Charlton Taylor 25, Aneke 75, Gallagher 83 3

Stoke City Ince 37 1

STOKE City manager Nathan Jones rued his side’s form in front of goal.

‘It’s frustrating,’ Jones said. ‘We come away to a difficult place and we’ve created enough to win.

‘We created some glorious chances, hit the bar, hit the post, and then we got hit with a sucker punch, and it lifted them. Even late on we had chances to get something out of the game.

‘There are lots of positives, we started on the front foot, we came out flying, but we’ve got to take our chances, which is the hardest thing to do. We’ve got to change mentality and then confidence, because when we do play you can see what we can do.’

Goals from Lyle Taylor, Chuks Aneke and Conor Gallagher gave Lee Bowyer’s side the points with Tom Ince replying for Stoke.