Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish is remaining positive regarding three players who are touch and go for this weekend's FA Cup clash with Arsenal.
The West Midlands club are away to the Gunners in the fourth round on Sunday and the likes of Gabriel Agbonlahor, Emile Heskey and Stephen Ireland could play despite recent problems.
"Emile has responded well to treatment on his Achilles and he will train later in the week, so he has a chance of making it.
"We're very positive on Stephen and hopefully he will be back training with the group later in the week, too.""Gabby is okay and trained yesterday after a bout of illness which forced him to come off against Wolves (on the weekend)," he said.
