On october 2010
Aston Villa returns to Carling Cup and Carlos Cuellar wants to be in the starting lineup at Burnley. After the defeat by Sunderland in the Premier League, the villains hoping to improve on the Carling Cup against a team of lower division, but no less dangerous.
Gerard Houllier knows how to win the League Cup and hopes in a tournament he won twice as manager of Liverpool. After playing the final last season, Aston Villa hopes to forget Saturday's loss with a win that moral and move forward in a tournament that has not won since the season 95-96.
The bad news for Villa: the injury of captain Petrov, who will be gone after injuring his knee against Sunderland. Houllier will make several changes and entry to players who are playing less minutes.
Carlos Cuellar, Lichaj and midfielders Barry Bannan and Sidwell could be in the starting lineup at Burnley.
The spanish central defense has not played since the 1-2 victory against Wolves, hopes to continue to make its strength on defense (after several days on the bench) and help the villains to go to the next round and break his goal drought, that has lasted 254 minutes.
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