Aston Villa will be without striker Kevin Phillips, right-back Aaron Hughes and midfielder Lee Hendrie for Sunday's Villa Park clash with Middlesbrough.
Phillips will miss his fourth successive match with a calf strain, while Hughes is sidelined after undergoing hernia surgery that will also rule him out of Northern Ireland's World Cup qualifiers next month.
Hendrie misses out as he is having knee surgery today to repair cartilage damage, but Villa are set to be boosted by the return of striker Milan Baros after the striker missed last weekend's 2-1 defeat at Chelsea with the Achilles problem.
Aston Villa squad: Sorensen, Taylor, Samuel, Mellberg, Ridgewell, Cahill, Bouma, Milner, Berger, Bakke, Davis, De La Cruz, Djemba-Djemba, Barry, Baros, Angel, Moore.
Brazilian midfielder Fabio Rochemback returns to the Middlesbrough squad.
The 23-year-old was ineligible for last night's 0-0 UEFA Cup draw with Xanthi in Greece, but will be back to boost a squad which is again likely be without goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer and defender Ugo Ehiogu.
Midfielder Ray Parlour is definitely out with a knee problem, but striker Mark Viduka is hopeful of shaking off the Achilles problem which sidelined him for the trip to Xanthi.
Middlesbrough squad: Jones, Knight, Xavier, Queudrue, Pogatetz, Southgate, Riggott, Parnaby, Bates, Doriva, Boateng, Rochemback, Mendieta, Morrison, Johnson, Kennedy, Hasselbaink, Yakubu, Viduka, Maccarone.
