"I feel a bit aggrieved," BBC Sport quotes him as saying. "I felt we had a good claim for a penalty before Tottenham's penalty. In terms of having an impact on the game, we found it difficult.

"They have got a lot of power and pace and we struggled to cope with that. There are reasons for that as we are missing key players but we need to do better.

"We struggled to get a foothold in the game. We need to be able to get in behind teams but don't have that option. On the day we were not good enough and up to the standard of the Spurs players."

Stoke are currently 12th in the league table with 21 points from 19 matches.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
P	Leicester City Leicester	44	30	4	10	86	39	47	94
2	Leeds United Leeds	45	27	9	9	80	41	39	90
3	Ipswich Town Ipswich	43	26	11	6	85	53	32	89
4	Southampton	45	25	9	11	85	62	23	84
5	Norwich City Norwich	45	21	10	14	79	63	16	73
6	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	45	20	12	13	67	47	20	72
7	Hull City	44	19	12	13	65	56	9	69
8	Middlesbrough	45	19	9	17	68	61	7	66
9	Coventry City Coventry	44	17	13	14	68	55	13	64
10	Preston North End Preston	44	18	9	17	56	61	-5	63
11	Bristol City	45	17	11	17	53	47	6	62
12	Cardiff City Cardiff	45	19	5	21	51	65	-14	62
13	Swansea City Swansea	45	15	12	18	59	64	-5	57
14	Watford	45	13	17	15	60	58	2	56
15	Sunderland	45	16	8	21	52	52	0	56
16	Millwall	45	15	11	19	44	55	-11	56
17	Queens Park Rangers QPR	45	14	11	20	45	57	-12	53
18	Stoke City Stoke	45	14	11	20	45	60	-15	53
19	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	45	13	11	21	58	74	-16	50
20	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	45	14	8	23	42	68	-26	50
21	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	45	12	12	21	58	70	-12	48
22	Birmingham City Birmingham	45	12	11	22	49	65	-16	47
23	Huddersfield Town Huddersfield	45	9	18	18	48	75	-27	45
R	Rotherham United Rotherham	45	4	12	29	32	87	-55	24