Stoke City team news vs Ipswich as Ashley Phillips named captain for first time
CommentsSportPeter Smith Stoke City reporter18:56, 10 Mar 2026Mark Robins has made five changes to the Stoke City starting XI for tonight's home match against Ipswich (8pm).
Fit-again Junior Tchamadeu makes his first start since mid-December while Eric Bocat is fine to start on the left. Maksym Talovierov returns at centre-half.
Tomas Rigo starts in midfield alongside Tatsuki Seko while Million Manhoef and Milan Smit are back in the forward department alongside Jesurun Rak-Sakyi and Bae Junho.
Sorba Thomas serves a one-game suspension for a controversial red card picked up at Swansea on Saturday while Ben Gibson, Steven Nzonzi and Lamine Cisse also drop out of the side.
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Ben Pearson misses out with illness. Loan defender Ashley Phillips will captain Stoke for the first time.
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Frank Fielding, Nzonzi and Gibson are at one end of a wide spectrum in terms of experience on the bench. Under-21s players Syd Agina, Pijus Otegbayo, Jerome Osei and Chinonso Chibueze are aslo among the subs.
Stoke: Simkin, Tchamadeu, Bocat, Phillips, Talovierov, Rigo, Seko, Rak-Sakyi, Manhoef, Junho, Smit. Subs: Fielding, Agina, Otegbayo, Gibson, Kelly, Nzonzi, Osei, Chibueze, Cisse.
Ipswich: Walton, Furlong, O'Shea, Kipre, Davis, Matusiwa, Taylor, Burns, Mehmeti, Clarke, Azon. Subs: Palmer, Johnson, Greaves, Neil, Cajuste, McAteer, Walle Egeli, Akpom, Hirst.
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