Aston Villa welcome Wolves to Villa Park this lunchtime needing a big performance in their fight against relegation.
Villa are yet to win since the restart, drawing with Sheffield United and Newcastle and losing to Chelsea.
They need victories to move out of the bottom three but host a Wolves side this weekend who are bang in form.
They have seen off West Ham and Bournemouth since the restart and will be confident of getting another win to boost their European push.
Wolves beat Villa 2-1 back in November thanks to Raul Jimenez’s winner.
Aston Villa vs Wolves: How to listen
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Aston Villa vs Wolves: Team news
Aston Villa have no fresh injury concerns ahead of the visit of Wolves.
Frederic Guilbert is set to return from his injury and Danny Drinkwater and Henri Lansbury could be included too.
Wolves also have no new fitness problems.
Pedro Neto is pushing to start having impressed from the bench in their last two outings.
Romain Saiss is one yellow card away from a two-match
Aston Villa vs Wolves: Match stats
- Aston Villa have lost just one of their last 14 home games against Wolves in all competitions (W10 D3), going down 0-1 in the Premier League in March 2011. Indeed, the Villans have already beaten Wolves at Villa Park this season (2-1 in the EFL Cup).
- Wolves are looking to complete a league double over Aston Villa for the first time since the 1962-63 campaign.
- Aston Villa have picked up just two points from their last 21 available in the Premier League (W0 D2 L5).
- Aston Villa’s last six Premier League wins have been against sides in the bottom half of the table. They’re winless in their last 19 top-flight games against sides starting the day in the top six (D2 L17), losing each of the last 13 in a row.
- Wolves have won six Premier League away games this season – they last won more on the road in a single top-flight campaign in 1979-80 (10).
- Wolves have kept six clean sheets in their last seven Premier League matches (W4 D3), facing just 11 shots in their last two games combined and only four in their 1-0 win over Bournemouth.
- Aston Villa have won more fouls than any other Premier League side this season (411), with 35% of these being won by Jack Grealish alone (144).
- Wolves duo Raúl Jiménez and Adama Traoré have combined for 10 Premier League goals this season, only the seventh time in Premier League history that two players have combined for 10 or more goals in a single season.
- Wolves’ Raúl Jiménez is the top scoring Premier League player in all competitions this season, netting 24 goals. The last time a Wolves player netted more in a single campaign was Sylvan Ebanks-Blake in 2008-09 (25).
- No player has netted more winning goals in the Premier League this season than Wolves’ Raúl Jiménez (7), with the Mexican scoring the winner in each of their last three victories in the competition.


