Stoke lost 4-1 against Crystal Palace, the third time in four league games that they have been breached four times, and continue to prop up the division with one point from five winless fixtures.
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Since joining the club in the summer of 2013, Hughes has guided the club to their highest finish in the Premier League of ninth for three consecutive seasons. We’ve got to stop shipping goals, clearly. Hopefully we can come back stronger.
Danger from set-pieces: “It’s been odd that we’ve been conceding set-pieces, and I said to the guys that you’ve got to look at us on paper that we’re going to be very powerful at set-pieces”.
Pardew indicated that the performance was one that he had been waiting for, saying: “In the last 10 games we’ve been pretty solid”.
“We’ve got experienced players and they’ve got to do better”.
“We are getting a lot of stick but we have got to stick together and hopefully come through it. Football has a odd way of changing and you can soon go out and win five in a row”.
The result secured back-to-back victories for Palace for the first time since December 2015, when Stoke were again their opposition.
“They will be absolutely fine, they have a great squad and a great manager”. “The media spotlight turns on to the manager when the results aren’t good”. – Stoke have conceded 50 goals in 2016; more than any other Premier League team.
“Mr Moss, bless him, decided that warranted a sending off, which, by the letter of the law it did, so I have to hold my hands up”.
From a free-kick near the edge of the area, Andros Townsend crossed towards James Tomkins, who got the last touch after marker Jon Walters had failed to deal with the ball in. “I think set-pieces will be a feature of our play and I think other teams will have to concentrate on our power at those”.
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“Now we have to look to consistency”. Glen Johnson got 90 minutes, so we’re trying to build his levels.
