Player ratings

DAVIES: Good save at full stretch from Barkhuizen in second half .........................

SMITH: Eager to get forward and corners .......................

TYMON: Back in the team on the left and had a couple of chances getting forward .......

CHESTER: Important in Stoke trying to build from back ......

SOUTTAR: Will wonder how he didn’t score midway through second half .........................

NORRINGTON-DAVIES: A new position on left of back three with licence to break forward

MIKEL: Always available for a pass and tried to dictate the play ....................................

CLUCAS: Getting sharper as he comes back from hernia surgery. Almost talked himself into a second yellow ............

POWELL: Brilliant cross from the right to set up Fletcher’s disallowed header ...............

NORTON: Energy and pace to make defenders think. Might have had early penalty .........

FLETCHER: One square up with Cunningham, another goal disallowed for offside ...

SUBSTITUTES THOMPSON (for Clucas, 75): Linked well with Norringtondavies and Tymon ...............

BROWN (for Norton, 75): Offered a different kind of outlet up top ................................

VOKES (for Fletcher, 79): Won a header from a long throw. .

BATTH (for Tymon, 89): Brought on following red .....

Not used: Gunn, Cousins, Coates, Matondo, Taylor.

PRESTON: Iversen, Van den Berg, Storey, Hughes, Barkhuizen, Whiteman, Ledson, Cunningham, Browne, Evans (Potts, 76), Riis Jakobsen (Maguire, 76). Subs not used: Bayliss, Molumby, Huntington, Ripley, Sinclair, Bodin, Gordon.