Aston Villa v Chelsea Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday afternoon.

[TheSandman]

Hesk, L. Young and Albrighton are out.

Carew, Beye and Ireland to start.

I'm now even less confident than I was...

[PaulWinch again]

Come on you Villa boys

[Rigadon]

No Albrighton means one of Young or Downing playing right wing - something they both look uncomfortable with.  Shame.  Be good to see Ireland play off Carew mind.   

[eamonn]

Beye? Fook, turn up for the books. Let's hope he plays better than his nightmare against Wien Rapid.

Full teams anyone?

[richard moore]

No Albrighton means one of Young or Downing playing right wing - something they both look uncomfortable with.  Shame.  Be good to see Ireland play off Carew mind.   

If Carew decides to play which is a big 'if' these days...

[armra1972]

Gonna be a tough game, come on Villa!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

    * 01 Friedel
    * 03 Warnock
    * 05 Dunne
    * 23 Beye
    * 29 Collins
    * 06 Downing
    * 07 Young
    * 09 Ireland
    * 19 Petrov
    * 20 Reo-Coker
    * 10 Carew

Substitutes

    * 22 Guzan,
    * 21 Clark,
    * 24 Cuellar,
    * 04 Sidwell,
    * 17 Salifou,
    * 25 Bannan,
    * 14 Delfouneso

[Nelly]

Beye! Wow, I'd forgotten about him!

This is going to be tough, but come on Villa!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Chelsea

    * 01 Cech
    * 02 Ivanovic
    * 03 A Cole
    * 19 Ferreira
    * 26 Terry
    * 05 Essien
    * 07 Ramires
    * 12 Mikel
    * 15 Malouda
    * 39 Anelka
    * 44 Kakuta

Substitutes

    * 22 Turnbull,
    * 17 Bosingwa,
    * 38 Van Aanholt,
    * 43 Bruma,
    * 18 Zhirkov,
    * 46 McEachran,
    * 45 Borini

[Chris Jameson]

I looked at the Villa bench and thought that it looked very poor but then realised I hadn't heard of most of Chelsea's subs.

[The Man With A Stick]

How do Dunne and Beye get in ahead of Cuellar?  Hmm.  Oh well, come on the Villa.

[Rigadon]

Cuellar on bench again.  We're due a decent Dunne performance today and I have a feeling he'll score from a corner - this seems to be something we've forgotten how to do.

[eastie]

Interesting to see beye get the call ahead of cuellar but nice to see players in their natural position I guess- let's hope Carew has one of his good days !

[supertom]

I'm not confident in Beye and Carew, but hopefully they'll both have "on" games.

As for Chelsea, that's the worst side I've seen them put out in years, so fingers crossed we pull something out the bag.

This is a big game for Ireland, his first in his preferred position.