Aston Villa vs Fulham early injury news as 1 ruled out and 4 doubts

Fulham return to action on Sunday when they face Aston Villa away from home. It’s been a positive start for the Cottagers, who are currently in eighth place having lost just once in their first five games.

Villa won’t be so pleased with their start, down in 18th at this early stage and yet to win a Premier League game, drawing three times and losing twice. They will be a hungry side to face this weekend given that poor Premier League start.

Amadou Onana - Out

Onana is battling a hamstring issue and he is expected to remain out here.

Youri Tielemans - Doubt

Emery said just under two weeks ago: “Youri is going to be out [for] some matches...” Tielemans may have an outside chance here, but he more than likely misses out.

Andres Garcia - Doubt

Garcia is working his way back from injury and is very unlikely to play a part here.

Ross Barkley - Doubt

Barkley is expected to be back soon. Emery said just under two weeks ago: “We have not available as well, Ross Barkley. He has a personal issue, and I think he will come back, or he will be available soon, but not yet.” He could well return here.

Kevin Macedo - Doubt

Macedo picked up an injury last time out. Silva said after the game: “Let's hope it's nothing serious in his shoulder. He felt something there - let's see in the next few hours how he's going to feel.” He will be a doubt at the very least here.

Silva on Cambridge win

Fulham hard to work hard to pick up a narrow win over Cambridge United in the Carabao Cup during the weeks. Speaking after the victory, Cottagers boss Silva said: “Everything was slow first half, the way we play, the way we circulate the ball, the tempo in our possession.

“Even if we have 80 per cent of possession, like we had, if you are not aggressive enough on the ball and with your moves, with your dynamic, it doesn't matter. You can have 90 or 95 per cent, you are not going to create anything. We had just one good chance first half. And it was our fault, of course. They tried to block, they sat back.

“We expected the game is going to be in our offensive half, like was our obligation, but everything was slow, and one of the things that I said to our players at half-time was that we clearly have to increase the tempo in our possession, to be much more aggressive, more dynamic as well. Clearly wasn't our most inspirational night for some of them, our most creative players, because in some moments in these type of games, you need the most creative players to create something.

“But in terms of tempo, the intensity, the aggressiveness on the ball, you have to do much quicker, and we did second half, and that was the reason why we scored and created more chances. But clearly it wasn't a good performance for us at all, not with the inspiration that we need to play football in some moments, too. We knew what was our obligation. Sometimes it's not easy to say and to use this word, obligation, but of course we were clearly the favourites to be in the next round. We had to make it happen, and we did it, we are going to play the next round.”

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