Potters boss Mark Hughes was set to include the winger, but it emerged on Friday evening he must serve a one-match suspension, picked up during his time at Inter Milan. Hughes is likely to have forward Marko Arnautovic back available as well as defender Marc Wilson, after the pair missed last Sunday's home loss to Liverpool due to thigh and ankle problems respectively.

Two other Stoke forwards will definitely not feature in Peter Odemwingie (hamstring) and Bojan Krkic, who is still not quite ready to make his first-team return after his long-term knee injury, while skipper Ryan Shawcross faces between two and three months on the sidelines following back surgery.

Provisional squad: Butland, Given, Muniesa, Wilson, Wollscheid, Bardsley, Pieters, Johnson, Cameron, Whelan, Van Ginkel, Ireland, Adam, Sidwell, Arnautovic, Afellay, Walters, Diouf, Crouch, Joselu.