Stoke V Crystal Palace Barclays Premier League Match 24 -August 2013. Stoke's Charlie Adam, who played under Palace boss Ian Holloway at Blackpool, could come into the Potters' midfield.The hosts remain without Wilson Palacios, who is ill, and injured pair Brek Shea and Jamie Ness.Watch Stoke V Crystal Palace Live, Watch Stoke V Crystal Palace Live Stream, Watch Stoke V Crystal Palace Free Live Stream, Watch Stoke V Crystal Palace Online, Watch Stoke V Crystal Palace Online Free, Stoke V Crystal Palace Live, Stoke V Crystal Palace live stream Online.
Crystal Palace may hand a debut to Jason Puncheon, but fellow wingers Jerome Thomas (ankle) and Yannick Bolasie (hamstring) remain out.
Midfielder Jonathan Williams could be rewarded with a starting berth after impressing from the bench last week.
MATCH PREVIEW
Stoke and Crystal Palace are still looking for their first points, and indeed goals, of the new season yet I thought both were a little unlucky last weekend.
But for Jonathan Walters's penalty miss, the Potters would have picked up a useful point at Liverpool. That was his third miss from his last five spot-kicks and it will be interesting to see if Mark Hughes sticks with him as the club's regular penalty taker.
LAWRO'S PREDICTION
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"I think new Stoke boss Mark Hughes is trying to change the way they play and their mentality. They were patient and played a 4-5-1 against Liverpool at Anfield last week and passed the ball too.
"But, especially because they are playing Crystal Palace, they have to go for the jugular here."
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Stoke goalkeeper Asmir Begovic was the man of the match at Anfield and I expect the Bosnian to garner considerable transfer interest before the window closes.
This fixture is, of course, Mark Hughes's first home game as Stoke manager and I am keen to see how the City fans react to him.
The Potters faithful largely held his predecessor Tony Pulis in high regard. Without spending a fortune he managed to establish the club in the Premier League.
Even after last season's minor wobble, when his style was often criticised by the club's fans, he still led them to a creditable 13th place. The biggest testament to him is that Hughes hasn't yet made too many changes.
Hughes knows he needs to add goals to his team - only QPR (30) scored fewer than the Potters (34) last season.
The same argument can be made for newly-promoted Palace, who have lost 31-goal top scorer Glenn Murray to injury for the opening few months of the season and of course the precocious talents of Wilfried Zaha.
Record signing Dwight Gayle has been bought in to help plug the gap and has had a rapid rise from the non-league scene, Marouane Chamakh is not yet match-fit, Aaron Wilbraham has never been a prolific scorer, while Kevin Phillips, now aged 40, is a likely super sub this season.
It's a lack of Premier League experience that worries me about the Eagles. Danny Gabbidon aside, their starting line-up last weekend had less than 50 appearances at this level between them.
Hughes will be hoping his Stoke side, one bursting with Premier League know-how, will give him that dream home start of all three points.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
The two sides have met 12 times in English football's top division but never in the Premier League. Both clubs have five wins apiece.
Crystal Palace won the last league meeting 2-1 at the Britannia Stadium in April 2008. In total, the Eagles have won six of the last nine games between the clubs.
Stoke triumphed 4-1 in an FA Cup third-round replay between the sides last season; Jon Walters scored twice, while Kenwyne Jones and Cameron Jerome also found the net.
Stoke
Stoke won only one of their last six home matches last season, 1-0 against Norwich at the end of April.
Potters boss Mark Hughes has picked up only four points from his last 14 Premier League games. His last win, a 1-0 triumph in May 2012, came against Stoke while manager of QPR.
Jonathan Walters (92) has started more consecutive Premier League games than any other outfield player. He has, however, missed three of his last five penalties.
Crystal Palace
Excluding the Play-Offs, Palace won only six of 23 away Championship matches last season, losing 10 times.
The Eagles have won only one of their last 11 Premier League matches, a run of results that date back to their last top-flight campaign of 2004-05.
Crystal Palace have only ever won two of 19 Premier League matches in the month of August: away to Everton and Leeds in 1997. They have lost 10 times.
Ian Holloway's side have scored in just five goals in their last 13 matches.