Manchester City defender Pablo Zabaleta serves a one-match suspension for accumulating five bookings this season.
Forward Mario Balotelli returns after a ban, and Gareth Barry and Jerome Boateng are both hoping to overcome ankle complaints.
Stoke City
Doubtful: Pennant (hamstring), Walters (groin), Wilkinson (knee)
Injured: Sidibe (Achilles)
Manchester City
Suspended: Zabaleta (one match)
Doubtful: Barry & Boateng (both ankle)
Injured: M Johnson (knee), Nimely (ankle)
MATCH PREVIEW
It's back to where it all began for Roberto Mancini, who enjoyed a winning start as Manchester City manager against Stoke 11 months ago.
Journalists continue to say I am under pressure, I am not under pressure... When you have worked for Inter Milan for four years it is impossible to be under pressure
Man City boss Roberto Mancini
There was speculation that the Italian's tenure would be brought to a premature end following dismal goalless stalemates against Manchester United and Birmingham City, so Mancini must have afforded himself a wry smile at the ironic cries of "boring, boring City" as his side dismantled Fulham at Craven Cottage last Sunday.
He has a team that looks ready to hit their stride, especially now he can finally pick from a virtually full-strength squad for the first time this season. After spending a king's ransom over the summer, a combination of injuries and suspensions denied Mancini the chance to select a host of his marquee signings such as Mario Balotelli, Jerome Boateng and Aleksandar Kolarov, but they are now primed to help City's assault on a first league title since 1968.
Stoke, though, are full of confidence after answering a run of four straight defeats with three successive wins, helping them rise from 17th to eighth in the table in just 11 days.
With the rub of the green from referees now seemingly going their way, and an undefeated Premier League record in this fixture at the Britannia Stadium, Tony Pulis's side will be confident of again taking City's scalp.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
• Manchester City have only lost one of their last seven league games against Stoke, 1-0 at the Britannia Stadium in January 2009.
• The last time the visitors won at the Britannia, in January 1999, the sides were playing in the third tier of English football. Gerard Wiekens scored the only goal.
• This is the 96th meeting between the sides. Man City have won 40, Stoke 35 and there have been 20 draws.
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Stoke City
• Stoke are chasing a fourth successive win in the top flight for the first time since they won their last two matches of the 1980/81 season and the first two of the following campaign.
• Jon Walters came on as a substitute against West Brom and his contribution was three shots, two goals and one pass in 11 minutes.
• The Potters have the worst first-half goalscoring record in the Premier League this season, scoring just twice, but remarkably have the joint best second-half record so far with 16 goals.
Manchester City
• City have kept seven clean sheets in the league this season, second only to Chelsea's eight.
• Roberto Mancini's side remain as the only side yet to score a headed Premier League goal this season. Their last top-flight header came from an unlikely source - Shaun Wright-Phillips against West Ham on the final day of last season.
• They have won the last 17 Premier League matches in which Carlos Tevez has scored, stretching back almost a year. He has scored 30 goals in his last 36 Premier League games.
LEADING GOALSCORERS
Stoke City
Jones: 6 goals (4 league); Walters: 4 goals (3 league)
Manchester City
Tevez: 9 goals (9 league); Adebayor: 5 goals (1 league)
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Peter Walton
Assistant referees: Mike Cairns & Andy Newbold
Fourth official: Phil Gibbs
LAST LEAGUE MATCH LINE-UPS
Stoke City (W3-0 v West Brom, a): Begovic, Wilkinson, Shawcross, Huth, Collins, Pennant (Sanli 11), Whitehead, Delap, Etherington (Walters 79), Jones, Fuller (Wilson 83). Subs not used: Sorensen, Higginbotham, Whelan, Gudjohnsen.
Manchester City (W4-1 v Fulham, a): Hart, Zabaleta, Toure, Kompany, Kolarov, Toure Yaya, De Jong, Barry (Vieira 82), Jo, Tevez (A Johnson 77), Silva (Milner 89). Subs not used: Given, Wright-Phillips, Adebayor, Boyata.
Source: BBC Sport
Source: BBC Sport