Timbo frets over lengthening injury list

Westwood injured

Rosie's bloke injured

Tim Sherwood has bemoaned Villa's injury crisis at his pre-
match presser.

We face QPR on Tuesday fully aware than a QPR win would see the Londoners leapfrog us and send us plummeting into the Premier League's relegation zone.


Sherwood will have to cope without a string of key players.

Alan Hutton, Ashley Westwood and Scott Sinclair are defintely on the missing list, while Tom Cleverley, Aly Cissokho and Kieran Richardson are big doubts. Philippe Senderos is unlikely to feature, while Libor Kozak continues to recover from his broken leg.

Hutton out

Sherwood fears he will have to throw in some players who may not be ready.

He said: "I've never seen an injury crisis like it. I never thought I'd be one of those managers who moans about injuries but I have to.

"You get one back and lose another two. They're not trivial injuries, they're always two, three, four weeks. It's okay in September but not now. That's pretty much writing off the season.

Senderos unlikely

"It's something you have to get on with and hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel.

"It's a case of seeing who can come in. A few are back from injury, medically, but physically, it's a need-must situation. Some of them will be risked."