Monday night’s Premier League action comes from the Britannia Stadium where Stoke City host league leaders Chelsea.

Having recently lost three games on the bounce, Mark Hughes’ side have taken four points from their last two games and go in to the match in thirteenth place.

Victory here would see them move into the top half of the table at the expense of Liverpool, who left it late to salvage a point against Arsenal yesterday afternoon.

Bojan Krkic should be fit enough to feature after recovering from the hip injury he picked up in last weekend’s draw at Crystal Palace while Marc Muniesa and Stephen Ireland are also in contention.

Peter Crouch is a 11.0 (10/1) shot to get the first goal of the game with Bet Victor, with Jonathan Walters a 15.0 (14/1) chance with the same firm.

The home win is as highly priced as the 7.0 (6/1) on offer from Bet Victor, with the visitors favourites at the widely available price of 1.62 (8/13). The draw is 4.0 (3/1) with a variety of firms.

Jose Mourinho’s men made it three straight wins in all competitions after beat Derby County to book their place in the semi-finals of the Capital One Cup on Tuesday evening.

In the league, they remain top but are now level on points with Champions Manchester City who beat Crystal Palace on Saturday afternoon.

Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois is set to return after missing the last two games with a muscular injury while Didier Drogba and Kurt Zouma are also available despite picking up knocks in the midweek win in the East Midlands.

Top scorer Diego Costa is favourite to open the scoring at 4.5 (7/2) with Bet Victor, who price Eden Hazard at 7.0 (6/1) following an impressive run of form that has seen the Belgian score three in his last four games.

Chelsea have won five of the last six meetings between the sides though Stoke took all three points in last season’s corresponding fixture.

All five of those victories for the Blues came to nil, so you may be tempted to back them to win without conceding here at 2.5 (6/4) with a number of firms.