Manager
Unai Emery
Villa host Nottingham Forest at Villa Park still without a win from their first three matches — a heavy defeat at Brighton, a narrow home loss to Arsenal and a goalless draw at Hull — and the one change to Unai Emery's otherwise settled group is forced rather than tactical: Matty Cash is out injured, handing a first Villa start to deadline-day arrival Aaron Wan-Bissaka at right-back. Suzuki has owned the gloves since replacing Bizot after the Brighton mauling, Jackson has nailed down the number 9 shirt since coming in for GW2, and Mings' selection ahead of Torres in the most recent game at Hull looks set to continue. Gomes, sent off in the GW1 defeat, remains out of the picture entirely, and none of the club's other listed absentees (Madjo, Onana, Manzambi) had been featuring beforehand.