Official Newcastle United injury update ahead of Aston Villa game

Ahead of the Aston Villa match there has been an official Newcastle United injury update.

NUFC return to Premier League action on Saturday.

A 5.30pm kick-off at St James’ Park.

Newcastle United looking to bounce back from the 4-1 defeat at Coventry City on Monday night.

Nico Gonzalez was the only player that was capable of returning from injury to the starting eleven on Monday, so how are things looking ahead of Villa?

Matthias Jaissle delivering this official Newcastle United injury update on Thursday at his pre-match press conference.

Bazoumana Touré

“Bazo seems to be much better, we’re happy for that. It didn’t look that way during the match. He’s progressing well in the last few days so hopefully he’s able to join the group on Saturday.”

Anthony Elanga

“Unfortunately Anthony’s been out for many weeks so now it’s the process to bring him back slowly but surely in a smart way. Hopefully next week he’s about to train again, at least partially, and then we can reintegrate him step by step.”

Tino Livremento

“With Tino we need to be cautious and we don’t rush him. We know about his injury situation and history but we’re optimistic in the next few weeks we can bring him back step by step.”

Jacob Ramsey

“With JJ it’s a bit different. He’s making progress. Hopefully next week he can join in partially in training and then we can build it from there.”

Joelinton and Dan Burn

“We need to manage it really carefully. We missed them so much. Joe has had more training compared to Dan and the next steps for both of them is to give them more game time. For Dan it will most likely be too soon to get that starting position already as he’s just trained a couple of times but for Joelinton it could be a bit different.”

Today’s Mattias Jaissle injury update is very much in line with what he said after Coventry. “Unfortunately, the match minutes were really limited [for Burn, Dedic, Joelinton and Osula]…we need to be smart because we had so many injuries already, so we followed the advice. We took the guys to the limit of what they could do. I am happy that they are back but it will take another couple of weeks before they are physically back to their best again.”

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