Teamsheets: Aston Villa vs Stoke City

When Gary McAllister was asked whether he would be picking the team or Gerard Houllier, he said that if they lost it would be Gerard’s team and if they won it was his. He was joking of course, but as it’s an unchanged side, it doesn’t really matter:

Aston Villa		Stoke
1	Brad Friedel	1	Asmir Begovic
36	Kyle Walker	28	Andy Wilkinson
29	James Collins	17	Ryan Shawcross
5	Richard Dunne	4	Robert Huth
2	Luke Young	12	Marc Wilson
6	Stewart Downing	24	Rory Delap
19	Stiliyan Petrov	6	Glenn Whelan
20	Nigel Reo-Coker	16	Jermaine Pennant
7	Ashley Young	26	Matthew Etherington
18	Emile Heskey	9	Kenwyne Jones
39	Darren Bent	19	Jonathan Walters
Subs		Subs
33	Andy Marshall	29	Thomas Sorensen
24	Carlos Cuellar	5	Danny Collins
21	Ciaran Clark	14	Danny Pugh
8	Robert Pires	15	Salif Diao
17	Jean II Makoun	18	Dean Whitehead
12	Marc Albrighton	25	Abdoulaye Faye
11	Gabriel Agbonlahor	10	Ricardo Fuller

There are seven other Premiership games today, Utd and Everton currently being played, and there’s a real opportunity for some separation in the table when the final whistles are blown.