Aston Villa vs Swansea City: Team news, kick-off time, probable line-ups, odds and stats for the Premier League clash

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Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Aston Villa's home clash with Swansea City...

Team news

Aston Villa

Alan Hutton will return to the Aston Villa squad for the visit of Swansea after completing his ban but Tim Sherwood remains without skipper Ron Vlaar.

The captain remains sidelined with a calf problem and is out along with Philippe Senderos and Kieran Richardson (both calf), Nathan Baker (knee) and Aly Cissokho (groin).

Libor Kozak is training with the first team after recovering from a broken leg but is not match fit although Jack Grealish is back from suspension.

Provisional squad: Guzan, Given, Hutton, Lowton, Bacuna, Okore, Clark, Kinsella, Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, Grealish, Gil, Sinclair, Cleverley, Benteke, Agbonlahor, Weimann, Hepburn-Murphy.

Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood is preparing for the visit of former coaching coursemate Garry Monk

Swansea City 

Central defender Federico Fernandez is available for Swansea's Barclays Premier League visit to Aston Villa after missing Monday night's 1-0 home defeat to Liverpool.

Fernandez returned home to Argentina for what manager Garry Monk described as 'family reasons' and he was replaced by Jordi Amat at the heart of the Swansea defence.

But Fernandez has trained this week and is set to resume his partnership with skipper Ashley Williams, while Monk has no new injury worries for the Villa Park clash.

Provisional squad: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor, Cork, Ki, Shelvey, Routledge, Sigurdsson, Gomis, Tremmel, Rangel, Amat, Fulton, Carroll, Britton, Montero, Dyer, Emnes, Oliveira, Grimes, King.

Key match stats (supplied by Opta)

Swansea City have lost just one of their seven Premier League meetings with Aston Villa (W3 D3 L1).

Christian Benteke has scored in two of his three Premier League appearances against Swansea City.

Gabriel Agbonlahor has scored in two of his last three Premier League appearances against Swansea City.

Aston Villa ended a run of six home Premier League games without a win (W0 D3 L3) with victory last time out against West Brom.

Swansea’s last three Premier League away wins have all been by a 1-0 scoreline.

Barry Bannan and Darren Bent congratulate Christian Benteke on scoring Aston Villa's second goal in a 2-0 win over Swansea in September 2012 - Villa's last triumph over the Jacks

All six of Gabriel Agbonlahor’s Premier League goals this season have come inside the opening 37 minutes.

Villa have scored more goals in their last two Premier League matches (6) than they managed in the previous 13 (5).

Aston Villa have scored the highest proportion of first half goals in the top division this season (79 per cent).

No Villa manager has won three Premier League games in a row since Martin O’Neill in April 2010.

Only Everton (17) have dropped more points from winning positions than Swansea City this season (16).