Burnley came up from the Championship last season via the play-offs and rightly didn't go crazy
bringing in new players before predictably heading back down to the Championship without too many
heading for the exit. They were soundly beaten 4-0 at home by Reading last weekend, two of the
starting line-up Brian Jensen and Tyrone Mears started every Premiership game the season before and
five others had at least a dozen Premiership starts under their belts.
Burnley came up from the Championship last season via the play-offs and rightly didn't go crazy
bringing in new players before predictably heading back down to the Championship without too many
heading for the exit. They were soundly beaten 4-0 at home by Reading last weekend, two of the
starting line-up Brian Jensen and Tyrone Mears started every Premiership game the season before and
five others had at least a dozen Premiership starts under their belts.
Aston Villa
- 1 Brad Friedel
- 30 Eric Lichaj
- 24 Carlos Cuellar
- 21 Ciaran Clark
- 23 Habib Beye
- 4 Steve Sidwell
- 20 Nigel Reo-Coker
- 12 Marc Albrighton
- 25 Barry Bannan
- 7 Ashley Young
- 9 Stephen Ireland
Subs
- 6 Stewart Downing
- 35 Daniel Johnson
- 14 Nathan Delfouneso
- 18 Emile Heskey
- 22 Brad Guzan
- 29 James Collins
- 50 Jonathan Hogg
Burnley
- 1 Lee Grant
- 2 Graham Alexander
- 3 Daniel Fox
- 4 Michael Duff
- 5 Clarke Carlisle
- 18 Leon Cort
- 8 Dean Marney
- 10 Martin Paterson
- 14 Tyrone Mears
- 19 Jay Rodriguez
- 22 Ross Wallace
Subs
- 9 Chris Iwelumo
- 11 Wade Elliott
- 12 Brian Jensen
- 15 David Edgar
- 21 Andre Bikey
- 24 Brian Easton
- 30 Steven Thompson
In a late change, John Carew pulled out during the warm-up, Stephen Ireland replaced him in the
starting XI and Daniel Johnson (academy player) will sit on the bench.
