The Gameweek continues with a pair of Sunday encounters, beginning at the Britannia as Mark Hughes transformed Stoke outfit take on troubled Norwich. Following that, Liverpool have the opportunity to make up ground on the early pace setters as they make the trip to the Stadium of Light to face rock bottom Sunderland under the stewardship of Kevin Ball.
The early team news sees Hughes name an unchanged XI from the side that lost at Arsenal last weekend. This sees site cult favourite Marko Arnautovic line up on the Potters’ left, while Erik Pieters has recovered from the problem that kept him out of the midweek cup win over Tranmere. Peter Crouch and Stephen Ireland warm the bench again after both found the net in Wednesday’s win over the lower league side.
For Norwich, Chris Hughton makes as many as four alterations after last weekend’s home defeat at the hands of Villa. Seb Bassong fails to recover from a hamstring injury and drops out along with Javier Garrido, Nathan Redmond and Johan Elmander – Ryan Bennett, Martin Olsson, Alex Tettey and Anthony Pilkington are the replacements. Midweek goal hero Gary Hooper is on the bench again after bagging a brace in the cup win at Watford.
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