{"id":13924,"date":"2022-04-02T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/02\/aston-villa-dealt-early-defensive-injury-blow-during-wolves-clash\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:00:46","slug":"aston-villa-dealt-early-defensive-injury-blow-during-wolves-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/02\/aston-villa-dealt-early-defensive-injury-blow-during-wolves-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa dealt early defensive injury blow during Wolves clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa have, on Saturday, been dealt an altogether untimely injury blow, during the club\u2019s meeting with Wolverhampton Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Gerrard\u2019s troops are of course currently locked in Premier League action at Molineux, in their first outing on the back of the international break.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the opening quarter of an hour in the Midlands, however, the afternoon\u2019s visitors saw their hopes of a three-point haul dented.<\/p>\n<p>This came as Lucas Digne, for the 2nd game running, was forced into a premature departure, after pulling up with what appeared to be a muscular problem.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran wide-man Ashley Young, in turn, was introduced in his place:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Steven Gerrard is forced into an early change.<\/p>\n<p>? 1-0 ? [13\u2032] <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WOLAVL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WOLAVL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1mK5TDfhmR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1mK5TDfhmR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1510259037169926147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Wolves on top<\/h2>\n<p>In truth, Digne\u2019s latest fitness problem marks the least of Aston Villa\u2019s concerns to this point in proceedings on Saturday afternoon, though.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with the Claret and Blue also trailing by two goals to nil at Molineux.<\/p>\n<p>The game\u2019s scoring was opened with just seven minutes on the clock, when surprise goalscorer Jonny made it two goals in two games courtesy of a fine finish into the top corner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIt\u2019s disastrous from Aston Villa\u201d ?<\/p>\n<p>First blood to Wolves in this West Midlands derby as Jonny fires it into the top corner \u2604\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c2Q5WG9tk2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/c2Q5WG9tk2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1510258884795056134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And the hosts doubled their lead ten minutes prior to the interval, when Marcal\u2019s whipped delivery from the left was nodded into his own net by none other than the man introduced in Digne\u2019s place, Ashley Young.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/live-streaming-match-previews\/wolverhampton-wanderers-vs-aston-villa-live-streaming-watch-premier-league-online\/\">Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Aston Villa live streaming: Watch Premier League online<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/live-streaming-match-previews\/burnley-vs-manchester-city-live-streaming-watch-premier-league-online\/\">Burnley vs Manchester City live streaming: Watch Premier League online<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Aston Villa have, on Saturday, been dealt an altogether untimely injury blow, during the club\u2019s meeting with Wolverhampton Wanderers. Steven Gerrard\u2019s troops are of course currently locked in Premier League action at Molineux, in their first outing on the back of the international break. Inside the opening quarter of an hour in the Midlands, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-13924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}