If Mark Hughes is planning any New Year’s resolutions, he may want to consider giving up gambling. The Welshman admitted that he played a weakened team in a 5-0 defeat at Chelsea two days ago to give Stoke a better chance of beating Newcastle, and the high-risk strategy backfired in the wind and rain here. Ayoze Perez grabbed a 73rd minute winner to send Newcastle above Stoke in the table as Hughes’s slipped back to two places above the relegation zone.