Miller banned

Roy Keane will be without midfielder Liam Miller for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League match at home to Aston Villa.

Miller was sent off in last weekend’s 2-0 defeat at Chelsea and must serve a three-match ban.

Kieran Richardson has returned to training after a back injury but is still a number of weeks away from a first-team return, as is Nyron Nosworthy (hamstring) and Carlos Edwards (broken leg).

Keane must decide whether to stick with Darren Ward in goal or bring back expensive summer signing Craig Gordon, who has been out of the team for the last two matches.

Provisional squad: Gordon, Ward, McShane, Halford, Harte, Higginbotham, Collins, Yorke, Etuhu, Leadbitter, Wallace, Whitehead, Kavanagh, O’Donovan, Jones, Chopra, Connolly, Murphy, Stokes, Cole.