Oxford United 1-1 Stoke City: Idris El Mizouni earns U’s victory over Potters

Oxford United head coach Des Buckingham:

“I hope our fans realise that a lot of really hard work has gone in this victory again today.

“It was an overall performance from the team, and this against a very, very good Stoke team.

“I thought the first half was probably evenly-balanced, but in the second half I thought we were really exciting to watch and that’s pleasing for me and our fans.

“We’re putting together a way we want to play – I certainly don’t want any of my players to be robotic in any way.

“Collectively we’ve been impressive again, but I also want the players to showcase themselves as individuals when they can.”

Stoke City head coach Steve Schumacher told BBC Radio Stoke:

“I think it’s a game that we’ll end up regretting. We spoke about it as an opportunity to come here and get a win, try and get three points and we said exactly the same at half-time.

“The performance wasn’t brilliant in the first half, but it was still there for us and we just needed to up our game.

“But the opposite happened. They got the goal early on in the second half – a real poor goal from our point of view from a throw in – and then we huffed and puffed in the rest of the second half but showed no quality.

“So not good enough, and in the end we got what we deserved.”