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Aston Villa are nothing if not consistent at home this season.

Their three victories at Villa Park have all been 2-1 against bottom-half opposition and have each been spaced three months apart.

Their last home win? 3 March - just over a month ago. Uh oh...

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QPR boss Chris Ramsey on his team selection: "We have got a couple of injuries down the left hand side in Yun Suk-young and Eduardo Vargas so we had to make the changes. But I'm confident that those players coming in will do what they need to."

On building on Saturday's 4-1 win at West Brom: "The performances have been good recently, we were just fortunate that we took our chances at the weekend. The scoreline flattered us a little bit but hopefully we will build on that tonight."

On his friendship with Tim Sherwood: "Tim will adapt to the players he has got at Villa and he's a talented coach so I'm sure he will manipulate them to the best way for his club. Our friendship goes out of the window tonight. Then hopefully we will still be talking after the game!"

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Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood: "I've not built up this game - it speaks for itself. It is one we need to win and we think we have got the players to win this game tonight."

On his friendship with QPR boss Chris Ramsey: "Chris is a great lad and a good friend of mine but we put all that aside for tonight. I hope at the end of the season we're both safe.

"Is it the biggest game of my managerial career? One million per cent."

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QPR boss Chris Ramsey is contracted to the club until the end of the season and fears he will find it tough, external to find another managerial job if he is not kept on.

His long-term prospects at QPR would certainly be damaged if they were relegated, meaning Tim Sherwood could actually push his mate closer to the sack if Aston Villa win tonight. Still, it might not be all bad, with Sherwood hinting Ramsey would have a job at Villa should the worst happen.

"If there was ever an opportunity for me to work with him again I would do that," he says. "I would have to speak to the club about whether we could find a role for him here. He is up there with the very best coaches I have ever seen."

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Former Nottingham Forest boss Stuart Pearce: "What Tim Sherwood gives you is a freshness - ask him a straightforward question and he will give you a straightforward answer.

"However, if the crowd start to get edgy and turn on the team, they are destined to get relegated. It is important fro all the teams near the bottom to keep the fans behind them."

Ron Vlaar is the name which most Aston Villa fans will be pleased to see on Tim Sherwood's teamsheet. The Netherlands centre-back, who has struggled with calf and knee injuries, returned to the bench in Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Manchester United and now replaces Jores Okore in the back four.

Full-backs Leandro Bacuna and Kieran Richardson also return, along with midfielders Tom Cleverley - who was ineligible to face his parent club at Old Trafford - and teenager Jack Grealish.

QPR boss Chris Ramsey makes a couple of enforced changes from Saturday's 4-1 win at West Brom. Full-back Yun Suk-young and winger Eduardo Vargas both came off injured and are replaced again by veteran pair Clint Hill and Niko Kranjcar.

QPR midfielder Leroy Fer: Come on ladssss! Same as saturday.. You can do it!

Phil Roberts: Glad #Sherwood has shaken the team up! Big chance for Jack Grealish to shine! The three in midfield are vital and need to compete!

Ian Talbot: 1 point not enough tonight considering next two fixtures are Away vs Spurs & Man City. Massive, MASSIVE game for AVFC

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Not watching their side play top flight football would be an alien concept for many Aston Villa fans.

The last time they plied their trade in the second tier of English football was back in 1988, a year when a 19-year-old Kylie Minogue was dominating the charts with "I should be so lucky", shell suits were commonplace and footballers' hairstyles were magnificent.

When you consider the fact Villa have spent almost three decades in the top flight, Tim Sherwood is probably not far off the truth when he says this is the club's biggest game in years...

It's a big night at the top end of League One where Bristol City could move even closer to promotion.

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Victory over Swindon tonight could put the leaders just one more win away from going up - if MK Dons lose at home to Scunthorpe.

However, Swindon have every incentive to put a spanner in the works. The two clubs are fierce local rivals and Mark Cooper's side needs the three points in one of their games in hand over second-placed Preston to sustain hopes of making it into an automatic promotion slot.

A 3-0 home defeat to MK Dons last Saturday did nothing to help their cause but history is on their side with Swindon unbeaten in their last 10 games against City.

The Dons have revived their promotion hopes with three straight victories and face a Scunthorpe side which ended a nine-match winless run with a 2-0 success against Peterborough last Friday.

Finally, Sheffield United are looking to cement their top-six place with a fourth win in five games. They host a Doncaster side which has slipped out of the play-off picture thanks to just one win in six games.

After all the drama at the top end of the Championship over the Easter weekend, tonight's focus is on the bottom of the table.

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The tide has already gone out for Blackpool, whose relegation was confirmed by Rotherham's 1-0 win over Brighton yesterday.

Opponents Reading aren't mathematically safe and will want to get the job done before they face Arsenal in an FA Cup semi-final on 18 April.

However, Steve Clarke's team has lost three and drawn one of their last four away games so won't take anything for granted against a Blackpool side which is without a win since the end of January.

Fulham also need the points to guarantee their Championship survival thanks to a run of just two wins in 13 games. Kit Symons' side faces a tricky trip across London to face a Charlton line-up which has won four of its last five home games but did suffer defeat in the capital on Good Friday when they were beaten 2-1 by Millwall.

That result kept some pressure on Fulham as Millwall are seven points behind the Cottagers - beaten 4-1 at home by Brentford on Friday - who are one place clear of the drop zone.

This is not the only game we have tonight, with a sprinkling of Football League fixtures taking place. Here's a bit more on what to watch out for...

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Tim Sherwood will be hoping Ron Vlaar will display the battling qualities he is after tonight.

The Aston Villa skipper is in the side having recovered from a calf injury and, with his contract expiring in the summer, Sherwood will want Vlaar to prove his worth.

"We all know what he has done over the years but when people are putting their hands in their pockets to fork out money, they want to know they are getting value," says Sherwood. "He will have far more options open to him if he is in the shop window that's for sure."

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Tim Sherwood has certainly chosen an interesting way of geeing up his players for tonight's game, saying he doesn't have a squad of battlers capable of grinding out results.

"You look through QPR's side and they've got a lot of players who are men - with a lot of experience in there," he says. "We've got a few men in there - but we've got a lot of pretty much icing-on-the-cake players and I'm trying to get that mentality into them to forget about digging out results.

"It's not what we're cut out to do. I haven't identified many players who can't cope with the pressure, but you don't know until they get out there."

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Plenty of reminders in the tunnel at Villa Park of Aston Villa's rich history. Will that be enough to motivate the current crop of players in the run-in?

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Aston Villa skipper Ron Vlaar is named in the starting XI following recent injury in one of five changes for the hosts. QPR bring in left-back Clint Hill and winger Niko Kranjcar as they make two changes.

Villa XI: Guzan, Bacuna, Vlaar, Clark, Richardson, Cleverley, Delph, Sanchez, Grealish, Agbonlahor, Benteke.

QPR XI: Green, Isla, Onouha, Caulker, Hill, Phillips, Sandro, Barton, Kranjcar, Austin, Zamora.