Ashley's absent for visit of Reds

Young has started all 19 of Villa's league games to date this season but will have to serve a one-game ban after collecting his fifth yellow card of the campaign against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Villa boss Martin O'Neill has hinted he may make changes, particularly with Liverpool having an extra 24 hours to recover following their Boxing Day victory over Wolves. The likes of John Carew, Nigel Reo-Coker, Habib Beye, James Collins, Steve Sidwell and Fabian Delph will come into the equation for possible starts against Rafael Benitez's side. Villa (from): Friedel, Guzan, Luke Young, Beye, Dunne, Collins, Cuellar, Clark, Warnock, Milner, Petrov, Downing, Sidwell, Reo-Coker, Delph, Gardner, Agbonlahor, Carew, Heskey, Delfouneso, Albrighton.