Premier League tie face Stoke City, standing 11th, and Aston Villa, standing 7th, Britannia Stadium , kicks off at 15:00 13 March 2010.

Aston Villa will be eager to keep their quest for a top four spot when they travel to Stoke City at The Britannia.

The visitors are actually four points away of fourth placed Tottenham, regardless of Martin O'Neill's team do decisive have two games in hand.

Villa are unbelievable to have their own way this weekend as Stoke have lost just four of fourteen league games on home ground this season, while they reached a 3-2 success in the last match they met.

Regardless of Stoke City home performance has not been so good lately with Tony Pulis men winning just two of their last seven at Britannia Stadium. The wins came against Blackburn and Fulham.

A win for Stoke would see them a two points away of that magical 40-point mark.

Stoke held 1-1 with Burnley on Wednesday and it will be exciting to see whether Pulis could motivates his side against a Villa team in the way that beat Reading in the FA Cup last Sunday.

O'Neill has no injury worries as Villa raise the speed for a spell of five league matches in 15 days as they play catch-up after their Carling Cup and FA Cup success this season.

Verdict: Stoke City vs Aston Villa 1-2