Sky Bet Championship
Aston Villa vs Bristol City
3:00pm Saturday 13th April
Villa Park
Aston Villa ar while not the suspended Tyrone Mings for the visit of port town.
The defender was sent off in Wednesday’s 2-1 persuade Rotherham and serves a one-game ban.
The on-loan Bournemouth man’s absence adds to Villa’s defensive headache with Tommy Elphick (foot) and Kortney Hause (hip) each troubled.
James metropolis has additionally been battling a swollen knee however, like Elphick, has came back to coaching.
Bristol town might be unchanged once they head to Villa Park.
Callum O’Dowda (knee) is nearing a come back to fitness and Korey Smith is also obtainable when missing the 3-2 persuade West Brom on weekday.
The midfielder has hardly came back from a heavy knee injury and was commenced within the closing stages of the win at Middlesbrough as a precaution.
Goalkeeper Frank Fielding is anticipated to be out for the remainder of the season with the hand injury he suffered in February.
H2H Aston Villa vs Bristol City
Aston Villa have won six of their last seven home league meetings with Bristol City, losing the other 0-2 in August 1979.
Bristol City are winless in four league meetings with Aston Villa (W0 D2 L2) since winning 3-1 in August 2016.
Aston Villa have won their last seven league games – they last recorded eight consecutive victories in April 1975.
Former Aston Villa forward Andreas Weimann has scored 10 league goals in 38 games for Bristol City this season – he had scored just 15 times in 124 previous Championship appearances (incl. play-offs) across five seasons before this campaign.
Score Prediction: Aston Villa 2-1 Bristol City
