Hello and welcome to our live coverage as Stoke City and Maccabi Tel Aviv do battle at the Britannia Stadium.

FULL-TIME: A sedate second half - but Stoke had already done the damage. Terrific result for the Potters. Shame to lose Jerome to a red card, but they end the day on top of

Wilkinson cuts out Dahan's attempted through ball to the right, and the visitors have a throw.

Yeini and Mikha combine on the edge of the Maccabi area, looking for a way through - but Upson clears.

Wilkinson tries a shot from 25 yards - it won't make the highlight reel. He's never scored for Stoke, and it showed.

Four minutes of stoppages to play in this encounter.

Maccabi in possession on the halfway line, but Stoke still pressing and harrying well. The game drifting to its conclusion.

Konate muscled off the ball in the box - the story of Maccabi's attempts to get on the scoresheet in this encounter.

Whitehead makes his way down to the byline, but his chipped cutback to Jones is too much for the Caribbean striker to control.

Wilkinson brings down Konate to hand the visitors a free-kick.

Next up for Stoke will be a trip to Israel on November 3. Maccabi should be a different prospect in Tel Aviv.

JONES CLOSE! Perhaps it should have been four after a super ball from Palacios - delicious, weighted through the middle - finds Jones in space. He hits it first time, and Haimov makes a save.

The Maccabi faithful are still in full voice - they've not had much to cheer tonight, but they've come to Stoke in good numbers.

Chipped ball forward from Shotton is aimless - a rare misjudgment from Stoke's player of the match.

One more Stoke change - Wilson Palacios replaces Etherington.

And a yellow for Colautti as well, who offers his opinion on the decision. The referee has punished every little bit of dissent - but he's been consistent with it too.

Yellow card for the new arrival Mikha, who pushed down Shotton and as soon as he was penalised he kicked the ball away in dissent.

Etherington takes a corner, but for once Haimov does well to move to the far post and claim a confident catch.

Stoke swap Huth for Walters - a defender for a striker. Nice move from Pulis - why not finish on the front foot?

Mikha replaces Israilevich - the final change for the visitors.

KONATE WASTES ONE! The ball broke to him after Vered's cross was deflected, and he skied his shot when he really ought to have hit the target at least.