Alan Pardew: “Steven Taylor has given a performance of England standard.
“We had no height in the team – and I know we struggled from set plays.
“I’m ecstatic for our fans.
“That is a game that we’d have struggled to win without our best team.
“Stoke come here with a great gameplan and a great mentality – they came here and made it difficult for us.
“We had to ask all sort of different questions of them, and we did.”
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