LONDON (SE) - Aston Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan demands his relegation-threatened side won't shirk the fight once they perform Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday. Accommodation (7-9-15) slipped to third from bottom after dropping 2-1 at home to Liverpool last weekend and with just eight matches remaining in the summer season, United States Of America global Guzan knows a good outcome at Stoke is important to greatly help the Villans retain their top-flight status. Villa have won just three of the 11 Premier League played in 2013. "There is really a aggressive nature we've in the dressing area where we fight for one another, and fight for the shirt." Guzan told Aston Villa team site. "Every game is actual and the more that people will get into team's faces and make it hard for them to perform, the better it is for us. "It is high pace, high energy. We should allow it to be difficult for them. Stoke certainly are a big group, we'll have to get there, be confident and make sure we win those battles. It's a man's game and you have to be a guy about it, win balls in the air, whatever it may be. We've to be ready to participate. That's what the Premier League is all about." Stoke (7-13-11) have had a miserable work recently and acquired only five points out of a possible 33 since the change of the year - which is a category low. They've won just once within their last five league excursions and maintained only one clear sheet in 13 games. The Potters come in 14th invest the table on 34 points - just four ahead of Villa - and in danger of being dragged into a dogfight during the final months of the year. Tony Pulis has said he'll perhaps not leave as Stoke manager and remains in confident mood before Saturday's important match. "It is a large check, not merely for the participants nevertheless the followers and every one else," Pulis told the Stoke team site. "We stick together and show what we're - and that is a club that when called upon stands together." Stoke's only injury question is Matthew Etherington and Pulis is positive the midfielder will be fit to manage Villa. "We wish to have Matty in the team when he offers us balance on that left-hand side," included Pulis. "On his time, specially at our place with the fans behind him, he's a real number. "The issue is his right back and his groin and it's very, very important since we have got seven games left that we do not run him. But whoever is fit will actually get out there and give it a go." Aston Villa chef Paul Lambert has proved Brett Holman and Darren Bent will both take the group for Saturday's match. The 2-1 defeat was missed by midfielder Holman against Liverpool with a injury, while striker Bent hasn't included since February 10 because of virus and leg issue. These two factors played out a draw at Villa Park in December in this season's opposite fixture. Stoke defender Ryan Shotton was sent off late in stoppage time after being shown another yellow card. Accommodation will undoubtedly be trying to find their first win at the Britannia Stadium, which opened in August 1997. If they beat the Potters 3-1 at the Victoria Ground, their former home soil, the final time Villa won at Stoke was back in August 1984.
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