Villa duo out

Aston Villa are without right-back Rob Edwards and midfielder Gareth Barry for tomorrow’s Villa Park clash with relegated Sunderland.

Villa also have a doubt over in-form striker Marcus Allback who picked up a thigh problem playing for Sweden against Croatia on Wednesday.

Welsh international Edwards will miss the final two games of the season after damaging ankle ligaments during the first-half of last Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Everton.

Barry is serving the second game of a two-match ban collected after picking up 10 bookings.

Jlloyd Samuel is set to switch flanks to replace Edwards with rookie Peter Whittingham bidding to make his first Premiership start.

Team (from): Enckelman, Postma, Johnsen, Mellberg, Samuel, Wright, Whittingham, Hendrie, Taylor, Hitzlsperger, Gudjonsson, De la Cruz, Dublin, Vassell, Allback, Angel, Kinsella, S Moore, Ridgewell, Crouch, Cooke, L Moore.