Aston Villa vs Birmingham City: Championship match preview, confirmed line-ups and talkSPORT 2 live commentary stream

Aston Villa vs Birmingham City: Championship match preview, confirmed line-ups and talkSPORT 2 live commentary stream
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.Villa Park will be a full house when the teams lock horns on Sunday lunchtime3
Villa Park will be a full house when the teams lock horns on Sunday lunchtime
However, Dean Smith’s men will be confident they can get the three points as they have won their last two games, including a 3-0 dismantling of Frank Lampard’s Derby County.Meanwhile, Garry Monk’s Birmingham have not won since October so go into the clash as the underdogs.

What 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.”Monk has promised his players will put in maximum effort against the Villans3
Monk has promised his players will put in maximum effort against the Villans

Confirmed 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, JutkiewiczWill Dean Smith taste victory in his first Second City derby as Villa boss?3
Will Dean Smith taste victory in his first Second City derby as Villa boss?


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