Aston Villa v Birmingham City, 12.00

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Aston Villa are set to be boosted by the availability of Stiliyan Petrov, Richard Dunne and Stephen Warnock for Sunday’s showdown against Birmingham City at St Andrew’s. The trio were all injured in Villa’s 2-0 win at Hull City on Wednesday. Petrov has been under treatment for a groin problem that forced him off in the closing stages against Hull. Dunne suffered a gashed head in a collision with Hull striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, while Warnock picked up an ankle problem. But the three are expected to be fit with manager Martin O’Neill likely to retain the side that started at Hull.

Birmingham strikers Cameron Jerome and James McFadden have been passed fit for the derby clash at Aston Villa on Sunday. Jerome, City’s leading scorer with 10 goals, has shaken off a back problem which has troubled him in recent weeks. McFadden was substituted with a groin strain during the goalless home draw with Hull last weekend but has recovered and resumed training.

Aston Villa (from): Friedel, Guzan, Cuellar, L Young, Beye, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Downing, Reo-Coker, Milner, Petrov, Sidwell, A Young, Carew, Agbonlahor, Heskey, Delfouneso, Davies, Albrighton, Clark.

Birmingham City (from): Hart, Carr, Johnson, Dann, Ridgewell, Gardner, Ferguson, Bowyer, Fahey, Jerome, McFadden, Larsson, Phillips, Taylor, Benitez, Michel, Parnaby, Vignal.

looking forward to this

I've a sneaking feeling Birmingham will take something from this.

Going for a 1-1 draw.

JPA

VILLA: Friedel; Cuellar, Dunne, Collins, Warnock; A Young, Downing, Milner, Petrov; Agbonlahor, Carew. Subs: Sidwell, Guzan, Beye, L Young, Delfouneso, Heskey, Reo-Coker.



Blues: Hart, Carr, Bowyer, Ridgewell, Larsson, Jerome, Ferguson, Johnson, McFadden, Vignal, Gardner. Subs: Taylor, Phillips, Benitez, Madera, Fahey, Parnaby, Tainio.

5-1 Villa.

OneColdHand

JPA wrote: »

VILLA: Friedel; Cuellar, Dunne, Collins, Warnock; A Young, Downing, Milner, Petrov; Agbonlahor, Carew. Subs: Sidwell, Guzan, Beye, L Young, Delfouneso, Heskey, Reo-Coker.

Wow! Never would have predicted that lineup!

matrim

OneColdHand wrote: »

Wow! Never would have predicted that lineup!

Now that's not fair, Clark might have made the bench

Raekwon

Quietly confident about this game - I predict 3-1 to Villa!

What are the odds of Heskey coming off the bench to put this game to bed against his former club? Stranger things have happened

Kiwi_knock

Raekwon wrote: »

Quietly confident about this game - I predict 3-1 to Villa!

What are the odds of Heskey coming off the bench to put this game to bed against his former club? Stranger things have happened

More likely Phillips to come on and grab a goal.

Frisbee

Right. In. The. Beak.

Helix

7am is no time to be up on a sunday morning for football

bleurgh

Esse85

Helix wrote: »

7am is no time to be up on a sunday morning for football

bleurgh

You know you love it.

Everything hinges on this game for Villa.

Bounty Hunter

Helix wrote: »

7am is no time to be up on a sunday morning for football

bleurgh

yeah but these 7.30 pm kick offs are a dream to watch over here in Taiwan on a Sunday evening

Helix

fecker

Raekwon

Off the hook there! Dunne was half asleep :eek:

MagicMarker

What a save by Hart.

Now quite sure why Birmingham were happy to stand still when the ball was cleared after the corner, you'd think they'd push up!

Esse85

"Why does it always rain on me"

Not what I wanna be hearing as a villa fan.

Helix

Esse85 wrote: »

"Why does it always rain on me"

Not what I wanna be hearing as a villa fan.

good to get a bit of depeche mode in before it tho

JPA

Carew not playing great, he needs to release the ball quicker.

Helix

mightnt be a bad game to introduce another goalscoring local lad to the derby...

Esse85

Helix wrote: »

good to get a bit of depeche mode in before it tho

I was liking the last song there in all.

Downing to score so Helix?

Raekwon

Birmingham are getting too close for comfort here! Squeaky bum time!

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birmingham should be 1 up

Raekwon

Interesting statistic there, if Villa win today then they will be the first team to win 6 consecutive Second City Derby games in a row in the 100+ history of games between the two teams.

Helix

Esse85 wrote: »

I was liking the last song there in all.

Downing to score so Helix?

yeh got a feeling hes gonna do something

Raekwon

Freidel is having a blinder!

Raekwon

Heskey for Carew........would have preferred to see Fonz come on instead.

Brum the better team so far

Raekwon

SOOOOOOOO close for Heskey!

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peno

get in there

mike65

Ah boo, peno wrong wrong wrong!

Raekwon

PENO!

Frisbee

Never a peno.

mike65

fcukityfcuk

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get in there

HUGE goal for Villa's season.

Raekwon

YES

Get in!

Milner the legend!

Bounty Hunter

Milner \0/ 1-0

bang! straight down the middle

shoutman

Harsh peno, i'm not complaining.

Come on villa!

Helix

yes

come on, dont lose this lead lads!

17th pen of the season, absolutely unbelievable

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villa fans cant complain about the refs anymore

MagicMarker

lol, if Phillips scores....

noodler

Fairly dishonest stuff by Gabby there.

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poor Birmingham were robbed

JPA

FANTASTIC result.:D
Poor performance.

Helix

a win for city midweek and its gonna be in our own hands i reckon

Savman

YES!

Bounty Hunter

Brum were hard done by as they prob didnt deserve to lose but.... they did

Villa now joint 4th with a game more played.

matrim

We got lucky in the end with the peno, there was a touch but it did take me about 3 views to see it.

Raekwon

Massive win for Villa! We got the rub of the green today because Birmingham played out of their skins and threw everything but the kitchen sink at us but Collins, Dunne & Freidel were eminence at the back today.

That's put a huge smile on my face!

invinciblePRSTV

Excellent stuff, Villa tired after 3 games in a week but still enough to show blues who's boss.

UTV

Villa very lucky to get the 3 points.

Massive result for them though. Looking good for 4th

Esse85

Fantastic result.

Im even more happy that it was never a peno.