#4 Are Stoke flat-track bullies?
Before this game, Stoke’s season this term has been a tale of two halves. As Barry Glendenning of the Guardian pointed out, Stoke have managed their 5 wins against opposition who lie in the bottom half of the table.
Emirates was supposed to be a stern test and the result meant that the assessment is much closer to the truth than one may agree. Nevertheless, Stoke had their chances in the game and can consider themselves unlucky in the way they conceded the goals.
If only, Stoke could have been more clinical in the early stages then it could have been a different story altogether. And Mark Hughes summed up the positives form this display at the end stating, “We created a number of good opportunities when in previous years we have struggled to even get shots on goal here. We stood up to them and maybe conceding the equaliser before half-time lifted them and hurt us more than we thought.”
