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Hughes admits Stoke 'not good enough' after Wolves FA Cup shock

Stoke City boss Mark Hughes admits they lost their FA Cup tie to Wolves in the first-half.

Some home fans booed their team off at half-time and Hughes obviously was not happy with what he had seen in the first half either as he made two changes at the break, with Giannelli Imbula and Bojan Krkic replaced by Joe Allen and Charlie Adam.

Bojan was already frustrated by a lack of starts, with a move away being mooted, and his representatives recently met with Hughes to discuss the issue. Whether this is the last we see of the Spaniard in a Stoke shirt remains to be seen.

Hughes said: "You can read into Bojan and Imbula, they weren't making an impact and we needed to change things. That's the top and bottom of it."

He continued: "We lost the game on the first half. The strength of the team we put out should have been capable of getting a result.

"You need luck, and their keeper made several saves, but ultimately we weren't good enough on the day and we have to give them credit.

"We wanted a cup run, sadly that's not the case and that's disappointing. We need to pick ourselves up and get our act together next week now."

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