Bizot starts with Watkins on the bench for Villapublished at 19:04 BST
Aston Villa v Bologna (20:00 BST)
Nick Mashiter
BBC Sport football news reporter at Villa Park
Unai Emery makes four changes for Aston Villa’s Europa League opener against Bologna.
Marco Bizot, Ian Maatsen, Pau Torres and Donyell Malen come in from the 1-1 draw at Sunderland, while there is no Emi Martinez on the bench.
Villa are looking for their first victory of the season after five winless Premier League games and going out of the Carabao Cup to Brentford.
Aston Villa XI: Bizot, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Maatsen, Kamara, McGinn, Guessand, Rogers, Buendia, Malen.
Subs: Proctor, Oakley, Linelof, Mings, Elliott, Watkins, Digne, Garcia, Sancho, Bogarde, Burrowes
Seria A side Bologna also make changes from their 2-1 win over Genoa.
Torbjorn Heggem, Riccardo Orsolini, Juan Miranda, Lorenzo De Silvestri and Benjamin Dominguez drop out.
Jhon Lucumi, Charalampos Lykogiannis, Nadir Zortea, Jens Odgaard and former Aberdeen midfielder Lewis Ferguson, who captains the visitors, come in.
Bolonga XI: Skorupski, Zortea, Vitik, Lucumi, Lykogiannis, Ferguson, Freuler, Odgaard, Castro, Bernardeschi, Cambiaghi
Subs: Pessina, Ravaglia, Holm, Moro, Rowe, Orsolini, Heggem, Dallinga, Miranda, Fabbian
