Right, that’s it from me. Stick around on site for all the reports and reaction. But for now, cheerio!
Peep! PEEP!! PEEEEEEP!!! All over. Stoke go on to face Blackburn in the fifth round. Cue Mark Hughes narrative. Dale are left to concentrate on their League One promotion push.
GOAL! Rochdale 1-4 Stoke City (Walters 90+3)
A simple ball down the right wing puts Arnautovic through and his perfect low cross is economically tapped home by Walters.
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90+2 min: Dawson looks to force his way into the area and goes down a little easily on the edge of the box. Martin Atkinson is unimpressed.
90 min: There’ll be a minimum of three minutes of added time.
88 min: Dawson is named as man of the match over the Tannoy, bringing a round of boos from the Stoke fans.
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87 min: … Tanser swirls the ball into the area, but it drops to a Stoke boot.
86 min: Dale get a free-kick out on the right. Another chance to sling the ball into the box …
84 min: Rochdale are pressing as much as they can, but Stoke are just happy to pop the ball around now.
83 min: A lull.
80 min: Butland comes and flaps at a corner. Not what you need as a Stoke defender at this point.
GOAL! Rochdale 1-3 Stoke City (Bennett 78)
And, from that needless free-kick, Dale have a goal back. Stoke can’t clear, the ball drops to Bennett and he turns neatly away from Sidwell before slotting home. They’ve deserved that.
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77 min: Bardsley goes into the book for a daft challenge on Tanser down by the corner flag.
77 min: Noble-Lazarus pings an effort at goal from the free-kick – the ball moves in the air like a petrol station £1 ball but it’s a couple of yards over the bar.
76 min: Sidwell goes into the book for pulling back Dawson as the Dale midfielder batters his way forward. And Stoke make another change: Moses goes off to be replaced by Charlie Adam.
75 min: Toe-poke. Definitely toe-poke.
74 min: Toe-poke or toe-punt?
73 min: A hideous non-clearance from Lancashire lands the ball at the feet of Walters, but his toe-poked effort fizzes a couple of yards wide.
70 min: Stat!
14 - Rochdale have now conceded 14 times in their last three FA Cup games against top-tier sides. Awe.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 26, 2015
69 min: Stoke have utterly drawn Rochdale’s sting here. The Premier League side are in complete control.
67 min: “ Starting to feel a little sorry for Robbie Savage ” chuckles Fraser Thomas. Yes, the BT commentator is getting plenty of stick from the Stoke fans. He, they suggest, “looks like a girl”. Searing #bantz.
65 min: … dinked in, but met by a Stoke head.
64 min: Henderson is brought down by Ireland 30-odd yards from the Stoke goal. Central. A chance to Put It In The Mixer here for Rochdale …
GOAL! Rochdale 0-3 Stoke City (Moses 62)
This is another stunning strike. Moses beats the full-back Rafferty twice, cuts back onto his right and sends a glorious curling effort in off the far post. “We want four!” chant the Stoke fans and at the moment you’d have to say they’ll get it.
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61 min: Ireland charges down Lillis’s attempted clearance and the keeper is pretty relieved to see the ball drop kindly for him.
59 min: … Walters gets a glancing header onto Arnautovic’s delivery but the ball flashes across goal and out for a goal kick.
58 min: Walters is bundled down by Lancashire (the Rochdale player, not the entire county). Dangerous free-kick for Stoke …
57 min: And another Rochdale change: Reuben Noble-Lazarus replaces Vincenti.
55 min: Rochdale make a change: Done is replaced by former Crystal Palace striker Calvin Andrew.
54 min: The 0-2 scoreline is very harsh on the Dale. They’ve been excellent, but undone by a couple of moments of quality.
GOAL! Rochdale 0-2 Stoke City (Ireland 53)
The suckerpunch. Moses in the left channel shimmies past Eastham far too easily and his pull-back is perfect for Stephen Ireland, who taps home from five yards out. That, you’d imagine, will be that.
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51 min: Wilson lets fly from distance. It’s a decent effort but always swinging wide.
50 min: Stoke get the chance to heave a free-kick into the area, but it’s a poorly directed set-piece.
49 min: Rochdale have carried on where they left off in the first half. They’ve been much the better side for the majority of the game.
47 min: Nzonzi apparently has a groin strain, so that’s two injury concerns for Mark Hughes.
Peep! Off we go again then. Can Rochdale maintain their momentum?
Stoke have made a change at the break, with Steve Sidwell replacing Nzonzi.
Peep! PEEEP! And they are an incident-free couple of minutes.
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45 min: The impressive Camps breaks forward from midfield but can only scuff his shot at Butland. And, showing just what I know, there’ll be a minimum of two minutes added time.
43 min: Done gets into the right channel yet again and dinks an effort over Butland. The keeper, in no man’s land, gets just enough on it to keep it out. Stoke need the half-time whistle, but there’ll be a good four minutes of stoppage time I reckon.
42 min: Some inter-county banter in the terraces: “Staffordshire, [BAD WORD],[BAD WORD], [BAD WORD]. Staffordshire, [BAD WORD],[BAD WORD], [BAD WORD],” taunt the home fans.
39 min: What a chance for Rochdale! Done, ghosting between the Stoke centre-backs, is slipped by Camps and he’s through. The striker, though, pokes his effort wide of Butland’s goal.
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38 min: … but it’s straight into the meaty palms of Jack Butland.
37 min: Wilson ends up clonking Dawson in the chest with his boot after the Rochdale man nips in to nod the ball away. He’s in the book and Rochdale have a dangerous free-kick down by the corner quadrant …
36 min: Butland does well to smother a chance as Dawson looks to break clear inside the area. Rochdale are pressing here.
