Summary

  • Bony with first PL goals since Boxing Day

  • Charlie Adam & Arnautovic hit woodwork

  • Stoke up to 12th, Swansea remain 19th

  1. Postpublished at 60 mins

    Stoke 2-1 Swansea

    What do you call a one-two when the same two players do two in a row? A three-four? A one-two squared? Whatever it is, Wilfried Bony and Marko Arnautovic pull it off to move through Swansea very nicely but Alfie Mawson eventually brings their fun to an end. 

  2. Postpublished at 59 mins

    Stoke 2-1 Swansea

    Ramadan Sobhi has now been given that second goal. Looked an own goal to me but it matters little in the scheme of things. Stoke lead, and they have started the second half very brightly. 

    Ramadan SobhiImage source, Reuters
  3. 'What have Swansea got?'published at 21:15 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    Stoke 2-1 Swansea

    Chris Waddle
    Former England winger on 5 live Sport

    Great play. Stoke have come out of the blocks quickly for the second half. Ramadan Sobhi does ever so well, he twists one way and then the other. It's an own goal for me as the ball wasn't going in.

    Stoke aren't letting Swansea play the ball out from the back and are closing then down in midfield. This is a good test for Bob Bradley's team now. What have they got?

    Stoke score their second goalImage source, Reuters
  4. Text us on 81111published at 21:15 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    What's happened to Phillip Wollscheid? He was a mainstay in my Fantasy Football team last year.......

    Mike, Birmingham

    I can answer this one. He left on deadline day to join Wolfsburg on loan, as Stoke signed Bruno Martins Indi on loan. Did that strengthen them? I'm not sure. 

  5. goal

    GOAL - Stoke 2-1 Swanseapublished at 55 mins

    Ramadan Sobhi

    Stoke deserve to be ahead and they do nudge in front after some fine play from teenage sub Ramadan Sobhi! Glenn Whelan slices through the Swans defence with a very nice pass indeed, Ramadan beats his man once, twice, three times on the left of the area and puts in a low cross/shot whichAlfie Mawson can only turn over the line from close range.

    It looked an own goal to me but Ramadan has been given it.

    Who was poised for the tap-in? Joe Allen of course...

    Ramadan Sobhi celebratesImage source, Reuters
  6. Postpublished at 21:10 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    Chris Waddle
    Former England winger on 5 live Sport

    Mark HughesImage source, Getty Images

    I would think Stoke manager Mark Hughes would have really laid into his team at half-time. Swansea are lacking confidence so his team need to try to get into them.

  7. Postpublished at 51 mins

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    Panic stations in the Swansea defence, dear oh dear! Charlie Adam's corner is swiped at by Ryan Shawcross, it goes dead inside the area and Leroy Fer can only wallop his clearance against the head of a team-mate. Could have gone anywhere. The Stoke fans in fine voice. 

  8. Postpublished at 50 mins

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    Swansea now pop the ball about neatly and Gylfi Sigurdsson shoots from a long way out - it's tame and easy for Lee Grant though.

    Sigurdsson or Charlie Adam are bound to score from 20+ yards tonight. Got to. 

    Lee GrantImage source, Reuters
  9. And the answers....published at 21:07 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

  10. Postpublished at 48 mins

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    The fastest commentator's curse of the season as Marko Arnautovic puts a chance on a plate for Wilfried Bony - and he blazes it over. Wildly over. 

  11. Postpublished at 46 mins

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    Maybe that goal tonight will give Wilfried Bony some much-needed mojo and get him back to something approaching his best. He shows good strength and touch to evade three defenders at the start of this second half. 

    Wilfried BonyImage source, Reuters
  12. KICK-OFFpublished at 45 mins

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    Bob Bradley synchs his own watch with kick-off, he doesn't trust the stadium clock. Away! 

    Bob BradleyImage source, AFP
  13. Marking your cardpublished at 21:00 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    Just flagging up a game tomorrow night, if you need to make plans, evict family members, 'work late'.

    It's Manchester City v Barcelona. Lovely stuff. 

  14. So near, and yet so farpublished at 20:56 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    Stoke could not have come much closer to a hatful of goals in that first half. Charlie Adam was responsible for two of these blue blobs against the post, with Marko Arnautovic hitting the other. 

    .Image source, Opta
  15. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 20:52 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    Text 81111

    Have you stopped laughing yet?

    I met Mido when he was on loan at Wigan. I had my brother's sticker album on me, I asked him to sign his sticker, even though it was him playing for Middlesborough, he jokingly asked if he could sign Tuncay instead.

    Michael, Manchester.

  16. Get thinking....published at 20:51 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

  17. Postpublished at 20:50 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    Chris Waddle
    Former England winger on 5 live Sport

    Stoke boss Mark Hughes has to be telling his players at half-time 'we need to be 20 yards up the pitch, closing them down and there are goals there for you - if you stand off them they will hurt you'.

    It's been OK. Stoke have to up the tempo and there are three points there for them. Swansea, if you allow them to play, are very good. Once Swansea equalised, they came into the game.

  18. HITS THE WOODWORK. AGAIN!published at 20:50 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    StokeImage source, Getty Images

    If you can't be a good manager, be a lucky one.

    Stoke hit the woodwork three times in that first half, and three is the most any team has managed in one game so far this season.

    Bournemouth did it against Watford and Arsenal did it - against Bob Bradley's Swansea.

    That's six goals he's managed to swerve...

  19. HALF-TIMEpublished at 20:48 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2016

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

  20. Postpublished at 45 mins

    Stoke 1-1 Swansea

    Modou Barrow slides in behind the Stoke back four but he overruns it and ends up toe-poking it wide. Half-time?