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  3. 'A chastening night' for Stoke City

    Mark Elliott
    BBC Radio Stoke’s Stoke City commentator

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    This was a game that looked there for the taking, particularly after Sorba Thomas opened the scoring with a brilliantly taken 10th goal of the season.

    Then it all fell apart. Preston were sharper, stronger and more aggressive despite their lack of quality, something that made this 3-1 defeat even more frustrating.

    Preston had won one in 13 before this but Stoke allowed them back into the game quickly despite the pressure building from the crowd.

    After the game, manager Mark Robins called his team's character into question and said they'd let Stoke's 3,000 vocal travelling fans down and it was hard to disagree with his sentiments.

    He wasn't frustrated, he said he was "angry".

    On a poor pitch, Preston outmuscled the Potters and capitalised on errors, scoring their equaliser, for example, on a breakaway from a Stoke throw in on the edge of the home side's box.

    Stoke will finish somewhere in the mid-table pack and attention will turn to next season sooner rather than later.

    Some of the players involved at Deepdale may need to rebuild some trust with their manager and the fans if they're to stick around in the medium to long term.

    This was a chastening night in Lancashire.

  4. A woman with long hair which is dyed pink at the front, purple towards the back, looks towards the camera while wearing a cream, wide-brimmed hat. She wears a light blue short-sleeved denim top. Behind her are a variety of hats hanging on the wall or on shelves.

  5. A woman sat at the helm of a train. She has hair just below her shoulders and is wearing glasses, a blue shirt and black trousers. In the train's cab are various screens, levers and and dials.

  6. Three women in photos next to each other- one with a high vis jacket on over a black waterproof, one in the middle smiling with a green jacket and one jumping a bush on a horse

  7. Preston's Alfie Devine shouts in celebration

  8. Robins tells his Stoke players they let fans down

    Robins: ‘We've let the supporters down’

    Stoke manager Mark Robins accused his players of letting down their 3,000 travelling fans in their 3-1 loss to Preston at Deepdale.

    Preston were on a miserable run and Robins felt "they were there for the taking" when Stoke took the lead after four minutes through Sorba Thomas.

    But Stoke failed to press home their advantage, allowing Preston to come back and win for the first time in eight Championship games.

    Robins told BBC Radio Stoke: "We let the supporters down and we had 3,000 supporters here tonight, we've really let them down. That's miles away from where I expect the performance to be.

    "We didn't start particularly well, you know, inexplicable. We certainly didn't win enough duels in the first half.

    "But we got the first breakaway and we score from it, and they're on the back foot. They've been on the back foot for some weeks now and they looked like that. They were there for the taking and whatever happened in this game, the pitch, whatever, I have no clue.

    "There were too many players with off days and I think we've let everybody down. We've not competed well enough in the game and that's inexplicable to me. It's just unacceptable. That isn't a performance that's associated with our team."

  9. A woman with her hair pulled back had glasses and hoop earrings and is smilig at the camera has she holds a small white dog against her face

  10. 🎧 The Sam Gallagher conundrum

    Owen on Gallagher injury conundrum at Stoke

    "Physically, ability wise, technically, tactically, he would be a Premier League player.

    "It's to do with robustness as to why not and we all know that.

    "I'd certainly give a magic pill to make Sam fit for 30-plus games a season because there is a Premier League player in there and he's a difference-maker in games."

    Matt Sandoz and former Stoke City academy director Gareth Owen discuss the "conundrum" of Potters forward Sam Gallagher's struggle for fitness, after he marked his return with a goal during their 3-1 victory over Watford.

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  11. Leigh Ingham, a woman wearing a navy blue dress with white spots and a coloured pattern. She is pictured against a dark grey backdrop.

  12. The entrance to a convenience store, with its shutters down. There is police tape over a paved area in front of the store.

  13. The tower of a church building is seen, with lower parts of the structure obscured by bushes in the foreground.

  14. Port Vale boss Jon Brady crosses his arms and looks on from the touchline

  15. A woman wearing a hard hat and hi-vis jacket talks to a man wearing a hard hat and hi-vis jacket. They are facing away from us and looking at a piece of paper. In the background, work is being carried out on a construction site.

  16. A group of men gather on a patch of grass next to a lake, which can be seen in the background.

  17. A Google street view showing two 12-storey tower blocks.

  18. Jon Brady points out some instructions from the touchline during a Port Vale match

  19. Stoke will take 'confidence' from scoring run - Moult

    Crewe Alexandra striker and Stoke City academy graduate Louis Moult has said the Potters will take "confidence" from an impressive scoring spell at the bet365 Stadium.

    Stoke have scored three times in each of their past two matches on home soil, including a double from striker Milan Smit in their 3-3 draw with Ipswich Town - his first goals for the club since joining on loan in January.

    "You score six goals at home, you've got to believe that next chance is coming," Moult told BBC Radio Stoke.

    "The talk before the Ipswich game was about Smit getting onto the scoresheet for the first time and I was so delighted to see him get these two goals."

    As for whether the recent run of goalscoring form will prompt more goalmouth action from his team-mates, Moult can only draw from his own experiences - but those will have Stoke fans feeling optimistic.

    "I've been at clubs where I've gone 16 without a goal and then I've scored and then I didn't stop scoring after that," the 33-year-old added.

    "It's believing in your own abilities and always making those runs believing you're going to get that chance."

  20. Two brown-coloured busts depicting two men. They have been placed on a white platform inside an art studio.

  21. A man stands in a multi-storey car park and smiles, while wearing a black hat with says Capital&Centric. There is construction work taking place behind him.

  22. Some dilapidated shopping units with a small green sign over them that says "The Maltings".

  23. A large red brick building with a sloped roof and arched windows. We can see a 'Hello and welcome to Busy Bees' sign. The lights are on bright. It is evening time so the rest of the building is slightly dark.
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