Stoke: Stoke added another notch to an impressive list of upset results this season as they beat Arsenal 1-0 on Saturday to hurt the Gunners' bid for the English Premier League title.
Jonathan Walters' penalty 14 minutes from time after Laurent Koscielny was penalized for handball was enough to give Stoke all three points.
Mark Hughes' team has beaten Chelsea and Manchester United at home this season, as well as drawing with Manchester City. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger had not won in his previous seven visits to Stoke's Brittania Stadium.
Arsenal slipped three points behind league leader Chelsea, which won 3-1 at Fulham. It is three above third-place Manchester City, which has two games in hand.
In another match, Substitute Romelu Lukaku scored on his return from injury as Everton snatched a 1-0 win against West Ham in the Premier League.
Lukaku had been out for a month with an ankle injury and had not scored since December. But he was introduced on the hour mark and the on-loan Chelsea forward scored the decisive goal nine minutes from time, driving home Leighton Baines' cut-back.
The win will come as a welcome boost as Everton had failed to score in three of its last four league matches and had won just twice since the turn of the year.
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce was visibly aggrieved at the end of the first half after Gareth Barry appeared to foul Kevin Nolan when he was clean through on goal.
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