As our Curbs will no doubt say "Today we welcome David O'Leary and all the directors of Aston Villa to a Premiership game at the Valley". Well, thats about as nice as we can allowed to be today. We need 2 wins and the 6 points to get to the holy grail that is 40 points and in my book it can't come quick enough. We only have 3 more home games against teams below us and we need to win at least 2 of them and as soon as possible before our squad starts getting detracted by thoughts of Wembley, sorry, Wales.

Villa's arrive here with a record on the road which is a good one with 4 wins, 5 draws and only 4 defeats. And with 18 goals scored and 18 conceded. Charlton are 6 games unbeaten at home while Villa are the same away and after a defeat away at Newcastle Villa will be looking to avoid successive defeats for the first time in 14 games. With an all-time record at the Valley of Charlton 10 wins, Villa 8 and with 7 draws is a fixture that is usually full of goals. It will be a tight one.

So after admiring Barcelona on Wednesday and watching the way things should be done Curbs is obviously going to take in account Villa's good away form and attempt to play it tight. Expect a dire first half as usual with 0-0 as the preferred state.

Having worn them down during the first 45 with, oh dear, Kish and Hughes the key players, we will then crank up the pressure , throw caution to the winds and set about them in the second half. Well, that's the theory part.

Although reliable cynic athletic puts it down as a 1-1, I think we'll score a couple so it depends how the defence holds messrs Moore and Baros.

Prediction - Charlton 2 Villa 2 or a 2-1 home win. Having said that, I see that 2-1 is also Lawro's idea so scatch that one and 2-2 it is.