{"id":645398,"date":"2025-12-21T02:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645398\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:38:14","slug":"ruben-amorim-delivers-team-news-for-aston-villa-21-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645398\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim delivers team news for Aston Villa | 21 December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VILLA&#8217;S TEAM NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unai Emery hopes Emiliano Martinez can return in goal, after missing the wins over Basel and West Ham United.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emiliano is progressing well,&#8221; said the Villa boss. &#8220;He is training individually and feeling better, much better. Tomorrow, we will decide if he is available, or not, for Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone Mings Pau Torres and Ross Barkley are unavailable and Liverpool loanee Harvey Elliott has been struck down by illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winger Jadon Sancho is ineligible due to the fact he is on loan from the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tyrone is still injured,&#8221; added Emery. &#8220;He&#8217;s getting better. Maybe, in a few weeks, he&#8217;s again joining us. Pau Torres, more or less, the same. One week or two weeks, something like that. Ross Barkley is still injured, longer than those two players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elliott is sick today. He hasn&#8217;t trained today, or yesterday as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Red Victor Lindelof has forced his way into the line-up and could face his old club on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VILLA&#8217;S TEAM NEWS Unai Emery hopes Emiliano Martinez can return in goal, after missing the wins over Basel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[196254,11493,1592,175,12243,18,12237,12,20,79,16,15,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-645398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2025_12_21_villa_park_birmingham","9":"tag-casemiro","10":"tag-first-team","11":"tag-harry-maguire","12":"tag-kobbie-mainoo","13":"tag-like","14":"tag-matthijs-de-ligt","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-search","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115755241314073277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}