I would be happy for them to put their trust in Tim if we need cover; I don't think re-positioning players who should already be in the team serves us well.
Cheers, Paul, I feel slightly less sick after reading that!
Just to wind back a little, it's not being 'reported on social media' it's 1 account with a pretty iffy record on injuries that captured a still frame of the match and said it looked like an ACL injury. Pretty much everything stems from that 1 report.For what it's worth the image makes it look a lot worse than it does in video, when you see it in real time it looks like a small degree of lateral hyperflexion (or the knee bending to the side slightly more than you'd normally expect). At worst I'd guess a grade 2 MCL which would be 4-6weeks, more likely nothing serious or a grade 1 which would be 3weeks-ish.
Even if he’s only out for up to 6 weeks it’s still a big blow to our top 4 hopes
We all know McGinn and Luiz in the middle doesn't really work so if the worst happens I would much rather Tim be given a go. I know history tells us Emery won't do this but I'd like it given a good go.
I genuinely wonder how anyone would know what the injury is. Is it based on an image or has there been a leak from the club? I don’t see how you can diagnose an injury from an imagealthough he did put his hand up for attention straight away after doing it.It’s Villa though so I expect the worst but pray it’s good news.