The team news has been announced for Aston Villa vs Leicester City in the Premier League.

Unai Emery and Ruud van Nistelrooy have named their starting lineups and substitutes for this afternoon’s English top tier clash at Villa Park.

Both teams will be eager to achieve a positive result to kick off 2025 with this the first fixture of the new year for each. As Leicester are a newly-promoted side, Villa will see this as a must-win game to get back into Champions League contention.

Following last time out’s 2-2 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion, Unai Emery’s team are six points adrift from the top four. That may seem like a sizeable gap but there are still 19 games to go and a win today would help a great deal.

Leicester, meanwhile, will be desperate for a victory of their own as they’re currently 19th in the league, two points away from safety. The Foxes would almost certainly be happy with a draw this afternoon given how tough of a ground Villa Park is to visit.

Today’s hosts have made three changes from the draw with Brighton, replacing Diego Carlos, Pau Torres and Morgan Rogers with Matty Cash, Tyrone Mings and Ross Barkley. The visitors, on the other hand, have swapped out two of their starters from the recent 2-0 defeat to Manchester City. Here are both teams in full.