Sorensen może zagrać...
Eidur Gudjohnsen, Jermaine Pennant and Marc Wilson will all hope to feature but Pulis may opt to ease them in gently and introduce them off the substitutes' bench.
Striker Kenwyne Jones is ready to start following an ankle injury after proving his fitness in a midweek friendly match against Crewe.
Goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen is also hopeful of starting after missing Denmark's Euro 2012 qualifier last week because of an infection in an elbow problem he sustained against Wolves.
Possible starting XIs
Stoke: Sorensen, Huth, Faye, Shawcross, Collins, Delap, Whelan, Whitehead, Etherington, Walters, Jones.
Aston Villa: Friedel, L Young, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, A Young, Petrov, Reo-Coker, Downing, Albrighton, Carew.
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