Fabiański is playing his 24th FA Cup game on his return to the team after recovering from the head injury he sustained at Southampton on Boxing Day. The 39-year-old won the trophy with Arsenal in his last appearance for the Gunners in May 2014.

Tomas Soucek He is captaining the team again in the absence of Jarrod Bowen, who continues to work towards fitness following a broken foot sustained against Liverpool on December 29.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka returns at right-back after playing on the left last time out at the Etihad Stadium, while Scarles sits on the left in the back four.

Mavropanos will be supported in the center by Maximilian Kilman, who reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with Wolverhampton Wanderers last season.

In front of them, Edson Álvarez will form the midfield alongside captain Souček and Brazilian Lucas Paquetá.

The front three will be the same trio that started at Manchester City, with goalscorer Niclas Füllkrug flanked by Mohammed Kudus on the right wing and Crysencio Summerville outside on the left wing.

The substitutes’ bench consists of goalkeeper Wes Foderingham, defenders Vladimír Coufal, Aaron Cresswell and Scarles’ FA Youth Cup colleague Kaelan Casey, midfielders Guido Rodríguez, Andy Irving, Carlos Soler and Luis Guilherme and striker Danny Ings.

Aston Villa: Olsen, Cash, Mings ©, Konsa, Maatsen, Tielemans, Barkley, Rogers, Bailey, Kamara, Watkins
Substitutes: Gauci (TW), Digne, Bogarde, Ramsey, Nedeljkovic, Onana, Jimoh, Burrowes, Buendía

West Ham United: Fabiański, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Scarles, Álvarez, Souček ©, Paquetá, Kudus, Summerville, Füllkrug
Substitutes: Foderingham (TW), Coufal, Cresswell, Casey, Rodríguez, Irving, Soler, Luis Guilherme, Ings

Referee: Tim Robinson