Sunday 4 December 2016 00:44, UK
Jonathan Walters scored his first goal since March before centre-back Marc Muniesa, added a second which leaves the Potters ninth.
It inflicted a fifth defeat in six on the road for the Clarets, who remain winless on their travels despite four triumphs at Turf Moor for last year's second-tier champions.
The hosts eventually woke up and nearly took a 10th-minute lead from a Xherdan Shaqiri corner that an unmarked Bruno Martins-Indi nodded against the base of the far post.
It was from another dead-ball situation that Stoke did take the lead 10 minutes later as Walters turned home his 40th Premier League goal for the club.
Mame Diouf, the converted right wing-back, played a one-two with Shaqiri from a throw and his cross bypassed the falling Ben Mee, with Walters' instinctive flick towards goal looping into the net off the far post.
Muniesa started the move himself in his own half by skipping past two challenges and converted it with a fine finish from Marko Arnautovic's cross, which came after the Austrian had beaten Jon Flanagan all too easily.
Hughes seemed to sense a Burnley fightback too as he introduced Joe Allen for Shaqiri on the hour mark after Mee had driven into Grant's arms from a corner.
Allen tested Paul Robinson on a couple of occasions, once from a Arnautovic pull back and another from a lay-off from fellow replacement Peter Crouch, and the Welshman's presence at least seemed to help kill off any hopes of a Clarets comeback, with Grant saving brilliantly from Gray in their only real clear-cut opening.
