{"id":12036,"date":"2017-04-07T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/2017\/04\/07\/picking-the-best-potential-stoke-city-lineup-to-face-liverpool-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:12:18","slug":"picking-the-best-potential-stoke-city-lineup-to-face-liverpool-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=12036","title":{"rendered":"Picking the Best Potential Stoke City Lineup to Face Liverpool on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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?Stoke City entertain Liverpool on Saturday having not won in their last 4 games in the Premier League, with their last win being at home a whole month ago.<\/p>\n

Its been a while since Stoke City demolished Liverpool 6-1 at the end of the 2014\/15 season, as they look to draw inspiration from that game knowing that they are more than capable of winning here on Saturday.<\/p>\n

However since then, Liverpool haven’t been too forgiving as they have taken maximum points from the Potters.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at Stoke City’s potential lineup for Saturday’s game…\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Goalkeeper<\/h2>\n
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    \"Grant\"\/<\/div>\n

    Grant<\/span>33<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    ?With number 1 keeper Jack Butland still ruled out, Lee Grant will continue in goal for the Potters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Defence<\/h2>\n
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      \"Johnson\"\/<\/div>\n

      Johnson<\/span>8<\/span><\/li>\n

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      \"Shawcross\"\/<\/div>\n

      Shawcross<\/span>17<\/span><\/li>\n

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      \"Martins<\/div>\n

      Martins Indi<\/span>15<\/span><\/li>\n

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      \"Pieters\"\/<\/div>\n

      Pieters<\/span>3<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

      Glen Johnson will likely return to the starting XI to face his former side with the right-back being the only change for manager Mark Hughes? in defence.<\/p>\n

      Ryan Shawcross will captain his side as they host Liverpool on Saturday and Martins Indi will look to keep impressing his manager in view of completing a permanent deal to sign for the club in the summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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      Midfield<\/h2>\n

      ?Ramadan Sobhi was an unused sub in the 1-0 loss at Burnley and is a doubt, but should be fine to feature here.<\/p>\n

      Stephen Ireland will definitely miss the game and\u00a0Mark Hughes is sweating on the fitness of Xherdan Shaqiri and Jonathan Walters.<\/p>\n

      The Stoke manager will look to pack the midfield with long-ball players and speed merchant wingers as they target Liverpool’s weakness; counter-attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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      Forwards<\/h2>\n
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        \"Berahino\"\/<\/div>\n

        Berahino<\/span>9<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

        ?Sadio Berahino will play up top alone in the 4321 formation where he will be asked to cause mischief among Liverpool defenders Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren.\u00a0<\/p>\n

        The Potters will look to breaking down attacks and hitting Liverpool on the counter with the former West Brom player looking for over the top balls.<\/p>\n

        If plan A doesn’t work, Wilfred Bony will be keen to get on the pitch to cause different types of problems for the Liverpool defence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        ?Stoke City entertain Liverpool on Saturday having not won in their last 4 games in the Premier League, with their last win being at home a whole month ago. Its been a while since Stoke City demolished Liverpool 6-1 at the end of the 2014\/15 season, as they look to draw inspiration from that game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stoke-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}