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34 min: … which results in Bennett prodding wide from the penalty spot.
33 min: Rafferty lofts forward and Butland makes a hash of the catch. A needless corner conceded …
32 min: Ireland replaces Bojan, who limps off down the tunnel.
31 min: … and indeed Bojan’s goose is cooked for this evening. He hobbles off and Stoke look to be preparing Stephen Ireland to replace him.
29 min: A brilliant ball from Arnautovic puts Bojan in behind but he stubs his toe into the turf painfully and tumbles down. That could be a bit nasty …
27 min: Handbags! Vicenti clatters into Moses with his studs up, prompting an angry reaction from the Stoke bench and their players. The referee didn’t give a free-kick, and there’s a bit of pushing and shoving and general squaring up. It was a bit dangerous really and Vicenti is a touch lucky to receive only a yellow, though presumably that was for the fisticuffs. Bojan also goes into the book for his part in the melee.
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26 min: Here’s a look at that Bojan strike:
Pick that one out! Bojan gives @stokecity an early lead with this stunning first-time volley. #WeAreIn https://t.co/sr1jG9Deb7
— BT Sport Football (@btsportfootball) January 26, 2015
23 min: Done this time has Stoke defenders backpeddling. Wilson and Wollscheid (a pairing that sounds a little like a posh paint company – “Ooh, I like the colour of those cupboards …” “Yes, it’s Wilson and Wollscheid’s dolphin grey …”) do enough to snuff out the chance.
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21 min: A dinked ball into the Stoke box causes consternation. Done can’t quite bring the thing under his spell and the chance disappears, but Dale have been bright in the past five minutes or so.
20 min: Henderson rumbles forward and has the Stoke centre-backs backpeddling, but his eventual shot is pulled well wide.
19 min: “Well, do you figure that Bojan has finally put the ‘Messi on a wet Tuesday in Stoke’ question to rest?” wonders Matt Turner. “Bojan, not good enough to play in the same team as Messi. Plenty good enough to do it on a cold, wet Tuesday (Monday) in Stoke (Rochdale).”
18 min: … it’s scuffed to the near post, though, and the Dale can clear.
17 min: … and Bojan forces another …
16 min: Bojan finds Arnautovic inside the Rochdale area. His touch is a tad loose but he’s forced a corner …
15 min: It’s very scrappy at the moment.
13 min: Eastham is put under pressure by his own goalkeeper, with two Stoke players closing in like jackals. They’re just about able to smuggle the ball clear, however.
11 min: Whelan finds Moses on the left, but he is well marshalled by Rafferty.
9 min: Rochdale’s heads haven’t dropped after that early blow. Dawson surges into the area and tumbles under pressure from Wollscheid. There are a few shouts for a penalty, but more in hope than expectation.
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7 min: “With a Moses in one squad and a Lazarus in the other, this is shaping up to be a clash of biblical proportions!” writes Peter Oh. Well played Peter, well played.
6 min: Spotland is rocking, but it’s the Stoke fans in full voice at the moment.
5 min:
Wow. What a hit from Bojan! On the volley, a net-scorcher from 25 yards. Ouch. 0-1.
— Iain Macintosh (@iainmacintosh) January 26, 2015
GOAL! Rochdale 0-1 Stoke City (Bojan 4)
Butland launches a halfway line free-kick into the Rochdale box. Lancashire looks to head clear but the ball drops to Bojan 25 yards out and he strikes the sweetest of efforts on the volley past the despairing Lillis. What a strike!
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3 min: … Camps swings it in but it is met by a Stoke head.
2 min: Vicenti slaps a shot at the Stoke goal from distance. It strikes a defender and is out for a Rochdale corner …
Peep! Off we go. Stoke get us under way.
The teams are in the tunnel … and out they come into a frosty Lancastrian evening.
An email: “It’s very rare as an exiled Rochdalian that you want to be back in the old town, it being something of a dump n’all, but I’m missing the place for once,” writes Mike Wood. “Rochdale might have the best pre-match music of any team in the country, with nowt but Stone Roses/Smiths/Oasis/James, just in case anyone was in left in any doubt about where Rochdale was. Let’s hope the mighty Dale give it some welly the night. Up the Dale!”
I’d like to tell you that the atmosphere is crackling at Spotland but technical issues mean I’m currently without sound. So, for me at least, Spotland is eerily quiet.
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The teams
Rochdale: Lillis, Rafferty, Eastham, Bennett, Tanser, Dawson, Lancashire, Camps, Vincenti, Done, Henderson. Subs: Andrew, Noble-Lazarus, Diba Musangu, Allen, Rose, Joel Logan, Bunney.
Stoke: Butland, Bardsley, Shawcross, Wollscheid, Wilson, Nzonzi, Whelan, Arnautovic, Bojan, Moses, Walters. Subs: Muniesa, Ireland, Adam, Cameron, Sidwell, Crouch, Sorensen.
Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)
Rochdale are, handily, as predicted in the graphic below. Stoke are almost as-predicted but with Shawcross in for Muniesa.
Preamble
Evening all. You’ve probably just seen the fifth round draw. It means that this pair are battling it out over a potential tie with … Blackburn. Stoke will be heartened, though – they are two wins over lower league opposition away from a place in the quarter-finals.
Here’s the draw in full: Crystal Palace v Liverpool or Bolton; Arsenal v Middlesbrough; Aston Villa v Leicester; West Brom v West Ham; Bradford City v Sunderland or Fulham; Blackburn v Rochdale or Stoke; Derby County v Reading; Preston North End or Sheffield United v Cambridge United or Manchester United
Probable teams:
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