Midfielder Phillip Billing is also a doubt, which may mean that former Aston Villa man Jonathan Hogg could come in.
Villa will be without midfielders Birkir Bjarnason and Jack Grealish, who both picked up knee injuries in Saturday's win at Rotherham.
Boss Steve Bruce could use full-back Jordan Amavi in a more advanced role.
Villa are now looking a lot safer having climbed to 13th after three straight wins - all of them clean sheets.

A 56-year-old local man died when the blue Ford Ka he was travelling in collided with a green Ford Explorer.
Police said the crash happened just after midnight on 28 November on Ash Road at the North Ash Road junction.
Ross Bryant, 27, of James Road in Dartford, has been charged with causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving while uninsured and unlicensed.
He is also charged with failing to stop at the scene of a collision and failing to report a collision to police.
He will appear before Dartford Magistrates Court on 28 April.
Bryant was arrested on 29 November last year along with two teenage boys who have since been released without charge.
Huddersfield Town are hopeful that goalkeeper Danny Ward will be fit after going off with a knock in the weekend home defeat by Newcastle.
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A man has been charged in connection with a fatal crash in New Ash Green last November.