Aston Villa take on West Ham at the London Stadium in the Premier League this afternoon (2pm kick-off).
Unai Emery's side were downed 4-0 at home to their closest Champions League rivals Tottenham Hotspur last Sunday and arrive in the capital looking to return to winning ways in the league. Villa managed to progress in the Europa Conference League and reach the quarter-finals by beating Ajax 4-0 on Thursday night, while West Ham thrashed Freiburg 5-0 at home.
The Hammers have been in indifferent form having won two of their last nine league games, but those victories over Brentford and Everton came in their last three. Meanwhile, Villa have won their last three away league games against Sheffield United, Fulham and Luton and are unbeaten in seven on the road in all competitions.
West Ham are unbeaten in their past eight Premier League home games against Villa since a 2-1 loss in April 2011 under Avram Grant and Villa are looking to complete the Premier League double over West Ham for just the second time after winning 4-1 at Villa Park back in October.
Villa are unbeaten in eight Premier League games in London under Emery, winning the past four in a row, having lost eight of their previous nine under Steven Gerrard and Dean Smith. It's their longest run without defeat, and joint-longest winning run in the capital in their league history.
Villa are without their captain John McGinn, who begins serving a three-match ban this afternoon. Ollie Watkins could be involved despite sustaining a deep cut on his knee which forced him off in the first half of Villa's win over Ajax on Thursday night.
Stay tuned for build-up, live coverage and post-match reaction from the London Stadium with our Villa correspondent John Townley.
Key Events
Emery's reaction
Unai Emery, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "Good afternoon. We didn't control the game in the first half. We were not progressing to impose our position. When they are connecting with their attacking players, they scored one goal. We changed tactics in the second half and we got chances to score a goal and in the end we did score. The second half, we deserve it more than the first half. The referee decided it was handball.
"We had a plan before the match and the plan can change. The players had to be ready and focussed in case we needed them like today. Zaniolo is working and he is focussed.
"In this Premier League level it is difficult because the set piece takers are good. It is important to not concede set pieces. Overall, I think tactically in the second half we dominated and imposed our position.
"It's better to win but we draw and I think it's good and we have to accept it."
Zaniolo's reaction
Nicolo Zaniolo speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "It was a very good match. The first half they were more aggressive but we played well in the second half. Our team is very good. We competed well today and we have to fight.
"It will be very hard [the top-four fight] but we are a very good team. We have a very good coach and we prepare very well."
Player ratings
Here are the player ratings from Villa's 1-1 draw with West Ham
FT: West Ham 1-1 Villa
It's all over at the London Stadium. It certainly feels like a point gained for Villa. Ratings to follow...
VAR rule out West Ham goal
90+10: After a long, long VAR review, West Ham have had a goal ruled out. That would've been a sickener for Villa.
Excellent from Cash
90+2: Ward-Prowse looks certain to score on the counter, but Cash puts in a heroic block. Top, top defending.
GOAL: West Ham 1-1 Villa
Nicolo Zaniolo restores parity for Villa at the London Stadium. He stabs the ball past Alphonse Areola after being picked out by Moussa Diaby
Konsa chance
75 - Bailey puts a whicked ball into the box, but Torres can't quite get on to the end of it. The ball then falls to Konsa inside the box, but his strike at goal is blocked. It's about as close as Villa have come to an equaliser in this half.
76 - Villa are on top and you get the feeling more chances will come. They need to take one.
Villa pushing for equaliser
69 - Cash crashes into the box and takes the ball in his stride, but his cross is blocked for a corner. Luiz goes short to Digne, who finds Tielemens. The Belgian's effort from the edge of the box is saved by Areola.
70 - West Ham have settled for their goal and are now playing for counter attacks. It's up to Villa to break them down now.
Villa changes
63 - Alex Moreno and Morgan Rogers have both come off. Nicolo Zaniolo and Lucas Digne replace them.
Villa on top
60 - Bailey wins a corner for Villa after he was picked out on the right by Torres.
61 - Villa take the corner quickly, but Diaby's cross is cleared.
61 - Villa are starting to threten in the final third now. West Ham have dropped back to soak up pressure.
62 - Bailey's effort is blocked. His corner is then cleared by West Ham.
Villa require more zip
56 - Bowen whips in a corner but Konsa manages to clear to the far post before Cash boots the ball away.
58 - Villa move into the final third with numbers, but they play a pass too many, allowing West Ham to get back in their shape.
VAR overturns West Ham goal
48 - West Ham thought they had doubled their lead. Michail Antonio stood his ground in front of Emi Martinez and directed the ball in, but VAR has ruled it out after it came off the striker's arm.
Second half starts
Matty Cash and Moussa Diaby have both come on. Clement Lenglet and Jhon Duran have been replaced.
HT: West Ham 1-0 Villa
Villa trail at the break after Michail Antonio put West Ham ahead in the 29th minute. Unai Emery's side controlled the ball in the first half, but struggled to progress through the thirds.
First half ratings: Martinez 6, Konsa 6, Lenglet 6, Pau 7, Moreno 6, Luiz 6, Tielemans 5, Bailey 6, Rogers 5, Duran 6, Watkins 6.
Villa's response
35 - Kudus wins a corner for West Ham. Emerson's cross is cleared by Villa.
36 - Villa remain in control of the ball after going behind, but haven't created a chance to score. West Ham are strong at home so this will be a big test for Emery's side.
GOAL: West Ham 1-0 Villa
West Ham take the lead through Michail Antonio, who heads past Emi Martinez from close range.
