Grealish has since been training with the Under-21 side and would continue to do so, Garde said at a Thursday press conference.
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The Villa midfielder has highly rated and recently switched allegiances to represent England at national level.
Garde’s first defeat as manager was a heavy 4-0 loss to Everton last weekend in a game where Villa were three goals behind at half-time.
If things don’t work out for Remi Garde at Aston Villa, perhaps the club’s fans will call for former captain Olof Mellberg to take over.
Since that respectable 0-0 draw with Manchester City, old Villa have returned – and they’ve been worse than ever!
That said, Watford have lost three of their last five in the EPL and Villa havewon six and lost none of the last eight meetings in all competitions with Watford at Villa Park.
The Villains will have to make due without Jack Grealish who is removed from the squad due to off-field issues, while Jordan Amavi misses out through a knee ligament injury that rules him out for the rest of the season.
Watford made the points safe in the last few minutes as boyhood Birmingham City fan Troy Deeney rose highest to head in for 3-1, leaving Jordan Ayew’s marvellous strike scant consolation for Villa, who remain winless under Remi Garde.
“I understand that people outside will bet on us being in this position at the end of the season, but I really think we have the possibility to close the gap”.
When the game restarted, Watford caught Villa cold and immediately went back in front. And, if we don’t get it right, we’re going to go down. They bossed it from start to finish.
“It would be a huge boost in confidence for us to win this weekend”. We were nervous on the ball.
“If you look at our season up to now, West Brom and Liverpool were the only two games in which we definitely deserved to lose”. We have seen very poor showings from our team durning this time and we can only hope for better this year.
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Micah Richards was talking exclusively to BBC Sport’s Pat Murphy.
