Stoke City boss Mark Hughes was pleased to snatch a point against West Ham United.

Hughes felt his side had done more than enough to end a run of three straight defeats.

"We are thankful for small mercies, because we did not think we were going to get what we deserved," he said.

"I thought we totally dominated the game and should have won it by a country mile. We had the setback from the great free-kick early in the game, and it is difficult when you are the away side to come back.

"We showed great resilience and stuck at it, trying to create things, but just lacked that bit of quality at the top end.

"If one of our disallowed goals had counted, I think we would still have had time to go on and win the game.

"We want to better last season's total and are determined now to get something out of all of the matches we have left."