Mark Hughes warns Arsenal in for usual test at Stoke
Saturday 16 January 2016 13:44, UK
Mark Hughes has warned Arsenal Stoke's new-found flair will not mean an easier ride at the Britannia this weekend.
Arsene Wenger will be in for his usual barracking from supporters who have not forgotten his dismissal of Tony Pulis-era City as having "rugby" tactics.
Stoke's style may have changed since those days, as Wenger himself has acknowledged, but the club's good home record against Arsenal has not been affected.
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The current Premier League leaders have lost on their past two visits to the Potteries and have won there just once since Stoke won promotion in 2008.
And ahead of the Super Sunday meeting Hughes said: "Our record is good. It's a record we'd like to think we can expect to maintain.
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"It's something that we're proud of. We've always caused good Arsenal teams here real problems, even before my time. It's something that we want to continue, something we have the capability of doing.
"We may play in a slightly different way to other times when they've struggled here. In the last couple of occasions we've gone up against them at the Britannia, we've played a different type of football but still caused them problems.
"Either way they know they're going to be in a game that's intense, with high quality, and questions will be asked of them."
