Left-backs Antonio Luna and Joe Bennett remain out, but Fabian Delph should return after illness.
Denmark striker Andreas Cornelius has returned to training with Cardiff after a long-standing ankle injury but will not be risked.
Manager Malky Mackay has no fresh injury concerns.
MATCH PREVIEW
Back in 1998, Paul Lambert and Malky Mackay were team-mates at Celtic for a few months, though they only actually started one league game together, the 5-0 Parkhead drubbing of Dunfermline on the opening day of the 1998-99 season.
It's a game only memorable to most for an outstanding Craig Burley hat-trick, probably memorable to Mackay because he scored the fifth goal of the game, and memorable to absolutely no-one else except me because it was my first ever commentary for Radio 5 Live having joined from Capital Radio.
The pair will no doubt put aside a few minutes for a private chat over old times and new challenges, whatever the result may be. I'm sure that a discussion of the relative merits of their clubs' owners would be an interesting one; Randy Lerner and Vincent Tan sound like very different people.
Mackay can do no wrong in the eyes of the Cardiff fans, and rightly so. He has handled the entirely unnecessary recent disruption at the club with a certain style, but I doubt that he'll be willing to countenance much more interfering from Mr Tan, who seems to have confused managing the club with managing the team.
Randy Lerner continues to be about the lowest profile owner in the game through what has been a difficult few years for the club.
It's been a tough few weeks as well; four games without scoring have followed the unexpected win over Manchester City and points continue to come in only a trickle from home games. In 2013, Villa have taken just 13 points from 14 games at home and 21 points from 14 games away.
You can look at this two ways, either to shake your head at a feeble home tally or to be impressed by a healthy away haul; either way, Lambert is sick of discussing it.
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