Aston Villa issue concerning injury update after midfielder limped out of Premier League game

Aston Villa midfielder Boubacar Kamara is set to be sidelined for up to three weeks after he was injured against Brentford.

Villa have made a dreadful start to the Premier League season and the hamstring injury sustained by Kamara early in Saturday’s defeat at the Gtech Community Stadium is another unwelcome blow.

The 25-year-old has undergone scans and has avoided long-term damage but will sit out Villa’s matches for two to three weeks and France’s upcoming international matches.

Kamara will miss Sunday’s home game against Crystal Palace as well as a pair of away fixtures on the other side of the international break against Everton and newly promoted Sunderland.

The midfielder has been an integral part of manager Unai Emery’s set-up since arriving at Villa Park in 2022 but has picked up another injury just one game short of his 100th Villa appearance.

There haven’t been many positives for Emery and Villa in the early part of this season. Kamara was key as Villa gradually started to get a foot on the ball against Brentford and was one of the handful of players who emerged from the Newcastle game with some credit.

Kamara’s injury record

Kamara, who has a handful of caps for France, has just signed a new contract with Villa that runs to the summer of 2030. It was one of the best pieces of business Villa have done during the transfer window.

In the first two games of the season he’s been deployed alongside Amadou Onana in Emery’s double pivot with Youri Tielemans playing in a more advanced role, a system that really hasn’t worked in either game. Tielemans will now drop back into midfield as a matter of necessity.

Kamara has suffered a number of injuries in his time at Villa Park, including a hamstring injury in February that took him out of three games last season including Crystal Palace.

He missed 35 games with a serious knee injury between February and October 2024. An earlier knee injury and other knocks took him out of contention in his first couple of years as a Villa player.

His importance to Villa is beyond doubt and overcoming another absence will be difficult in the coming weeks but it might at least chase off the notion of pairing Kamara with Onana while Tielemans plays off the striker. It’s an approach that hasn’t worked at all in Villa’s first two games and Emery should leave it behind when Kamara returns in September.

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