Overview

• Live TV coverage is confirmed on Sky Sports+ with streaming available via Sky Go and NOW.
• Stoke arrive third in the table on 14 points from eight matches after three without a win, including a midweek 0-0 at Middlesbrough.
• Blackburn sit third-bottom and have lost all four home games in all competitions, with only two goals in their last four outings.
• Heavy rain and strong winds are forecast at Ewood Park, two weeks after Rovers’ Ipswich match there was abandoned and ordered to be replayed in full by the EFL.
• Mark Robins makes five changes for Stoke, recalling Tomas Rigo, Million Manhoef, Divin Mubama, Junior Tchamadeu and Aaron Cresswell, with Bosun Lawal sidelined by a hamstring injury.