Bradford City vs. Aston Villa, League Cup Semifinal: Lineups and Open Match Thread

Bradford City Starting XI: Darby, Hanson, Duke, Atkinson, McHugh, Jones, Hines, Wells, McArdle, Doyle, Good

Bradford City Bench: McLaughlin, Ravenhill, Reid, Jones, Hannah, Connell, Turgott

Aston Villa Starting XI: Shay Given, Joe Bennett, Ciaran Clark, Nathan Baker, Matthew Lowton, Barry Bannan, Fabian Delph, Andreas Weimann, Charles N'Zogbia, Gabby Agbonlahor, Christian Benteke

Aston Villa Bench: Brad Guzan, Stephen Ireland, Darren Bent, Eric Lichaj, Enda Stevens, Samir Carruthers, Graham Burke

That is a pretty seriously attacking lineup for Villa, suggesting to me that Paul Lambert is looking to put the tie to bed as early as possible. It's not a bad decision in my eyes, because the longer Bradford hangs around the more confident they're likely to become. I'd really prefer the return leg to be one big party as opposed to 90 minutes of torture, so here's to hoping the Villa boys can take care of things today and give themselves a nice cushion. Because while I'm fairly confident now, if things are still level at this time next week that's not going to be the case.