{"id":71737,"date":"2025-12-02T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=71737"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:51:56","slug":"ross-barkley-injury-aston-villa-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/ross-barkley-injury-aston-villa-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa Dealt Injury Blow As Unai Emery Confirms Long-Term Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Aston Villa will be without Ross Barkley for several months after manager Unai Emery confirmed the midfielder has suffered a long-term injury.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s a fresh injury blow for Villa as the Midlands side prepare for a difficult run of December fixtures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With games coming thick and fast, squad depth and rotation is crucial as rest and recovery is limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But one man they&#8217;ll now have to live without over the festive period is Ross Barkley.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Unai Emery Confirms Ross Barkley Injury<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thirty-one-year-old midfielder Barkley was forced off in the closing stages of Villa&#8217;s 1-0 win against Wolves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had only replaced Youri Tielemans 13 minutes prior during Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But post-game assessments confirmed the 33-capped England international suffered sprained knee ligaments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, he will be out for longer than initially thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ASTON VILLA | Ross Barkley joins the injury list with a knee problem. He could be out for 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone Mings remains sidelined. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FPL<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AVFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sB428vQDEo\">pic.twitter.com\/sB428vQDEo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fantasy Football Scout (@FFScout) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FFScout\/status\/1995861916779221428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Villa boss Unai Emery confirmed the extent of Barkley&#8217;s injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I don\u2019t know how long exactly Barkley is out for, but maybe eight, 10 or 12 weeks,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is a pity because we were getting a good performance from him. He was so close to the starting XI.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barkley has so far made eight appearances for Villa in all competitions, scoring one goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is despite him missing the first 10 games of the season due to a personal issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ross Barkely&#8217;s injury may force Emery to reintegrate a forgotten man, with<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/harvey-elliott-aston-villa-transfer-liverpool-loan\/\"> <b>Harvey Elliott&#8217;s Aston Villa transfer<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> looking disastrous for the Liverpool loanee so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Tyrone Mings Injury Will Keep Him Out Of Brighton Clash<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elsewhere, defender Tyron Mings will also miss Wednesday night&#8217;s trip to Brighton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 32-year-old is continuing his rehabilitation from a hamstring issue, having not featured since Villa&#8217;s 2-0 loss at Liverpool on 1 November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mings only returned to the pitch at Anfield, having missed three games with a foot injury beforehand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emery confirmed both Mings and Barkley would miss out in midweek.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32967\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/mings-e1737990246404-560x409.webp\" alt=\"Aston Villa injury news\" width=\"560\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/mings-e1737990246404-560x409.webp 560w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/mings-e1737990246404-924x674.webp 924w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/mings-e1737990246404-350x255.webp 350w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/mings-e1737990246404-768x560.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/mings-e1737990246404-1536x1121.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/mings-e1737990246404.webp 2009w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyrone Mings will also miss Wednesday&#8217;s clash with Brighton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey are out tomorrow <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Wednesday)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tyrone Mings and Ross Barkley,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barkley had made his way back into the Villa squad against Burnley in October, but now faces another break from action thanks to this latest set-back.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Aston Villa&#8217;s December Fixtures Offer Little Respite<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a busy festive schedule, Villa will need all hands on deck as they navigate a tough run of games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First up is Wednesday&#8217;s trip to Brighton, before hosting league leaders Arsenal &#8211; 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Now at SportsCasting, James provides expert analysis and detailed research features, as well as covering breaking news stories.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/JChittickjourno"],"url":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/author\/jameschittick\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71767,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71737\/revisions\/71767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}