Ezri Konsa and Amadou Onana injury updates as Unai Emery provides Villa team news for Leeds clash

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Unai Emery has confirmed that Ezri Konsa, Matty Cash, Lamare Bogarde, and Andres Garcia are all fit for selection against Leeds United , while Amadou Onana will undergo a late fitness test. Konsa withdrew from the England squad last week due to calf tightness before the Three Lions' second match in November against Albania.

The defender had previously played the full 90 minutes in England's victory over Serbia the previous Thursday.

Onana, on the other hand, was rested for Belgium's final match of the month against Liechtenstein as a precautionary measure.

The midfielder had clocked up 71 minutes for his country against Kazakhstan on an artificial pitch in Astana and was subsequently replaced in the next match by Villa teammate Youri Tielemans.

Cash experienced some discomfort in training ahead of Poland's match against Malta on Monday night, so he was kept on the bench, with Jan Urban deciding to rest him.

However, the right-back has since trained at Bodymoor Heath ahead of the weekend. Garcia, who is yet to make an appearance for Villa this season and has only been included in one matchday squad, against Bologna back in September, has also trained.

Bogarde was left the Netherlands Under-21s last week as he wasn't fit enough to play, but Emery is hopeful that he will be able to call upon all but one of the players in his squad for this weekend.

"Today the players who were playing for their national teams joined us," Emery said. "Normally we are giving them two days off after their last match playing for their national teams.

"The only player who is ruled out of Sunday is Tyrone Mings. The other players will train, and everybody should be available."

When pressed on whether Konsa, Onana, Cash and Bogarde would be fit to feature, Emery responded: "They are training. Amadou is the only player who we will see tomorrow if he can play."

Tyrone Mings will be absent from the squad due to the hamstring problem he picked up against Liverpool earlier this month.

Leeds have gone five Premier League matches without victory against Villa, their last triumph coming in a 3-0 away success back in October 2020.

The Yorkshire outfit have also drawn a blank in their previous three home league encounters with Villa, though they've never endured four straight matches without finding the net at Elland Road against the same opposition.

Emery's men are chasing their sixth victory in seven league outings this weekend, having already dispatched Fulham , Burnley , Tottenham , Manchester City and Bournemouth in recent weeks.

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