Pick of the stats: Stoke City v Millwall

Millwall will seek to keep up the pace in the automatic promotion race as they head to Stoke on Tuesday night (19:45 BST). The Lions returned to winning ways with a 2-0 victory over QPR on Saturday and could return to second place, three points ahead of Ipswich, if Alex Neil can continue his fine winning record against his former club. The Tractor Boys, who visit Charlton on Wednesday, would however have two games in hand on Millwall and a vastly superior goal difference.

The Potters are already safe and though they have picked up just a point from their past three games, Mark Robins' side are unbeaten in six at the Bet365, earning 12 points and scoring 13 goals. Stoke have won just one of their past 14 league games against Millwall (D5 L8), a 2-0 home win in March 2022. The Potters have failed to score in 10 of these 14 games.

Millwall have won five of their past seven league games against Stoke (D2), conceding just one goal in these seven matches. Stoke are unbeaten in home league games since the start of February (W3 D3); they last recorded a longer unbeaten run in their final seven home league matches in 2018-19 (W1 D6). Millwall are unbeaten in their past seven away league games (W5 D2), their longest run since April 2018 (run of nine), while their 37 points on the road this season is their most since 2015-16 in the third tier (39).

Former Stoke manager Alex Neil has won six of his past seven league games against the Potters (L1), including both while in charge of Millwall. [BBC]