Stoke City completed their Easter weekend with a home draw with Huddersfield Town. It’s a draw that keeps a useful distance between themselves and the bottom three heading into the last six matches of the season. Here are the talking points from the bet365 Stadium.
Stoke have had 19 different scorers in the league this season – plus a much-needed contribution from own goals – but only two up to now had scored more than two. Ki-Jana Hoever joins that small group (with Ryan Mmaee, 3, and Andre Vidigal, 5) with two in two to take him to three as well.
“It was a great goal,” said Steven Schumacher. “Hopefully he keeps that habit up because it’s important everyone contributes goals. Obviously you want goals to come from your centre-forwards but if they don’t then you want them to come from anyone.
“It was a really good goal, he showed a brilliant bit of skill to come inside and it was a great finish. We felt that might have been what was needed to unlock the door and then after that I thought we grew in confidence, got into some really good areas but didn’t manage to make one of those chances count. We had one cleared off the line. On another day we might have won it.”
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