Wanderers have just one point from their last seven Premier League matches and they surrendered the chance to upset title chasing Arsenal in a five goal thriller last weekend by letting slip a two goal advantage.

Villa are on the back of three successive defeats having lost to Manchester United, Portsmouth and Sunderland in recent times so three points for the winner of tommorow's contest will help to end at least one barren run.

For Bolton, the inability to score goals since the sale of Nicolas Anelka has cost them dear, with only a handful of players managing to hit the target since the January sales.

However, one January recruit Matthew Taylor showed his goalscoring instincts with a double against Arsenal last week and they will be hoping the former Portsmouth man can continue on the goalscoring trail.

Bolton trio Gary Cahill, Gavin McCann and Jlloyd Samuel are all likely to feature in some capacity on their first return to Villa since switching between the two clubs.

Kevin Nolan will serve the second of a two game suspension and Jussi Jaaskelainen (back) and Ricardo Gardner (ribs) will now be joined by Nicky Hunt on the injury table after the young right back suffered a reoccurance of a shoulder injury in the last game.

Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill will have top scorer John Carew available again after injury  but midfielder Craig Gardner (thigh) and defender Curtis Davies (shin) will not be available.

The last few meetings between these two sides have more often than not ended in draws including Gary Megson's first game in charge of Bolton back in October when Luke Moore cancelled out an Anelka free kick.

In last season's corresponding fixture in December 2006, a late Gary Speed penalty gave Bolton the points at Villa Park at a time when they where about to go on a five game winning streak and aiming for a Champions League place.

LAST TIME WE MET:

28/10/2007 BOLTON WANDERERS 1 (Anelka) ASTON VILLA 1 (Moore)

BOLTON: Jussi Jaaskelainen, Joey O'Brien, Andy O'Brien, Abdoulaye Meite, Ricardo Gardner, Gavin McCann (Danny Guthrie), Ivan Campo (Gary Speed), Kevin Nolan, Kevin Davies, Nicolas Anelka (Jlloyd Samuel), El-Hadji Diouf

SUBS NOT USED: Stelios Giannakopoulos, Ian Walker (GK)

VILLA: Stuart Taylor, Olof Mellberg, Zat Knight, Martin Laursen, Wilfred Bouma, Ashley Young, Gareth Barry, Stilian Petrov, Isaiah Osbourne (Patrik Berger), Shaun Maloney (Luke Moore), Gabriel Agbonlahor

SUBS NOT USED: Marlon Harewood, Curtis Davies, Thomas Sorensen (GK)

PLAYED FOR BOTH:

Gary Cahill, Franz Carr, Neil Cox, Sasa Curcic, Gareth Farrelly, Stuart Gray, John Gregory, Gavin McCann, Kevin Poole, Jlloyd Samuel, Bryan Small, Alan Thompson

DID YOU KNOW:

Gary Speed scored for Bolton in two out of their last three visits to Villa Park.

Gavin McCann and Gary Cahill where in the Villa line up for Bolton's win at Villa Park just over a year ago.

Jlloyd Samuel scored a rare goal against Bolton in the second leg of the League Cup Semi Final in January 2004. Gavin McCann was dismissed in that game for striking Emerson Thome, his former Sunderland collegue.

Sammy Lee's first home game in charge of Bolton was a 2-2 draw with Aston Villa just under a year ago.

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