- Wesley and Vidigal selected up-front
- McNally and Thompson start
- Pearson, Chiquinho and Mmaee on the bench
Stoke City manager Alex Neil has made three changes to his starting XI with Wesley, Luke McNally and Jordan Thompson all selected to start against Watford.
Ben Pearson, Chiquinho and Ryan Mmaee will commence the encounter on the bench, with McNally set to form a central defensive trio in-front of Mark Travers alongside Michael Rose and Ben Wilmot.
Jordan Thompson joins Josh Laurent and Daniel Johnson in central midfield with Ki-Jana Hoever and Enda Stevens operated on the right and left flanks respectively.
Andre Vidigal and Wesley will commence the contest up-front.
Stoke City: Travers, McNally, Rose, Wilmot, Hoever, Thompson, Laurent (C), Johnson, Stevens, Vidigal, Wesley. Subs: Bonham, Okagbue, Tymon, Pearson, Sidibe, Chiquinho, Gayle, Mmaee, Lowe.
Watford: Bachmann (C), Hoedt, Porteous, Livermore, Louza, Sema, Bayo, Dele-Bashiru, Martins, Morris, Andrews. Subs: Hamer, Ince, Kone, Healey, Pollock, Chakvetadze, Aprilla, Kayembe, Collins.