Leon Bailey returns to the fold for Aston Villa’s Premier League clash against Chelsea on Sunday.
The Jamaica international missed Monday’s 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest due to a small muscle injury, and a decision will be made on his game time before this weekend’s encounter at Villa Park.
Matty Cash and Cameron Archer returned to action at The City Ground and have been managing niggles this week but are expected to be okay.
Head coach Steven Gerrard has also provided an update on Boubacar Kamara, Diego Carlos, Lucas Digne and Ludwig Augustinsson, with the latter pair hopefully returning to the squad at the end of the month.
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“Leon Bailey trained yesterday so he’ll be available for the squad,” said Gerrard at Friday’s press conference.
“We need to have more conversations with the medical department to see whether he’s available from the beginning or his game time, but he’s been back since yesterday.
“Cameron Archer has still got his niggle in the background. At some point we’re going to have to address that in the future, but he’s trained again this week so Cam is available.
“Matty Cash never trained yesterday but that was just us managing him, he’ll be available.
“Kamara is progressing well, Carlos is progressing well, Lucas Digne, we’re hoping we could have him back towards the end of the month, without putting a game on that.
“I’m hoping if we progress Lucas in a safe way, we could have him available at the end of the month.”
