The international break is upon us but there is no shortage of involvement for Villa players.

Stillyan Petrov and Ashley Young could line up on opposite sides at Wembley on Friday night.

England have won 19 of their last 23 competitive fixtures at home and while they are missing some key players Steven Gerrard is fit, having starred against Hungary.

Wayne Rooney is back in the goals and being a streak player is good value at 4.0 to net first at Wembley and Bulgaria are a side very much in transition.

They have not kept a clean sheet in their last nine games and are missing Dimitar Berbatov through international retirement.

He scored 48 goals in 77 games and will be a big loss.

England are 1.30 to win the game but can be backed at 2.07 to win by two or more.

They achieved that in 14 of those 19 home wins so on past form, never mind the desire to start afresh after South Africa, that represents good value.

Richard Dunne will hopefully lead out the Republic of Ireland against Armenia.

In the last two qualifying campaigns, Ireland have drawn 50 per cent of their games.

They are tough to break down but without Damien Duff may struggle to create and the odds against a draw at 3.45 make a lot more appeal than the away win odds at 1.73.

With two wins and currently lying in fourth place it has been a solid start to the new season.

188BET is offering odds on how many points will be gained from the three September games against Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers and Wolves and seven points or more is as short as a 2.50 chance.

Next week, we will be previewing our first Monday night action of the season, away to Stoke, for which Villa can currently be backed at odds of 2.80.