{"id":22416,"date":"2011-12-26T23:34:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T23:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/heskey-adds-to-villa-injury-woes\/"},"modified":"2011-12-26T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T23:34:22","slug":"heskey-adds-to-villa-injury-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/26\/heskey-adds-to-villa-injury-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Heskey adds to Villa injury woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"53.192041522491\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bda357577418_57577417.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Alex McLeish\" \/> McLeish has Gabriel Agbonlahor and Nathan Delfouneso among his fit strikers<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish is facing a striker shortage after Emile Heskey joined Darren Bent on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Heskey suffered a recurrence of an Achilles injury in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/16240578.stm\" title=\"Stoke 0-0 Aston Villa\">goalless draw at Stoke<\/a>, while Bent is set for more tests on a troublesome thigh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emile Heskey couldn&#8217;t go on with his ongoing Achilles problem. He might be out for a while now,&#8221; said McLeish.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Gabriel Agbonlahor: 5 goals<\/li>\n<li>Darren Bent: 5<\/li>\n<li>Stiliyan Petrov: 3<\/li>\n<li>Marc Albrighton:2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of Bent, he added: &#8220;We thought he was ready for this one. He will have a scan in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked when Bent may return, McLeish said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. If there is new fluid we will know it is a fresh injury. If not he will be close [to facing Chelsea on 31 December].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Youngster Nathan Delfouneso replaced 33-year-old former England international Heskey at half-time at the Britannia Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Bent has not played since the 2-1 win over Bolton on 10 December and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/16239319.stm\" title=\"Bent sorry over 'shopping trip'\">had to apologise<\/a> after a photo was posted on Twitter claiming to show the striker out shopping while his team-mates were losing 2-0 to Liverpool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> McLeish has Gabriel Agbonlahor and Nathan Delfouneso among his fit strikers Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish is facing a striker shortage after Emile Heskey joined Darren Bent on the sidelines. Heskey suffered a recurrence of an Achilles injury in the goalless draw at Stoke , while Bent is set for more tests on a troublesome thigh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heskey adds to Villa injury woes - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/26\/heskey-adds-to-villa-injury-woes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Heskey adds to Villa injury woes - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"McLeish has Gabriel Agbonlahor and Nathan Delfouneso among his fit strikers Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish is facing a striker shortage after Emile Heskey joined Darren Bent on the sidelines. 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