LONDON (SE) - Aston Villa variety Manchester City at Villa Park on Monday morning in a game title that influences both ends of the table. John Lambert's Aston Villa (5-9-13) get into the game in the bottom three, but the manager is assured the most established top-flight team in the relegation scrap will have a way to prevent the decline. "We have big games, substantial games still to come," said Lambert. "There would have been a lot of twists and turns within the next couple of months. "People ask if it is now three teams from four but there are a few teams there who will be overlooking their shoulder. I actually do not know what clubs it might be nevertheless you always locate a shock somewhere. But we're truly playing well enough (to remain up). We have belief in ourselves that we will always be ok. How they are playing, actually I can not request anymore." Visitors Man City (16-8-3) are 12 points behind neighbours Manchester United at the top of the Premier League desk, and have Tottenham only five points behind in third, but boss Roberto Mancini thinks it's too early to write-off his team's chances in the subject race. "In basketball, it's finished when it's finished - in the last minute of the last game," said Mancini. "If United are 12 points ahead and we appear with four games to go, it is finished, but our work is to continue to work. "For us, it's perhaps not very important to look at the table, only to play well and to improve because we are able to improve. Only this and maybe look at the table in a single month." Aston Villa have doubts over Shay Given (groin), Darren Bent (ankle), Ron Vlaar (leg), Chris Herd (ankle) and Richard Dunne (groin), but Marc Albrighton (ankle), Gary Gardner (leg) remain out, and Stilyan Petrov's battle against leukaemia remains. Guy City have doubts within the fitness of Maicon (knee), Gareth Barry (knock), Vincent Kompany (shin) and Micah Richards (knee). Villa won 2-1 against West Ham United within their last home game - ending a four-match losing streak by themselves patch. Nevertheless, Lambert's area have only managed 11 targets in the home all season - only QPR have fewer with eight - and have managed just one win within their last 10 league matches over all. Christian Benteke has scored five objectives in his last five games for Aston Villa, but Monday's competitors also have a vital striker - City have won 23 of the 24 games by which Sergio Aguero has scored. Town won 1-0 in this fitting last period, ending a work of four league games with no victory at Villa Park. Mancini's side have already dropped 25 things this season - as many as they dropped in winning the Premier League last season - and dropped their last away game in the group, against Southampton. A defeat on Monday will be City's first back-to-back failures since April 2011. Man City destroyed Villa 5-0 when these teams achieved at the Etihad Stadium in November. Aguero and Carlos Tevez and both won second-half braces after David Silva had opened the score just two minutes before halftime.
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