Craig Gardner’s wishes were answered when Villa’s 20 man squad to travel to Hamburg was named:-

• Brad Friedel
• Luke Young
• Steve Sidwell
• Marlon Harewood
• Stuart Taylor
• Nathan Delfouneso
• Curtis Davies
• Zat Knight
• Moustapha Salifou
• Stiliyan Petrov
• Nigel Reo-Coker
• Nicky Shorey
• Brad Guzan
• Carlos Cuellar
• Craig Gardner
• Barry Bannan
• Shane Lowry
• Chris Herd
• Ciaran Clark
• Zoltan Stieber

(from avfc.co.uk)

Let’s hope they play like they have something to prove. Because they do.

The game will be shown live on Channel 5 in the UK and Setanta in America.