Frustrating, but you have to acknowledge that Stoke's stifling tactics were very successful.
Perhaps Rovers tried the patience game for 15 minutes too long. Sometimes you have to resort to Allardyce methods!
Main positives: Walton, Nyambe, Travis, Downing, Gallagher.
Tosin: superb at times, but also guilty of being over-elaborate when a quick release was required.
Bell: just lacks that edge of self-belief you can see in Nyambe. Towards the end, he simple needed to get early crosses in.
Lenihan: a bit tentative. Worried about a second yellow?
Johnson: good cover and tackling, but the ball does slow up when it goes through him.
Gallagher won the ball in the air virtually every time. I was surprised that Armstrong and Rothwell didn't read that a bit better and play closer to him. I also wish Armstrong had worked harder at getting his markers out of position in general.
Rothwell faded in the second half, having looked threatening in the first 30 minutes.
Weirdly, the other results mean nothing has changed!