#2. Aston Villa versus Manchester United Location: Villa Park (Birmingham) Date: Saturday, November 13 Time: 7:45 a.m. Eastern Records (W-D-L, +/-, Place): Villa, 4-4-4, -3, 10th United, 6-6-0, +11, 2nd

Good morning, and welcome to Aston Villa, the early edition! While your editor, stuck in Pacific Standard Time, or daylight savings time, or whatever it is, won't likely be up in time to hand you real lineups, here's a guess:

(Please keep in mind that Gerard Houllier is a crazy Frenchman who likes to keep us all on our toes):

Aston Villa: Friedel--Warnock, Collins, Dunne, L Young--Downing, Clark, Bannan, Albrighton--A Young--Agbonlahor

Subs:Guzan, Lichaj, Beye, Lowry, Hogg, Johnson, Ireland, Delfouneso

(Sir Alex--not as crazy):

Manchester United: Van der Sar-- Brown, Vidic, Evans, O'Shea-- Nani, Carrick, Fletcher, Park-- Berbatov, Hernández

Subs: Kuszczak, Amos, Gibson, Anderson, Obertan, Smalling, Macheda, Fábio, Bebé, J Evans, Giggs