Unai Emery has given an update on Ollie Watkins after the Aston Villa striker pulled out of the England squad through injury.
Following the international break, Villa travel to Tottenham on Sunday, trying to proceed their good run of form after a difficult begin to the season.
Nonetheless, they may very well be forced to accomplish that without star striker Watkins after he suffered a painful injury through the Three Lions’ friendly win against Wales last week.
The 29-year-old scored the second goal of the 3-0 win at Wembley but needed to be subbed off at half-time following a nasty collision with the post as he was attempting to tap-in from close range.
He later withdrew from the squad before England’s 5-0 win in Latvia, which booked their place at next summer’s World Cup, along with his participation within the Spurs clash doubtful.
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Nonetheless, speaking in his pre-match press conference on Friday, Emery is confident that his No.9 might be slot in time: ‘Tomorrow we are going to train again, and normally he might be ready for Sunday.’
The Villa boss also had positive updates on the fitness of several other players, including Emi Buendia and Jadon Sancho: ‘Each of them are training normally the entire week, they usually might be available for Sunday in the event that they are training well tomorrow.

‘Tyrone Mings is recuperating, progressively. He’s training this week individually so as to add to us. Tomorrow we are going to see how he’s.
‘The concept tomorrow is for him to coach with the team and, after the training session, to make a decision if he’ll travel with us or to not London.’
Watkins has endured a poor begin to the season, scoring only once in 10 games across all competitions, with Villa in an underwhelming thirteenth within the Premier League table.

They’re unbeaten in 4 games nonetheless, winning their last two, but Emery is wary of the threat Tottenham possess, adding: ‘Premier League, every match we face is being very difficult, and naturally Tottenham is considered one of the contender teams to be in the highest seven.
‘This 12 months they’re really playing incredible, getting good results, they are actually in the highest with 14 points, and playing at home, they’re feeling strong.
‘For us, it’s really an enormous challenge, how we are able to face them, showing our capability and the way we’re playing against them as a team, individually how we’re responding, that is my challenge.
‘In fact, they added some players of their squad, very essential players. I believe now, the coach is after all doing superb work like he did when he was in Brentford, and he deserved to get something more.’
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