Mellberg Set To Win Fitness Race

Olof Mellberg is expected to shake-off a sore Achilles ahead of Sunday・s Premiership trip to Blackburn Rovers.

And the Swedish international ace aims to help Villa can build on the deserved draw at Manchester United, insisting: ：It・s time to start collecting the points many of our performances have deserved.；

Ever-present so-far this season, Mellberg has arguably been Villa・s most consistent performer in a highly inconsistent campaign.

Now he aims to help Graham Taylor・s men break the away-day duck with three points at Ewood Park.

He commented: ：I think we・ve had a lot of disappointing results which have maybe not reflected our performances. That started with Tottenham away. We played very well and we deserved to win.

：We・ve had a lot of games like that. Sunderland away, Leeds at home and, even though we didn・t play as well as we should have against Southampton, we should have won. We were better than them even with ten men in the second-half.

：That・s obviously very disappointing, but we・ve got to realise as well that we・re playing better than the points we・ve got at the moment. Now we have to turn those performances into wins.；