Crystal Palace remain in 19th place in the Premier League after Joe Allen scored the only goal in the game in the second-half to condemn the Eagles to defeat once again.

Sam Allardyce made two changes to the line-up that lost to Sunderland last week as Andros Townsend and deadline day signing Luka Milivojevic both came into the starting eleven.

Palace had chances in the game but once again defensive errors cost them as Stoke capitalised on their mistakes. Some fans may even say that Palace didn’t deserve to win but, in my opinion, they certainty  didn’t deserve to lose either.

Here are my player ratings from the game:

(Alfonso Greenbook is the host of the e-Crystal Palace podcast, a weekly podcast reviewing Palace games on YouTubeiTunes and acast.)