Three points can only take you so far. Tonight, Southampton could climb as high as seventh, while Stoke can dream of shifting up to eighth. 

West Brom are at home to Swansea, and Watford are at Manchester City.

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Stoke make three changes to the side that lost 3-1 at Arsenal on Saturday. 

Centre-back Marc Muniesa drops out for returning captain Ryan Shawcross, Jonathan Walters comes back from injury to replace Mame Biram Diouf and Glenn Whelan takes Giannelli Imbula's spot in midfield.

Stoke XI: Grant; Johnson, Shawcross, Martins Indi, Pieters; Whelan, Adam; Shaqiri, Allen, Arnautovic; Walters

Subs: Muniesa, Bony, Diouf, Imbula, Given, Crouch, Bojan. 

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Southampton make four changes to the side that beat Middlesbrough 1-0 at home on Sunday.

Ryan Bertrand replaces Sam McQueen at left-back, Steven Davis is in for Jordy Clasie in midfield, Nathan Redmond replaces Dusan Tadic and Shane Long starts as Jay Rodriguez drops to the bench.

Southampton XI: Forster, Martina, Fonte, Van Dijk, Bertrand, Davis, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Boufal, Long, Redmond. 

Subs: Yoshida, Clasie, Rodriguez, Tadic, Hojbjerg, Taylor, McQueen.

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Mark Hughes' 400th game as a Premier League manager sees his 12th-placed Stoke side welcome Southampton, who are eleventh.

Two teams with European aspirations, only one way up the table.

Let's do this.

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