The Champions League turning point?

Aston Villa has a ground for compensation for the soccer race in the Champions League, and its mission has become more difficult after reports of a major injury strike to their most influential players.

The Athletic said on Thursday that Youi Tientans is to be absent from the last three matches of the season due to a muscle injury.

There is an opportunity that can appear international at the end of the season against Manchester United on May 25, but this is an unlikely possibility.

SIT Villa Sit is seventh in the Premier League with three games remaining, three points behind Newcastle United in fourth place and Chelsea fifth place, with the first five teams to qualify for the Champions League this season.

UNai Emery men are facing a difficult trip to Bournemouth on Saturday, and the loss of Telemans can be a capacity of the villa given its influence on their season.

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Tiegeans worked as a major creative power in Villa in 2024-25. Although its score of seven decisive passes in the Premier League this season is less than the Morgan Rogers group, any player in the Emery team has done more to make the play.

In fact, Tielemans 59 main passes (pass that led to a shot), tied seventh in the league.

No midfielder in the first place in the last third of Tielemans’ 228, while the former Monaco and LeesESter City Man occupies the fifth place in the department with 234 progressive passes (its passes that move the ball towards the opponent’s goal line at least 10 yards of its farthest in the last six corridors, or any complete passes to the referee area, except for the passage of 40 % of the charges.

Telemans was also distinguished by winning the ball. He achieved 57 games that resulted in his team’s restoration, and only six players were able to manage more.

Excessive work burden

However, because it is important to the place that has proven Telemans, his injury may be the result of excessive dependence on his services.

Tiegeans and Olie Watkins are the only players who have appeared in all 35 Premier League matches this season. With Villa arrived in the semi-finals of the FA Cup and the quarter-finals, Telemans won 52 games in 2024-25.

It is clear that this level of play time has affected this, and with the presence of Tielemans now on the margin, Villa can feel pain in losing a second consecutive season at the highest table in Europe.