Stoke manager Mark Hughes: “They will be a test for us, they’re a good side with good energy and lots of pace and power so we will have to be able to match that”. I’m very pleased for our players and for our supporters.
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His representative Martin Schoots told Danish newspaper BT: “Christian is just very happy at Spurs, as a player and as a person”.
“Bony averaged a goal in every other game for Swansea, before seeing his strike rate plummet to one in four at Man City, where he was usually a late substitute at best”.
Two goals apiece from Harry Kane and Dele Alli saw Spurs win 4-0 at Stoke on April 18 as they kept their championship ambitions alive in emphatic style.
And he predicted that striker Harry Kane will soon be amongst the goals again despite drawing a blank in his first four league games and failing to find the net in England’s 1-0 victory over Slovakia on Sunday.
Kane, whose goal was his first in the top flight since May 2, said: “It is not an easy place to come but to win 4-0 here past year and today made it look easier than it is”.
STO vs TOT PredictionPlaying at home gives Stoke C a huge advantage, but they are not in the form they were last season so Tottenham can capitalize on that.
Mark Hughes’ behaviour as he was sent to the Stoke stands against Tottenham was a major surprise, according to Andy Hinchcliffe. We will see what happens before the game and look at the starting XI because we don’t have a reference point now, only the first three games.
Stoke have underperformed through the course of their first three matches of the new campaign and the shortness of the visitors’ price is such that there is value in backing them to earn a result on Saturday.
The early stages of the game belonged to the hosts as they won all the physical battles.
“It was a foul on Jon Walters and Marko had to hurdle the challenge, he was not diving”.
“Maybe, Mr Moss, who was the fourth official, was a little too keen to emphasise and enforce the new directives, which we have been exposed to on several occasions already this season”.
Spurs finished third in the Premier League last season with the sixth-highest wage bill and Christian Eriksen’s new contract, announced on Tuesday, brings him in line with the club’s top earners on around £75,000-a-week.
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“That was the disappointment, it wasn’t easy to get messages down to the team but that’s not the reason why we got beat”.
