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Stoke victory vs. Tottenham among best of season, says Mark Hughes

Stoke boss Mark Hughes rated his side's 3-0 triumph over visiting Tottenham as one of the best of a campaign that has seen the Potters equal the 50-point total they reached last year with two matches left.

Goals from Charlie Adam, Steven Nzonzi and Mame Diouf saw Hughes' bunch dominate a lacklustre Spurs team on Saturday.

"I think it's up there with our best performances of the season," the Welshman said.

"I was delighted today. I thought from start to finish that the level of performance was really high. The quality of play was excellent, certainly in the first half when we dominated what was, on paper, a really good Spurs side.

"I don't think we allowed them to get a foothold in the game. They had the problem of going down to 10 men but in fairness that was probably their better period.

"Overall we were very comfortable in the game."

The win moved Stoke above West Ham into ninth.

They are three points short of Swansea, who have tricky fixtures against Arsenal, Manchester City and Crystal Palace to come.

"We've still got two games and we will try to maximise the points we can get from those and see where that takes us," said Hughes, who has to play Burnley and Liverpool before the end of the season.

"Fifty points is a good marker, and let's see if we can get maximum points from the last two."