Aston Villa vs Blackburn Rovers Match Updates

Saturday, January 29th, 2011 at 1:00 pm , filed under FA Cup by Craig Farrell

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The England FA Cup football match between Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers kicks off at 13:00 GMT. Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers will play in fourth round of the English FA Cup on Saturday 29th January 2011 at Villa Park – Birmingham.

Aston Villa is now up to 13th position in the table and holds a six point lead over Wigan in 18th position and the final relegation spot. The two recent League wins have pushed Villa up the table and given them some breathing space from the relegation zone.

Aston Villa has played twelve English Premier League matches this season on Villa Park. On home ground, Villa has W5, D4 and L3 matches, scoring 16 goals and conceding 13 this season. In the English Premier League, Villa’s is ranked #11th in the home team performance.

The Villa manager has no fresh injury fears following Tuesday night’s 2-1 win over Wigan Athletic but are still without Fabian Delph and Stephen Ireland – who both have knee injuries.

Currently, Blackburn Rovers stands at 8th position in the Premier League table, accumulated 9 point and have played 12 English Premier League matches this season away from home. On away ground, Blackburn did not play well away from home and has W3, D1 and L8 matches, scoring 14 goals but conceding 27 in those games.

In the English Premier League, Riversiders is ranked #13th in the away team performance, as survival is still the main priority this season. However, Blackburn has won 2 of the last three meetings between the sides in all competitions, but they generally do not have the best recent record against the Villa.

Possible starting XI:

Aston Villa: Friedel, Cuellar, Collins, Dunne, Clark; Albrighton, Petrov, Makoun, Downing, A Young, Agbonlahor

Blackburn: Robinson, Salgado, Samba, Givet, Olsson, Hoilett, Dunn, J Jones, Pedersen, Kalinic, Santa Cruz.

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