James McClean's second goal of the season saw Stoke City ride out their injury concerns to beat Rotherham United.
A host of absences forced manager Michael O'Neill into six changes from Tuesday's defeat at Swansea.
But McClean's first-half goal, via route one, was enough to give the re-jigged Potters a fourth win of the season and move them up to eighth in the table.
Rotherham barely threatened an equaliser as they failed to build on their midweek win over 10-man Sheffield Wednesday.
It was a fourth defeat of the new campaign for Paul Warne's side, who slip to 19th, and came about through their failure to deal with a long ball midway through the first half.