Fixtures
- Ipswich Town Vs. Aston Villa – Sun, Sep 29th 2024, 14:00
Unai Emery has offered a positive update on the projected returns of Aston Villa duo Tyrone Mings and Boubacar Kamara.
Centre-back Mings and midfielder Kamara have both returned to training with their team-mates having recovered from long-term knee injuries.
And manager Emery has revealed they are set to feature for Villa’s Under-21s next week, before hopefully being available for first-team selection following the October international period.
“They are training very well,” Emery told Friday’s pre-match media conference.
“They started to be with us 100% completely during training sessions last week.
“And the plan with them is to try and start playing with our Under-21s next week, 45 minutes.
“And, more or less, after the break they will be available, should everything go well, to be with us.”
Sunday’s clash against Ipswich Town comes too soon for Mings and Kamara as Villa prepare for their first trip to Portman Road since 2018.
It will be the club’s first Premier League encounter against the Tractor Boys since 2002.
But the Villans will travel to Suffolk without captain John McGinn as he recovers from the hamstring injury which forced him off in last weekend’s 3-1 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers.
“When it’s an injury, it’s not good for the player or us,” added Emery.
“But, analysing his performances before his injury, he needed to improve and needed to increase his performance.
“And we were working with him in his focus to increase it.
“Now being injured, of course, stay calm, work to recover as soon as possible and hopefully we can work on the things he was not doing like he was in the last two years.
“Trying to fit better and getting his performances better for him and the team when he comes back.”
