Watkins injured as Abraham and Luiz start, Henderson back for Brentfordpublished at 12:52 GMT
Aston Villa v Brentford (14:00 GMT)
Nick Mashiter
BBC Sport football news reporter at Villa Park
Ollie Watkins fails to recover from a hamstring injury to face Brentford as Tammy Abraham and Douglas Luiz makes their Aston Villa returns.
Unai Emery makes seven changes from Thursday’s 3-2 win over Red Bull Salzburg, where Watkins came off in the first half.
He is not in the squad but Abraham starts up front with Luiz also in after returning from Juventus on loan.
Emi Martinez, Lamare Bogarde, Jadon Sancho and Emi Buendia keep their places.
Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Torres, Konsa, Maatsen, Bogarde, Luiz, Sancho, Buendia, Rogers, Abraham
Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Digne, Mings, Barkley, Hemmings, Onana, Bailey, Elliott
Brentford boss Keith Andrew makes three changes at Villa Park.
Sepp Van den Burg, Jordan Henderson and Dango Ouattara come in following last week’s 2-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest.
Nathan Collins, Yehor Yarmoliuk and Mikkel Damsgaard drop to the bench.
Brentford XI: Kelleher, Henry, Ajer, Van den Berg, Kayode, Jensen, Henderson, Janelt, Schade, Thiago, Ouattara
Subs: Valdimarsson, Hickey, Pinnock, Yarmoliuk, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Damsgaard, Donovan, Bentt
