Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has admitted that Manchester United "deserved" to win the League Cup quarter-final tie between the two sides.
Second-half goals from Ashley Young and Patrice Evra helped the Red Devils get the better of the Potters 2-0 at the Britannia Stadium on Wednesday.
"I thought we made a fair fist of it in the first half against all the elements and thought we were in decent shape," BBC Sport quotes him as saying. "Our organisation was good, United weren't creating too many chances.
"But United, on the night, deserved to win, they just had a little bit more power and pace. We weren't able to ask enough questions of them in the second half."
United will take on Sunderland in the semi-finals of the competition in January.
