Stoke City 1-0 Arsenal: 5 Talking Points, Premier League 2017/18

2) Stoke's mobile front line punishes Arsenal despite Shaqiri injury

Jese and Saido Berahino combined for Stoke City's solitary goal against Arsenal

Mark Hughes' team has evolved in the past couple of seasons from the "rugby style" they were notorious for to a style that sees the ball on the ground more often than in the air.

Their front line of Xherdan Shaqiri, Jese Rodriguez and Eric Choupo-Moting looked good enough to trouble Arsenal's makeshift back-three of Shkodran Mustafi, Nacho Monreal (who played in the centre) and Sead Kolasinac.

Stoke had only 22.7% of the possession over the 90 minutes. But they still looked threatening, especially on the break. Shaqiri's injury after 25 minutes threw a spanner in the works but Saido Berahino did provide an attacking impetus when they won the ball back to counter.

And they punished Arsenal with a quick counter-attack following two mistakes from Granit Xhaka in two seconds. The midfielder first played a loose pass before committing himself to win it back, leaving the backtracking defence completely unprotected.

It allowed Berahino to slip in an unmarked Jese whose neat finish beat Petr Cech to find the back of the net.

3 - Jesé is the third player to score a goal on his Premier League debut for @stokecity, after Ricardo Fuller & Michael Kightly. Smart.

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) August 19, 2017