15:00 BST / 16:00 CET | Aston Villa vs. Arsenal [Premier League]

Arsenal return from their defeat in Dortmund to travel to Aston Villa in the Premier League on Saturday.

The Gunners were convincingly beaten by Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday night in their opening UEFA Champions League group stage match. More bad news on the injury front for the Gunners as Jack Wilshere picked up a knock on his ankle.

Arsenal have draw three consecutive matches in the Premier League and are yet to keep a clean sheet this season. Including their Champions League playoff matches with Beşiktaş, the Gunners have won only one of their last six matches in all competitions.

Aston Villa have surprised most people with their start to the season, picking up 10 points from four points to put them in second place heading into the weekend.

Paul Lambert’s side were 1-0 winners at Liverpool last weekend with goalkeeper Brad Guzan being called into just a solitary save – such was the great defending by his teammates.

The Villans defence has been rock solid this season with Hull City’s Nikica Jelavić the only player to stick the ball in the back of the net past them in 360 minutes this season.

Team News

Aston Villa

Ron Vlaar missed last weekend’s victory over Liverpool with a calf injury and is a doubt for this weekend too. Nathan Baker put in a man of the match performance as his replacement at Anfield.

Both Christian Benteke and Libor Kozák have been injured since last season. The Belgium striker is back in training but is not ready to return this weekend.

Arsenal

Theo Walcott is another week or two away from returning. Mathieu Debuchy is out with an ankle injury. Jack Wilshere and Nacho Monreal both have knocks but are expected to be fit if called upon on Saturday.

Oliver Giroud remains a long-term absentee.

Possible line-ups

Aston Villa: Guzan, Hutton, Baker, Senderos, Cissokho, Westwood, Delph, Cleverley, Richardson, Agbonlahor, Weimann

Arsenal: Szczęsny, Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Arteta, Cazorla, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sanchez, Welbeck

This is a very big game for us, IF we loose this our confidence (if we have any left after the last game) will be sent rocketing downwards to the bottomless pit. I am NOT feeling confident all a point out of this considering the way we are playing would be a good result. However, we have the players that can win this game if the put a decent shift in so COYG FFS grow some balls and make us proud.