Aston Villa star to miss Nottingham Forest semi-final second leg

Aston Villa star to miss Nottingham Forest semi-final second leg

Amadou Onana has been ruled out of Aston Villa’s Europa League semi-final second leg against Nottingham Forest.

The midfielder suffered a calf injury in the 1-0 defeat to Forest in the first leg last week and missed the defeat to Spurs on Sunday.

But John McGinn is expected to be involved as Villa look to overturn their one-goal deficit and progress to the final.

The Scotland international also missed the defeat to Tottenham because of a hamstring issue but has trained ahead of the game on Thursday.

“He trained normally and if he is not changing something, he is going to be available for tomorrow,” Emery said.

Emery also stressed that whatever the result on Thursday, it will not impact the club’s future goals.

“I think we have players adding a lot of experiences,” he said. “We are usually getting highest level with the club, with the players. We are improving, myself as well, improving here.

“And we will have, after tomorrow, our way to set more challenges for the present or future.

“I don’t think tomorrow is the last opportunity for us or for anyone. And the players, of course, they are enjoying the process we are doing, and they are aware about how difficult is football, but how the greatest moment we are having here in Aston Villa the last three years, and we can smile and we can be proud of everything.