Aston Villa have received a major injury boost following Boubacar Kamara’s injury setback
Aston Villa’s Amadou Onana(Image: SmartFrame/Pro Sports Images)
Unai Emery has received a timely injury boost as Amadou Onana travelled with his Aston Villa teammates to Istanbul.
Villa will take on Fenerbahce in the Europa League on Thursday night, their penultimate match of the league phase.
Onana, who has been injured since Villa’s 4-1 defeat at Arsenal, has missed the last four matches, only one of which Emery’s side have won.
He has made a total of 18 appearances across all competitions so far this season and has scored two goals, against Bournemouth and Brighton.
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The Belgian’s return from injury comes just days after Boubacar Kamara was ruled out for months with a serious knee injury.
It is expected that Kamara will miss the rest of Villa’s season, while Ross Barkley is also currently sidelined through injury.
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Tyrone Mings has re-taken the midfielder’s place in the squad, having previously dropped out for him earlier in this league phase campaign.
Emi Martinez, however, shall miss Villa’s match on Thursday after Emery confirmed that he hadn’t travelled with the squad and will not feature.
Villa face Fenerbahce in search of their sixth league phase victory this season, having beaten Bologna, Feyenoord, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Young Boys and Basel, but lost to Go Ahead Eagles.