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Hughes: There were a couple of soft penalties

Sunday, April 20 2014 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    Reaction by Stoke City manager Mark Hughes after Cardiff City and Stoke City draw 1-1 in the Premier League

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Stoke City manager Mark Hughes on the penalty decisions for both sides

    "Probably the neutrals in the ground would think they were a couple of soft penalties. I'm not going to surprise you by saying I thought ours was a valid penalty and rightly given. My view on Cardiff's penalty is one that was very soft and the lad had actually looked for a movement from Steven Nzonzi so that would allow him to go down. I think he was always looking to go down in that situation he drew the movement from Steven, very minimal if anything, if any contact and obviously difficult for Howard Webb. When players go down in those situations it's difficult to read whether it's a correct decision or not, but there you go. That just came at period which was a bit frenetic for us, probably the only time in the game were Cardiff got a little bit of momentum and created a few opportunities for themselves but apart from that I thought our control of the game was good again."

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