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Set-piece guru Narcis Pelach grateful for opportunity with Stoke City

NARCIS Pelach has thanked the Stoke City hierarchy for taking the “very brave” decision to appoint him as manager.

Set-piece guru

By Ryan Daly

Gibson 60
STOKE CITY 1

MILL WALL 1
Coburn 42

GLEE: Millwall’s Josh Coburn, left, celebrates with Tom Bradshaw

NARCIS Pelach has thanked the Stoke City hierarchy for taking the “very brave” decision to appoint him as manager.
The Spaniard took over at the bet365 Stadium in September, replacing the outgoing Steven Schumacher and has not looked back since.
His side gained another valuable point against Millwall, with another set-piece header from Ben Gibson after Josh Coburn had struck the opener, and Pelach says he decided against hiring a set-piece coach as he wanted to ...

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