Peter Crouch, age 36, has not started a Premier League game this season but he showed here that he is far from finished. “It’s not a bad option, is it?” Mark Hughes said, jokingly, of his 69th-minute introduction of Crouch. “Once again Pete has come on to good effect and it just illustrates what a great professional he is. Wilfried Ndidi whacked the ball off the toe of Diouf on halfway and, perhaps unwittingly, released Mahrez down the right. Hughes had picked the same Stoke side that had assuaged criticism of him by winning at Watford last Saturday but Leicester’s second goal was the catalyst for the Stoke manager to make a change.

Source: The Guardian November 04, 2017 14:32 UTC