Yahoo Sports Nathan Lowe's an intelligent striker - Robins
Stoke City boss Mark Robins praised the instant impact of Nathan Lowe who started back with his parent club just as he had left off at Walsall.
A week earlier, Lowe had scored his sixth goal in five games for League Two leaders Walsall in a 5-1 lunchtime win over Tranmere Rovers - to take his tally to 18 in his Saddlers loan spell.
With 15 in the league, the England Under-19 international was the EFL's joint top marksman with Norwich City's Borja Sainz and Stockport County's Louie Barry.
After being recalled last Sunday night by Stoke, 16 months on from his last goal for the Potters, Lowe netted again to become the EFL's leading striker on his own.
"He's only 19 and he has so much potential," Robins told BBC Sport. "He's an intelligent boy, who asks intelligent questions.
"I'm so pleased for him. He's come back full of confidence from scoring goals for Walsall – and they've obviously done a good job with him.
"He took his chance really well. He got himself in a good position and his finish was great.
"When we didn't score a second goal, you're always in danger of conceding and they were doing more attacking than us second half.
"But I'm happy to have come here and got a point. You can tell what a good side they are and why they are up there at this end of the league. They were always a threat."
Having gone five games unbeaten - three of them under new boss Robins - Stoke's third straight draw sets them up for a tough midweek trip to Portsmouth who sit four places below Stoke in 22nd, but just two points behind.
