Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has been fined £8,000 after accepting a Football Association misconduct charge, the English governing body announced Monday.
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Only an inspired performance by Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford kept the hosts at bay as Tottenham managed 19 first-half goal attempts before the break, including one from Son Heung-min that hit the post.
James Tomkins opened the scoring in the 9th minute from close range after a corner had caused mayhem in Stoke’s penalty area.
71′ – GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-0 Stoke City: James McArthur makes the game safe, cutting in from the right before slamming home via a deflection.
Bilic has alternated between Winston Reid, Angelo Ogbonna and James Collins at centre-back this season but they have conceded eight goals in their last two games, after suffering consecutive 4-2 defeats to West Brom and Watford.
But Stoke’s lack of confidence at the back was evident as soon as Townsend and Zaha began to attack them down the flanks, and the latter won a free-kick when he was bundled over by Arnautovic. “We gave cheap free-kicks away and we’re not dealing particularly well with those balls into the box”.
“He was very angry”, the captain, Ryan Shawcross, said.
Stoke scored their only goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time, but it provided little consolation. Mark has been around the block: we’ve finished ninth three times and that tells you he’s got experience, and he knows what it takes to get results in the Premier League.
Stoke City is sitting at the bottom of the Premier League table.
Claude Puel’s men had missed a string of chances prior to Austin rifling home his third goal in two games, the striker having struck a brace against Sparta Pargue in the UEFA Europa League last week.
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Hughes is now a favourite with bookmakers to be the next Premier League to leave his post, with odds shortened after Sunday’s 4-1 humiliation at the hands of Crystal Palace.