Coufal chance
26 - Duran holds off Mavrapanos well to lead a counter-attack for Villa. Watkins chases the ball down the left, but his cross towards Duran was caught by Areola.
27 - West Ham have the best chance of the game so far as Coufal drives the ball towards goal from inside the box. The ball deflects off Moreno before Martinez makes the save.
West Ham attacking
20 - Martinez gives the ball away too cheaply from a goal kick, allowing West Ham to continue attacking. Villa manage to clear the ball to Duran, who wins a foul under pressure from Mavrapanos.
21 - A few moments later, Duran loses the ball, leading to a West Ham corner. This is West Ham's best spell so far.
22 - Martinez punches Bowen's corner away from danger.
Villa on top
15 - Watkins wins a corner for Villa, but Tielemans' cross doesn't reach a teammate.
17 - Villa have controlled the first 20 minutes of the game, but are yet to make a clear chance to open the scoring.
18 - Rogers drives forward again but his effort was too tame. Areola saves comfortably.
19 - Coufal crosses the ball for Bowen, who lays off Paqueta to striker from the edge of the box. His effort goes wide after the ball deflected off Soucek.
Watkins effort
10 - Rogers tries to play a cute pass to Torres near Villa's penalty box, but Antonio latches onto it and wins a corner for West Ham.
11 - Bowen's corner is flicked on at the near post by Paqueta, but the ball goes over the bar.
12 - Rogers does well to ride a tackle from Alvarez in the middle of the pitch, but he gets his feet mixed up and leaves the ball behind him.
13 - Bailey finds Watkins in the box, but at a tight angle his effort is blocked by Areola.
Villa enjoying possession
8 - Martinez puts Villa in trouble by playing a blind pass inside his own box. Soucek intercepts but Tielemans bails his teammate out by nipping in and winning the ball back.
8 - Villa are yet to put an attack together but are enjoying possession.
9 - Rogers manages to push the ball forward to Watkins, who then tries to find Duran in the box, but West Ham defend well.
Bowen offside
3 - Bowen is flagged offside after he strikes towards the far corner. Martinez was on hand to save his effort anyway.
3 - Konsa wins a foul just outside Villa's box after Kudus tripped him up. He's okay to continue but isn't moving too cleverly at the moment.
5 - Duran is fed the ball down the line but he fails to hold it up on the right side.
Kick-off
Morgan Rogers gets us underway at the London Stadium. Villa will kick towards the away fans in the second half.
Villa are playing in their away kit - white shirts, sky blue shorts and white socks.
I'll bring you updates every few minutes from the London Stadium...
Final thoughts
The players are about to come back out on to the pitch ahead of kick-off. Villa have an opportunity to essentially void thier defeat to Spurs last time out after they lost to Fulham on Saturday.
Interesting team selection from Unai Emery, who hands Jhon Duran his first Premier League start. He'll play alongside Ollie Watkins - excited to see how that dynamic works. Morgan Rogers and Leon Bailey supporting them makes for a dangerous frontline for Villa.
Cash: Villa must take games as they come
Matty Cash does not want to get bogged down in the UEFA co-efficient conundrum which could see a fifth-placed Premier League finish earn Champions League qualification.
“We have spoken about that in meetings,” the right-back said. “We are not looking too far ahead, I know it’s not the answer you want to hear.
“But it’s what we speak about, our main focus right now is obviously to bounce back from a defeat we didn’t want. That is all we are focusing on.
“Our main focus is to finish as high as we can. We don’t want to put too much pressure on ourselves, what we have done is focus on the next game. I know that’s cliche, but that’s all we can do.
“That’s got us this far with our mentality and the way we perform. We want to finish as high as we can, we are very ambitious, the owners, the fans, we all want to do as well as we can. We just want to focus on each game.”
Emery: Villa can cope with workload
“Now the players have to be ready, have to be professional, playing matches and recovering, being intelligent and professional because now playing next week in the national teams - we have lots of players doing a debut in Europe this year but are playing with the national team, for example Watkins and Konsa are with the England national team but before they didn't play there and now they have to be ready to play more than one match a week.
“This is the way. This is the process and the progress here. Playing today is hard to play on Sunday. We have to recover on Friday, focus on the match on Saturday and be ready to play.”
Sutton’s prediction
Chris Sutton is tipping Aston Villa to get over their European heroics quicker than West Ham and defeat them this afternoon.
Sutton told BBC Sport: "Both these teams were in action in Europe on Thursday night and it's going to be interesting to see how much those ties take out of them, but I still think Aston Villa will win this one. Villa have more quality than the Hammers, as they showed when they beat them 4-1 in October.
"Unai Emery's side always create chances and, even in their 4-0 defeat against Tottenham last time out, if they had been more clinical then it would have been a very different game."
Sutton’s prediction: West Ham 1-2 Villa
Dealing without McGinn
"I can’t say anything negative about him," Emery said about his captain. "My experience with him here, there is no doubt, I can always be proud of him even with a red card like on Sunday. For us he is very important. His mentality to help the team in different position is always very positive.
"His performances are always more or less doing his work and being brilliant. Sometimes we need more offensively, sometimes defensively but always he is ready to play and ready to do his best.
"This year he was scoring goals, playing a lot of matches and now he is going to rest compulsory. He was sad on Sunday and he was responsible. I know he was very disappointed but we had to try to be positive and move on. We were losing 2-0 and he was trying to put the team on his back.
”He did one action. He knows it was a difficult moment but we will move on, tomorrow he is playing and on Sunday he is resting and we have other players ready to play. He will move on."
