{"id":325003,"date":"2011-03-20T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T14:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/20\/fuller-back-on-form-says-pulis\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T14:58:40","slug":"fuller-back-on-form-says-pulis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/fuller-back-on-form-says-pulis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuller back on form, says Pulis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1.5\">\n<tr readability=\"3\">\n<td readability=\"4.5\">\n<div readability=\"8\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b1d69b76er_226getty.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Stoke City striker Ricardo Fuller\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fuller joined Stoke from Southampton in August 2006 for \u00a3500,000<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Stoke City manager Tony Pulis believes Ricardo Fuller is getting close to his best form again after scoring in the 4-0 win against Newcastle on Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ric has trained like he can train this week,&#8221; Pulis told BBC Radio Stoke. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s been a little bit off it but I&#8217;ve had a chat with him about things. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s looked sharper and more within the group than he has for a while. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a great player, he can do special things and I&#8217;m really pleased for him to score a goal.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Walters, Jermaine Pennant and Danny Higginbotham also found the net as the Potters scored four goals in a game for the first time since winning promotion to the Premier League in 2008.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fuller&#8217;s late strike was his 49th goal for Stoke and rounded off a comprehensive victory. <\/p>\n<p>The Jamaica international had looked set to leave the Britannia Stadium in January, with Sunderland reportedly having a \u00a33m bid rejected for the player. <\/p>\n<p>Pulis admitted he was worried that the club&#8217;s run to the last four of the FA Cup would detract from the Potters&#8217; main objective of staying in the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was such euphoria and I didn&#8217;t want the players to lose focus,&#8221; added the Stoke boss. &#8220;I was very concerned this week about making sure they were focused on the job in hand.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Stoke are up to 10th in the table, five points above the relegation zone.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b1d69b76er_226getty.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/s\/stoke_city\/9430518.stm\" title=\"Fuller back on form, says Pulis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fuller back on form, says Pulis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Fuller joined Stoke from Southampton in August 2006 for \u00a3500,000 Stoke City manager Tony Pulis believes Ricardo Fuller is getting close to his best form again after scoring in the 4-0 win against Newcastle on Saturday. &#8220;Ric has trained like he can train this week,&#8221; Pulis told BBC Radio Stoke. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s been a little bit off it but I&#8217;ve had a chat with him about things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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