Mark Hughes had said that defeat here would not have cost him his job. We will never know if he was right. Somehow, Stoke weathered a second-half West Brom storm to cling on to a slender, precious victory. First-half goals from Joe Allen and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting had put the Potters and their under-fire manager in the box seat. But when the wasteful Salomon Rondon finally found the net shortly after the break it set up a final 40 minutes best described as nervy. Forget Ramadan Sobhi's injury-time third – this was heartstopping stuff.