Delap blow for Potters

Stoke will be without long-throw specialist Rory Delap for tomorrow’s Premier League relegation clash at Sunderland due to suspension.

Delap starts a three-match ban after he was sent off against Manchester City last Saturday, but Pulis’s squad is bolstered by newcomers Henri Camara and Stephen Kelly.

Danny Pugh will continue at left-back as Danny Higginbotham remains sidelined with a calf injury.

Provisional squad: Sorensen, Kelly, Wilkinson, Shawcross, Abdoulaye Faye, Pugh, Cresswell, Amdy Faye, Diao, Whelan, Etherington, Beattie, Simonsen, Fuller, Camara, Griffin, Sonko, Lawrence, Kitson, Olofinjana, Tonge.