Southampton boss Ronald Koeman says Aston Villa star Jack Grealish deserves his punishment and feels it is his responsibility to learn from his actions, the Mirror report.
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Aston Villa staved off a Southampton fightback as the Premier League’s bottom side earned a valuable 1-1 draw at St Mary’s on Saturday.
“Jack has continued to train with the under-21 squad and won’t be included in the squad for Southampton”, Garde told reporters at his pre-match news conference on Thursday.
“Sometimes you have a big striker which is a big threat for opponents, sometimes you can split that between two or three players”. If you speak to every European player they would like to play Boxing Day, this time to play is fantastic.
And the Frenchman has urged his players to remain focused throughout the festive season. He added: “We have to defend better than we did as a team and that starts in front”.
“I think it’s good to have a game so soon”. Only York City (14 games) are now enduring a longer current winless run than Aston Villa (13 games) in England’s top-four tiers.
At this stage of The Rams’ record breaking season of uselessness they were already on six points, one more than Villa. He also missed the 3-2 defeat by Watford last Saturday. “It’s my job to make them stronger and more committed and more involved”, he said.
Mat Kendrick will be the man for us down there, providing you with coverage, build up, analysis and reaction. The 20-year-old is still training with the under-21s after being pictured in a Manchester nightclub just hours after Villa’s 4-0 drubbing at Everton.
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Either Joleon Lescott and Jores Okore are standing by to replace the banned Ciaran Clark while skipper Micah Richards is a doubt with a knee injury.
