UEFA Super Cup: Three Aston Villa players to miss PSG clash

Aston Villa volition beryllium without cardinal trio Ezri Konsa, Ollie Watkins and Emiliano Martinez for the UEFA Super Cup crippled with Paris-Saint Germain.

Villa boss, Unai Emery, wants to springiness them much clip disconnected for their holiday.

All 3 players person been linked with a determination distant from the nine this summer, with Konsa a imaginable people for Arsenal and Liverpool, Martinez pursued by Juventus and suggestions Watkins could determination to Turkey.

But Emery insists the 3 Villa players person been fixed 4 weeks off, alternatively than three, owed to their information successful the 2026 World Cup.

“They are not present due to the fact that they finished the play connected July 19 and I gave them 4 weeks to remainder and it is wholly necessary,” Emery said astatine his pre-match property league connected Tuesday.

“Of course, if they were here, possibly we volition person galore much chances, but astatine the aforesaid time, I deliberation PSG volition beryllium successful aforesaid concern arsenic us. We volition hole the crippled with players, adjacent immoderate young players, similar we started with 4 weeks ago. Of people they are favourites.”

UEFA Super Cup: Three Aston Villa players to miss PSG clash