Stoke City sneaked back into the Championship's top six as they scored the only goal of the game at Bloomfield Road to beat Blackpool.
But they needed a slice of luck to crack open the Tangerines' defence with Steven Fletcher's fortuitous 79th-minute winner.
Newly arrived substitute Mario Vrancic floated over a delicately weighted free-kick from the left with his first touch which defender Harry Souttar met beyond the far post with a thunderous right-foot volley.
But the ball smacked against the left upright straight back into the path of Fletcher - and the ball went in off his thigh for his third goal in two games.