The Stoke City game plan worked
Stoke City’s plan wasn’t just to defend and then hit Chelsea with a counter, they also had targeted Baba Rahman and that worked a treat for Xherdan Shaqiri. The team also had a plan to frustrate Diego Costa and were brilliant in defence. This wasn’t a Stoke that Mark Hughes had made, this felt like the Tony Pulis Stoke City and that isn’t the worst thing in the world. Stoke were effective, they got the goal, sucked up the pressure and defender well, sometimes you don’t have to be attractive, to get the job done.
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