All the latest from the 1.30pm GMT kick-off at Villa ParkThe 100 best male footballers in the worldEmail Simon | or tweet @Simon_Burnton 12.51pm GMT So Luke Ayling returns after two months out and goes straight into the starting XI for Leeds, replacing Jamie Shackleton. Jack Harrison comes in for Lewis Baker.Villa also make two changes: Jonathan Kodjia comes back into the starting XI after getting a goal and an assist in a 24-minute substitute appearance against Stoke, while James Bree, who hasn’t started a game since early October and who has made the matchday squad once in their last 10 games, replaces the presumably injured Axel Tuanzabe. 12.34pm GMT The team sheets are in, and these are the names upon them:Aston Villa: Nyland, Elmohamady, Bree, Chester, Hutton, Whelan, Bolasie, Hourihane, McGinn, Kodjia, Abraham. Subs: Hogan, Davis, Bjarnason, El Ghazi, Bunn, Adomah, Revan. Leeds: Peacock-Farrell, Ayling, Jansson, Phillips, Douglas, Forshaw, Harrison, Hernandez, Klich, Alioski, Roofe. Subs: Huffer, Baker, Davis, Shackleton, Clarke, Halme, Gotts. Referee: Andrew Madley.Team news: Our line-up for the clash with @LUFC this afternoonKick-off is 1.30pm.#PartOfThePride #AVFC pic.twitter.com/JCBoJwi8u5 | #LUFC Starting XI presented by @Ladbrokes:-Peacock-Farrell, Ayling (c), Douglas, Jansson Phillips, Klich, Harrison, Alioski, Hernandez, Forshaw, Roofe pic.twitter.com/IBvldKVkiG 10.15am GMT Hello world!Aston Villa and Leeds go into this match with the most beautifully balanced head-to-head statistics, with their 84 previous league meetings having seen 28 draws, 28 Villa wins and 28 Leeds wins. That’s so deliciously poised it’s almost a shame they have to play again. But play they must, and both come into this game in good form: Villa are unbeaten in seven, having won four of those games, scored at least twice in all of them and led in all but one. Leeds meanwhile have won all five games since their last visit to the Midlands in November, when they lost 4-1 at West Brom. Continue readingreadfullarticle
