Eden Hazard, Diego Costa and John Terry all start as Jose Mourinho names a strong Chelsea team for the trip to Stoke. Ryan Shawcross starts for the first time since May for the hosts.

Full team news to follow.

There's also Scottish League Cup action tonight as Inverness Caledonian Thistle face Ross County and Greenock Morton take on St Johnstone in the quarter-finals.

Inverness CT v Ross County is on BBC One Scotland at 19:05 GMT, and you can also watch the game online here.

BBC Radio 5 Live

There's League Cup build-up from 19:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live, before commentary on Stoke versus Chelsea at 19:45.

If you fancy listening to Sheffield Wednesday versus Arsenal, then that game is on 5 live sports extra. You can choose to listen to either of the commentaries on this page.

Anyway, that's enough about Jose Mourinho for now, because there are other games in the fourth round of the League Cup tonight:

• Everton v Norwich 19:45
• Hull v Leicester 19:45
• Sheff Wed v Arsenal 19:45

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Is Jose Mourinho cracking under the pressure? I've just read that he has mentioned, external Arsene Wenger in press conferences this season more times than Chelsea have actually won games.

Has a manager at your club had an obsession with someone or something? Maybe you have an obsession with someone in football? If so, who and why? 

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It genuinely is a cold Tuesday night in Stoke...

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Needing a result in the League Cup on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke is probably not something that was considered even a possibility for Jose Mourinho before this season started. That, though, is arguably the case. 

With just one win in Chelsea's last six games, Mourinho - and the club's fans - could certainly do with a morale-boosting result tonight ahead of this weekend's crunch Premier League clash with Liverpool.

Some newspapers are suggesting, external Mourinho is on borrowed time. Losing tonight is unlikely to be the end of his tenure at Stamford Bridge, but losing to both Stoke and Liverpool could potentially cause damage beyond repair.

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Back in March, television cameras captured former Big Breakfast presenter Johnny Vaughan squeezing through a delirious crowd to point at Jose Mourinho and enthusiastically declare his love for the Chelsea boss.

That was in the minutes after the Blues beat Tottenham 2-0 to win the 2015 League Cup - Mourinho's first bit of silverware in his second spell at the Blues.

For Chelsea fans, that must seem like a lifetime ago after what has been a disastrous start to the season. 

Far from being loved, Mourinho is now a man under pressure and needing to turn things around sooner rather than later...

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