tape across the road.

  10. 🎧 'Next away day, we're coming'

    A Cold Wet Tuesday Night: 'Next away day, we're coming'

    The latest episode of BBC Radio Stoke's A Cold Wet Tuesday Night podcast is out now.

    Lucas Yeomans and Louis Moult discuss Stoke's win at Bolton Wanderers to go six games unbeaten.

    Listen above or on BBC Sounds here - and don't forget to subscribe to get each episode into your My Sounds feed.

    Listen on BBC Sounds

  11. A tall man and short women both looking at the camera smiling. They are stood in front of a shelf of various food and drink items.

  12. Vehicles on a dual carriageway approach a roundabout. A green road sign signals traffic to turn left for Stafford and Uttoxeter on the A510 and services and carry straight on for the M6 and Stoke on the A50.

  13. Doug Loft wearing a white Port Vale shirt

  14. A road with houses on either side. There is a hedgerow on the left hand side and there is a parked car on the right hand side as well as one approaching the camera.

  15. A marked police vehicle blocks the entrance to a residential street that has been sealed off with police tape and traffic cones. Semi-detached houses and parked cars line the road, while the cordon extends further down the street under a cloudy sky.

  16. 'Stoke never looked like losing despite red card'

    BBC Sport's view from the press box banner, which reads 'Mark Elliott, BBC Radio Stoke' with a yellow and black BBC Sport microphone on the right side of the graphic
    Stoke City players, wearing their green and khaki away shirt, with Ben Wilmot in the centre of the shot shouting, celebrate their second goal at Bolton WanderersShutterstock

    When Stoke went down to 10 men with 70 minutes left on the clock at Bolton, it looked as though their unbeaten run was in real danger of coming to an abrupt end.

    But in truth, the biggest compliment they can be given is that even a man down they never really looked likely to lose once they'd taken the lead against the run of play just before half-time.

    Lamine Cisse worked relentlessly hard, held the ball up brilliantly at times and took his goal well - and in the second half his team-mates managed the game excellently.

    Ben Wilmot's header from a set piece was the perfect goal for a shorthanded team to score to double the lead and Cisse and Luca Bombino could have added another.

    They defended well after giving up two very good early chances, one of which was superbly saved by Viktor Johansson and were rightly roared on by a raucous away following throughout.

    Stoke entertain Middlesbrough in midweek as an equal at the right end of the Championship table.

    It will be another stiff test of this new team's credentials but if the evidence of the past six games is anything to go by, they have the quality to get another positive result.

  17. A dark landscape in Shropshire with purple and blue skies above because of the Northern Lights

  18. A close-up photograph of a cow standing behind a fence in a field. Several other cows are grazing in the background beneath a cloudy sky.

  19. A woman with long brown hair, wearing a magenta-coloured jumpsuit, sits cross-legged on a rug and is blowing bubbles. Two children are on the floor with her, a boy who is kneeling, and a younger girl who is crawling and reaching for the bubbles. A children's play kitchen and a shelf with toys on are behind them.

  20. Robins' delight as his 10-man Stoke beat Bolton

    Mark Robins looks on from the dug-out and he was thrilled by 10-man Stoke's win at BoltonGetty Images

    Stoke City manager Mark Robins

    Stoke City manager Mark Robins spoke to BBC Radio Stoke after their 10 men won 2-1 at Bolton to climb to fourth in the Championship.

    For a written selection of his quotes, click here.

    Robins: ‘Be hungry for that, be greedy for that’

  21. A police cordon blocks access to a residential street lined with semi-detached houses. Blue-and-white police tape stretches across the road in the foreground, while traffic cones and a person can be seen further down the street.

  22. A photo showing the backs of two men in orange hi-viz jackets which say Network Rail on the back of them. They also wear white hard hats. In the background, two men are in a cherry picker.

  23. A view of Crewe Market

  24. A composite image of three people: a woman with long brown hair and a blue and white lanyard standing in a garden; a man with black hair and beard standing with an apron in a tent with union jack bunting behind him; and a black-and-white shot of a woman dancing, wearing a black leather coat.