* Stoke beat Crystal Palace 1-0 to keep visitors in 19th place
* Allen scored his sixth league goal, his best-ever haul
* The Welshman should have scored earlier but headed over
* Palace's new signing Luka Milivojevic made his debut
* Visitors have won just once in last 11 Premier League outings
* Stoke away to Spurs next; Palace home to Middlesbrough
STOKE CITY 1 CRYSTAL PALACE 0
Feb 11 (Reuters)- Joe Allen scored a personal best sixth Premier League goal of the season as Stoke City secured a deserved 1-0 win over struggling Crystal Palace on Saturday.
* Stoke beat Crystal Palace 1-0 to keep visitors in 19th place
* Allen scored his sixth league goal, his best-ever haul
* The Welshman should have scored earlier but headed over
* Palace's new signing Luka Milivojevic made his debut
* Visitors have won just once in last 11 Premier League outings
* Stoke away to Spurs next; Palace home to Middlesbrough
STOKE CITY 1 CRYSTAL PALACE 0
Feb 11 (Reuters)- Joe Allen scored a personal best sixth Premier League goal of the season as Stoke City secured a deserved 1-0 win over struggling Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Palace, embarrassingly beaten 4-0 by Sunderland last time out, were clearly under orders to provide more of a physical challenge and had three players booked before the interval.
Stoke should have taken the lead earlier when Allen headed an easy chance wide but had their patience and persistence rewarded when Ramadan Sobhi laid the ball off to the Welshman, who steered in from 10 metres on 67 minutes.
Palace sent on Jeffrey Schlupp to join other new signing Luka Milivojevic but only looked truly dangerous from set-pieces. They remain 19th, above bottom-placed Sunderland on goal difference.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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