With the carrot of a money-spinning tie against world champions Liverpool coming for whoever wins on Tuesday evening, it can be expected that Bristol City will field their very strongest team against Shrewsbury Town.
That will likely mean few changes from the side that beat Wigan Athletic 2-0 at the weekend.
Head coach Lee Johnson tends to reward a winning side and so for that reason we don't see too many changes to face the Shrews, who have drawn and lost since facing Bristol City at Ashton Gate.
In fact, when we boil it down we just see two changes - and both enforced: match-winner Jamie Paterson grabbing a place in the team at the expense of Marley Watkins, who may be out with a calf injury too.
Korey Smith came off with a dead leg at the weekend but he may be fit enough to play on with Josh Brownhill still recovering from a bruised foot.
However, Han-Noah Massengo could be left out after a heavy knock sustained to his ankle at the weekend against the Latics, with Adam Nagy returning to the side.
The Frenchman is young and will get better and better but is sometimes a little hit and moss away from home.
Meanwhile, with Tomas Kalas still missing the defence picks itself. While we all know that Andi Weimann is undroppable as a Lee Johnson favourite, and Famara Diedhiou is City's form man after several top displays of late.
Therefore we go with the following, meaning that Callum O'Dowda and Kasey Palmer are likely to miss out, along with Taylor Moore, Tommy Rowe and Pedro Pereira.
Predicted team (4-4-2): Bentley, Hunt, Williams, Baker, Dasilva; Eliasson, Nagy, Smith, Paterson; Diedhiou, Weimann
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