On november 2010
Former Arsenal winger Robert Pires could make his debut for an Aston Villa side depleted by injuries. Agbonlahor and Dunne are expected to be fit, while Clark and Ireland hope to return from respective injury and illness. Other injuried: Beye & Weimann (both ankle), Carew & Cuellar (both calf), Delph, Heskey, Petrov & Reo-Coker (all knee), Sidwell (Achilles).
Blackburn midfielder Brett Emerton is a major doubt after injuring his hamstring on international duty.
The game will come too soon for injured quartet Martin Olsson, Steven Nzonzi, Keith Andrews and Vince Grella.
Rovers’ win at Ewood Park against Wigan ended a run of four home matches without a win for Blackburn.
Rovers have only lost six out of 36 Premier League home games under Sam Allardyce, but the first of those was against Aston Villa.
Villa have only won one of their last seven Premier League away games.
Gabriel Agbonlahor has scored in three of the last four Premier League games against Blackburn.
Blackburn and Villa have met six times since the start of last season, twice in the league, three times in the League Cup and once in the FA Cup with Villa all four Cup games and Rovers the two in the league.
Rovers have only won two of the last 12 meetings in all competitions with Aston Villa while the Midlanders have won nine.
There have been five goals scored in the last 10 minutes of the last four league meetings between Rovers and Villa.
Blackburn have committed more fouls than any other team, 190.
Aston Villa have dropped more points from winning positions (12) than any other team in the Premier League.
Blackburn and Aston Villa are the only teams not to have gained a single point from a Premier League match in which they have been trailing this season.
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