Ollie Watkins injury update: Unai Emery speaks out after Aston Villa win in Champions League

Chris DaviePublished Sep 17, 2024, 9:10pm|Updated Sep 17, 2024, 9:11pm

Unai Emery has played down the severity of Ollie Watkins’ ankle wounded aft Aston Villa’s 3-0 triumph against BSC Young Boys successful the Champions League connected Tuesday evening.

Villa got disconnected to the cleanable commencement successful the caller Champions League format arsenic goals from Youri Tielemans, Jacob Ramsey and Amadou Onana sealed a deserved triumph for Emery’s broadside successful Bern.

Watkins, meanwhile, recovered the nett with a thumping decorativeness successful the archetypal fractional but the extremity was ruled retired aft the shot struck his limb moments earlier his strike.

The 28-year-old besides took a sound successful the archetypal fractional and was past replaced by Jhon Duran, who besides had a extremity ruled hour, connected the hr mark.

Watkins was seen sitting connected the seat with crystal strapped to his close ankle, sparking concerns implicit his fittingness up of Villa’s Premier League clash against Wolves connected Saturday.

When asked astir Watkins’ wounded aft Villa’s win, Emery said: ‘Yes, he’s okay.

‘Now we person arsenic good Jhon Duran successful bully form. They tin play together.

‘But thing arsenic well, contiguous helium plays 60 minutes, different 30 minutes for Duran. Of course, we request both, together, individually, adding his capableness connected the transportation successful the clip we need.’

Emery besides believes playing successful the Champions League volition play a large relation successful helping his squad develop.

‘The astir important happening is the process we are doing here,’ Emery said.

‘Some players don’t person experiences astatine the level of the Champions League and others, yes.

‘We person to physique and make a caller way. The mode we created past twelvemonth successful the Conference League was fantastic, adjacent if we did not get to the final.

‘We are utilizing the experiences we are adding to bash our champion playing successful the Champions League, starting with the respect we person for each squad and with playing distant ever being precise difficult.

‘Of course, Our supporters are pursuing america present and helping us. We person to beryllium beardown and beryllium unneurotic adjacent erstwhile we are playing distant from Villa Park.’

Villa’s adjacent crippled successful the Champions League is astatine location to Bayern Munich connected October 2.

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