New boy scores as Stoke City host behind closed doors clash with Notts County
Luca Bombino scored the afternoon's only goal as Stoke City played out two 60-minute halves against Notts County.
The Potters welcomed Martin Paterson's League One squad to Clayton Wood for some action to help keep up sharpness during the extended three-week international break.
Mark Robins used two different XIs; a predominantly senior team for the first hour before bringing in several youth players for the second. The first finished 0-0 before Bombino got on the scoresheet to settle the second.
For Notts it was a chance to get some minutes into fit-again Max Sanders, who joined from Crewe Alexandra in the summer but is yet to make his debut due to a calf injury.
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Stoke are stepping up their training ahead of a Championship return away at Bolton Wanderers next Saturday, October 10.
There are 10 players out on international duty, including Luke Graham, who made his senior Scotland debut as a substitute in a 2-0 win over North Macedonia yesterday. That is expected to have triggered one of the add-on clauses in the deal that took Graham from Dundee to Stoke in the summer.
Junior Tchamadeu came off the bench for Cameroon as they won 1-0 away at Ivory Coast. in a friendly while Bae Junho helped South Korea under-23s win the Asian Cup with a 1-0 win over hosts Japan.
Bosun Lawal is with the Republic of Ireland squad for a Nations League clash with Israel in Serbia while there are fixtures on Monday and Tuesday for players to get through before returning to the UK. Ethan Galbraith and Justin Devenny's Northern Ireland host Georgia in Belfast; Viktor Johansson's Sweden are away against Romania; Tommy SImkin's England under-21s are away against Ireland; Graham's Scotland take on Slovenia in Glasgow; and Robert Bozenik and Tomas Rigo's Slovakia are away in Moldova.
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