After spending most of the game dominating their opponents through careful, clever build-up play, a single errant pass to the feet of Russell Teibert in front of his own 18 yard box was all Carl Robinson's side needed to cut through the centre of the Galaxy.
Chelsea, who also face a crucial Europa League game against Rubin Kazan on Thursday, failed to heed the warning signs even after Rodriguez produced a fine finish following a clever build-up involving Davis and Lambert.
Stoke's signing of former Barcelona forward Bojan, 23, has certainly excited supporters at the Britannia Stadium, but too often Hughes' side could not find an end product for all their clever build-up play.
The entrepreneurial cats who started the 'Big' movement were the owners of a banana plantation in Northern New South Wales who thought it might be clever to build a giant banana to attract tourists.
"The radio [messages] explained that it can make children strong, healthy and clever, and build the body to protect it from being sick.
He had a big hit with "Oh Boy," a clever song built around a Rose Royce sample that's woven into nearly every line, like a musical watermark.
Walls have been knocked down, ceilings lowered, doors removed, gardens dug out, clever storage built into the walls, and bathrooms and kitchens gutted.
He played a subdued version of his recent hit "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore," a clever song built around a self-referential confession: "All the things I've said in songs/All the purple prose you bought from me/Reality's just black and white/The sentimental things I'd write/Never meant that much to me".
The really clever feature built into the app is the option to automatically increase the listening speed over time.
It's a simple and clever service built by a technologist who wanted it for himself, and figured others would probably find it useful too — no hype needed.
