Villa's Under 18s lose 2 goal lead and get crushed 12-2 by Chelsea

"Twelve BLOODY Two"

Villa's Under 18 team raced into a two goal lead early doors against their Chelsea counterparts at Cobham, then collapsed completely, conceding an unheard of TWELVE goals.

Goals from Harry McKirdy and Rushian Hepburn-Murphy had fired Villa in front in the first fifteen minutes. Then the wheels fell off.

Jeremie Boga and Miro Muheim hit hat-tricks and Chelsea's young lions ran riot


If you can stand it, there's a comprehensive report of the hammering on Chelsea's website


Chelsea Jared Thompson; Charlie Wakefield, Ruben Sammut, Jake-Clarke-Salter (c) (Ike Ugbo 78), Jay Dasilva; Kyle Scott, Isaac Christie-Davies, Mukhtar Ali (Miro Muheim 34); Tammy Abraham, Dominic Solanke, Jeremie Boga (Josh Grant 75)

Unused subs Nathan Baxter
Scorers Boga 16, 27, 73; Abraham 25, 81; Muheim 43, 54, 60; Solanke 45+3, 45+5; Scott 63; Ugbo 89
Booked Scott

Aston Villa Dylan Forth, Kodi Lyons-Foster, Corey Taylor, Jack Clarke (Alex Prosser h/t), Rory Hale, Easah Suliman, Harry Lewis (Jordan Cox), Harry McKirdy, Rushian Hepburn-Murphy, Khalid Abdo (c), Callum O’Hare (Jake Humphries)
Unused subs Charlie Bannister
Scorers McKirdy 11; Hepburn-Murphy 15
Booked Hale, Abdo

Senderos injury plunges Villa into a defensive crisis

Philippe Senderos has picked up a thigh injury while on duty for Switzerland and looks highly likely to miss the Everton game, plunging Villa into defensive uncertainty.

Senderos

Ron Vlaar has been missing for weeks with a calf injury and the news about Senderos will leave Paul Lambert praying that the likes of Alan Hutton, Ciaran Clark and Jores Okore will return from international duty unscathed.

Swiss team doctor Cuno Wetzel said: "Philippe has a thigh muscle strain. We'll have to see how it reacts.

"Normally a player is out of action for some time with a muscle injury of this type."

The news will come as a hammer blow to Villa fans already reeling at the loss of Roy Keane's beard.

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Enda

Northampton Town have snapped up 24 year old Aston Villa left back Enda Stevens on a month's emergency loan.

Back in Ireland, Stevens began his career with University College Dublin before moving to St Patrick's Athletic where he became first choice left-back.

He made six appearances in the 2009-2010 UEFA Europa League.

Stevens joined Shamrock Rovers in December 2009 winning his first title as Shamrock won the league title on the final day of the season.

In 2011-2012, Stevens was part of Rovers' first ever UEFA Europa League clash and made 15 appearances in European competition over a two year period.

He capped off a memorable year by winning the PFAI Young Player of the Year.

He joined Villa in January 2012, and made his full Premier League debut against Manchester United, one of six Premier League starts he has to his name.

In the 2013/14 season he had loan spells at Notts County and Doncaster Rovers, and while with the latter he made 13 Championship appearances.

He is available to face Burton Albion at Sixfields on Saturday.

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