did you watch the game mate. sure stoke tried to pass it around abit more but they had 5 in midfield 3 of those aggressive CMs and then jonathan walters on one of the wings, big target man up front. dont buy this crap HUGHES of all people will revolutionise there playin style, only time they looked dangerous was from set pieces or off a knock down near the box. they were really poor though, any of the top 6 from last season would (and probably will) twozzle them
Yeah, I did. Stoke never got near the ball. Compared to how they played at the Britannia under Pulis, there was no intensity from them, front to back. Nzonzi put it about but the rest, even Walters who's game is all about that, didn't.
Hughes was trying to make more into a possession side than a direct and forceful side and its poor. The Pulis Stoke gets something from that game as they couldn't handle anything in the box.
They're very much a Rodgers side now. You get into them like any team did at Swansea, you'll turn them over