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Preview: Fulham vs. Stoke City

Preview: Fulham vs. Stoke
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Stoke City will be looking to end a run of three consecutive defeats when they meet Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday.

Stoke City will be looking to end a run of three consecutive defeats when they meet Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday.

The run has seen the Potters slip to 12th in the Premier League table, while Fulham could leapfrog their opponents with a win on home turf.

The visitors will be without Robert Huth after the defender lost an appeal over his red card in last weekend's defeat to Sunderland. Matthew Etherington is expected to return to the side after an illness.

Steve Sidwell, Orlando Sa and Zdenek Grygera are all sidelined for Fulham, but Andrew Johnson could find himself in the starting lineup after a groin problem.

Loan signing Pavel Pogrebynyak is waiting on clearance before he is given the able to make his Cottagers debut.

Current form:

Fulham: DWLWDL
Stoke: DWDLLL

Possible lineups:

Fulham: Schwarzer; Kelly, Hangeland, Baird, Senderos; Murphy, Duff, Etuhu, Davies; Dempsey, Johnson

Stoke: Sorensen; Shawcross, Wilkinson, Whelan, Woodgate; Etherington, Pennant, Delap, Walters; Crouch, Jerome

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