Match summary

Stoke 2-0 Watford

Peter Crouch scored for the second successive match to help Stoke City to a comfortable 2-0 win over Watford.

Ryan Shawcross put Mark Hughes’s side ahead in first-half stoppage time when he volleyed home Charlie Adam’s corner for his first goal in just over two years.

Crouch doubled the lead as he poked in a cross from Adam that had been missed by the Watford defence.

Heurelho Gomes denied Jonathan Walters from scoring Stoke's third while Sebastian Prodl headed past a post for the visitors, who have won once in their past eight Premier League matches.

See: Stoke report | Watford report