Nothing like Aston Villa to surprise you, right? Who’d have expected that?

Who’d have expected any of this? It’s been a rollercoaster from start to finish and we’re heading for the home straight. Tonight, Villa take on Leeds in their penultimate home game before the regular season ends.

If you want some reading, here is a match preview that we did with the Leeds blog, Through It All Together. An open match thread will be up on site for you to comment in also.

A big thanks to Bennett Berry for creating all of our match-day images throughout the season. Give him a follow.

Also, please note that as of the 12th of April, Aston Villa matches will no longer be available on mainstream US television. ESPN have launched ESPN +, a subscription service where they will be sticking Championship games.

TV and Streaming

Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

Location: Villa Park, Birmingham, England

Kick-off time: 19.45 pm UK, 14.45 am Eastern, 11.45 am Pacific

Weather: Should be dry, slightly mild and windy in Aston with small chance of rain

Open Match Thread: Join in the comments here!

Available TV: Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football in the UK, BeIn Sports 2 in Australia.

Available video streaming: ESPN+ in the US, Now TV or Sky Go in the UK, BeIn Sports Connect in Australia

Other listings are available from livesoccertv.com.

Available radio: Talksport 2, BBC WM 95.6 FM (not online), AVTV (If audio doesn’t work, try using Safari).

Twitter: You can find our live updates @7500toHolte, and we’d also recommend @VillaReport for updates as well.

Since it is a televised tie in the UK - this match will NOT BE LIVE STREAMED on AVTV, for an international audience. For future reference on AVTV, here’s all you need to know compiled by Phil Vogel.

Reading Material

Choose your preview: We’ve got THREE for you. Statistical, a word with the opposition or traditional. A trinity, so give all of them a good read.

XV: Alex Carson spoke volumes about Villa’s charity work, after gifting second place to Fulham. Give it a read, this column is the best bit of Villa writing out there.

Injuries

Aston Villa will be without Alan Hutton, Jed Steer and Axel Tuanzebe while Birkir Bjarnason and John Terry are also doubts after missing the Cardiff match.

Leeds United will miss a legion of players. Pontus Jansson is out due to concussion protocols (fair play on that). Luke Ayling as well as Laurens De Bock, Conor Shaughnessy and Liam Cooper will all miss out as well as Eunan O’Kane AND Adam Forshaw. Finally Gaetano Beradi will also miss out due to suspension.

Aston Villa squad

Leeds squad

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