Scott Parker's Burnley will hope to get back to winning ways in the new year when they welcome Stoke City to Turf Moor on Wednesday in their 25th Championship game of the season.

Match preview

The Clarets created two big chances in comparison to Middlesbrough's one, but Sunday's clash was a fairly timid game, with the sides producing just four shots on target between them.

Parker's team have had issues in the final third this season given their record of 1.3 goals per match is only the division's joint seventh-best return, and their record of 3.6 shots on target per game is the league's seventh-worst tally.

To their credit, no other club has kept more than their 15 clean sheets, and they also have the Championship's outright best defensive record having only conceded nine times.

Burnley's form of late has been largely excellent considering the club are unbeaten in their last 11 games, winning seven matches, including three of their past four.

It should also be noted that the Clarets beat Stoke 2-0 in the reverse fixture on November 30, a match in which Burnley created five big chances compared to Stoke's one.

The hosts have also been difficult to beat at Turf Moor given they have not been defeated in their 11 most recent fixtures at home, though they have been held to a stalemate on four occasions in their last seven at home.

As for their opponents, Ryan Shawcross has taken interim charge of Stoke and oversaw a 1-0 win against fourth-placed Sunderland on Sunday, a match in which the Potters scored a 92nd-minute winner thanks to Thomas Cannon.

Stoke faced 19 shots from inside the box against Sunderland, and Shawcross acknowledged that the result could have been different, saying: ""We rode our luck at times and it would be naive of me to say we didn't but I knew that would happen. I wanted us to press and get after the ball and I knew if we got it slightly wrong they would cut through us."

The visitors' victory was their first in their last 10 outings, with the team having lost five of the prior six matches to their game on Sunday.

Stoke's win against Sunderland was also the first time they had not conceded at least two goals in their past seven fixtures.

The Potters have been poor away from home given they have been defeated in seven of their last 10 away games, winning just once while only scoring seven times in that period.

Burnley possible starting lineup:

Trafford; Roberts, Egan-Riley, Esteve, Humphreys; Cullen, Laurent; Anthony, Brownhill, Mejbri; Flemming

Stoke City possible starting lineup:

Johansson; Tchamadeu, Phillips, Wilmot, Stevens; Seko, Burger; Koumas, Moran, Jun-Ho; Cannon