Aston Villa defender Curtis Davies is confident they won't take Hull City lightly tonight.

"Our draw with Arsenal was a massive boost for us and if we can follow it up with a good result at Hull we'll maintain our momentum," he said. "Hull can bite back, they have done very well so I wouldn't like to say that it's going to be easy.

"We just need to carry on doing what we're doing."

Villa netted 35 points from their first half of the season, putting them well clear of the rest of the Premier League outside the top six, but Davies says there can be no resting on laurels.

"We deserve to be where we are," he said. "But its no good playing for the first half of the season and then slowing down.

"It's all well and good having a good half season but the bigger teams will always say: 'judge us in May'. We want to be one of those teams and, come May, hopefully we will be in that top four."