Sunday afternoon’s Championship clash will be a huge one as Aston Villa welcome local rivals Birmingham to Villa Park – and you can listen to full commentary of the matchlive on talkSPORT 2from midday.Both teams are level on 24 points in the Championship table so there is a little more at stake than bragging rights in what should be a classic encounter.
3What the managers are saying
Dean Smith (Aston Villa): “They [Villa players] have to know the game plan and follow it but also keep calm.“We can’t be obsessed with beating Birmingham City, we have to be obsessed with winning every game.”Garry Monk (Birmingham): “This will be another level above that but we need to take that experience where we have gone to hostile places, big crowds, dealt with the game situation really, really well and managed the game how we wanted.”
3Confirmed line-ups
Aston Villa:Nyland; Hutton, Chester, Tuanzebe, Taylor; Whelan, Hourihane; Adomah, Grealish, Kodjia; AbrahamBirmingham:Camp; Colin, Morrison, Dean, Harding, Pedersen; Craig Gardner, Kieftenbeld, Mahoney; Adams, Jutkiewicz
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