GIVE ME A HUG: lliman Ndiaye is congratulated on his goal PICTURE: Alamy ALEX Neil accepted his share of the blame for his Stoke side’s defeat. “I’ll take a big part of the criticism in the fact that I wanted us to play and open the pitch out,” he said. “We did it to our own detriment, really, because the first goal came when we hit them down the right-hand side. They’ve got two strikers in the box and we’ve got three centre-backs – we don’t pick them up and they score. For the second one, we lose the ball, trying to ...