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Team news for Cherries clash

Aston Villa welcome the return of Ollie Watkins and Amadou Onana for Saturday’s Premier League trip to AFC Bournemouth.

Watkins missed last weekend’s defeat to Brentford due to injury while Onana remained an unused substitute at Villa Park.

But both are now fully fit and available to face the Cherries at Vitality Stadium.

January signing Alysson is still awaiting his first-team debut following his arrival at the club and, despite being back in training, is not yet ready to feature this weekend.

Captain John McGinn, Youri Tielemans and Boubacar Kamara remain long-term absentees and also miss out against Bournemouth, along with defender Andrés García.

Unai Emery provided a fitness update at Friday afternoon’s pre-match media conference.

Asked about the availability of Watkins, the Villa manager said: “Yes, normally yes.

“He rested last week because he had a small injury and he was not ready to play.

“But this week progressively he was joining us, training normally, and today he trained normally.”

Emery added: “Alysson is coming back progressively and, of course, we have three players in the middle, Kamara, Youri and McGinn out.

“We have a key structure inside with the players we have.

“Now, with Amadou Onana, he was not 100 per cent last week, Lamare Bogarde is always doing his task and helping us a lot but needs to continue getting better.

“Ross Barkley is coming back, it’s very, very important because he know us and he has the skill we need to play as a No.8 or No.10.”

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