Stoke City were thumped 3-0 at Leicester City on Saturday.

City will have to be much better when they travel to Anfield on Tuesday to try to overturn a first leg deficit and make it to Wembley in the Capital One Cup.

Boss Mark Hughes does not think his players had the semi-final against Liverpool on their minds but he expects an immediate response from them.

"Maybe subconsciously they did, but I hope not," said Hughes.

"But no, I don't think so. It wasn't a great day for us and we didn't produce anything of note. We're an honest group and this was just one of those days to forget, I think.

"We are a lot better than we were able to show but that's credit to Leicester, who work exceptionally hard and press you in all areas of the field.

"We couldn't deal with that and we couldn't retain the ball in key areas of the pitch because of the pressure we were put under, which was disappointing.

"You can't win Premier League games if you don't have a good number of players playing really well, which we didn't have.

"We needed to be better but we'll be looking to bounce back quickly - we have managed to do that more often than not. We have a huge game on Tuesday and I expect my team to respond very quickly."