The teams are out, the fans are in full voice and we're almost ready to go.

Rights restrictions prevent us from being able radio coverage of tonight's match here on the BBC Sport website and app.

But have no fear, if you're in either the West Midlands or Greater Manchester area, you can tune your radio to BBC WM 95.6 or BBC Radio Manchester to hear their commentary from Villa Park.

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Having signed a new five-year contract in September, Villa fans can relax knowing Jack Grealish will only be signing autographs in the next season at least (barring a mega-money deal from a top club no doubt!).

But the Villa fans will hope he can end his goal drought soon - he's not scored this season, in fact he hasn't found the net since getting the only goal in a home win over Cardiff on 10 April.

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• Aston Villa have never lost a home league match against Bolton Wanderers outside the top flight.
• Since their goalless draw at Wembley in the 2000 FA Cup semi-final, there has been at least one goal scored in 27 matches Villa have played against Bolton in all competitions.
• Villa, who have lost their past two league games, have not lost three in a row since their run of five successive losses under Steve Bruce in February 2017.
• Bolton have managed just two goals in their past eight Championship games, failing to score in each of their two.
• New Villa manager Dean Smith has faced Bolton three times in the Championship - with Brentford - and won all three matches.
• Bolton boss Phil Parkinson was manager of Bradford City when they beat Villa over two legs in the 2012-13 League Cup semi-final.

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Bolton must be wishing it was still the heady days of the summer heatwave back in late August.

Everything seemed rosy and content in the Wanderers garden after three wins from the first four league games.

But, Phil Parkinson's side have recorded just one more victory in the 11 games since and are also the Championship's joint-lowest scorers with just 11 goals.

Only bottom-placed Ipswich and fourth-from bottom Rotherham have scored as few. The Trotters have also failed to score in four of their past five league matches.

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Villa come into this evening's match against Bolton 17th in the table and reeling from back-to-back defeats by Norwich City and QPR.

It already seems a far cry from their win against Swansea City last month that greeted new management duo Dean Smith and John Terry's first match in charge before a sell out crowd.

Will home comforts come to Villa's rescue this evening against a very out-of-sorts Bolton side two places and two points behind them.

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Aston Villa make two changes from the side that lost 1-0 at QPR last Friday.

Conor Hourihane returns to the midfield while Albert Adomah (pictured above) comes in on the wing - Ahmed Elmohamady and the injured Birkir Bjarnason make way while Yannick Bolasie gets a place on the bench again.

Phil Parkinson brings in five new faces to his Bolton side following their 1-0 loss at home to fellow strugglers Hull City.

Andrew Taylor, Jason Lowe, Will Buckley, Craig Noone and David Wheater come in, while Josh Vela, Lloyd Dyer, Christian Doidge, Mark Beevers and Marc Wilson make way.

Hello and welcome to tonight's live coverage of Aston Villa v Bolton in the Championship here on BBC Sport.

Both sides could do with the points as they sit towards the wrong end of the table - will Phil Parkinson's Trotters get an unlikely three points or can Dean Smith's Villains end a two-game losing streak?