Premier League injury update: Is Aston Villa midfielder Morgan Rogers injured this week?

With just seven points separating fourth-placed Manchester City and Brentford in 11th, the Premier League table is tightly packed in the top half. Aston Villa is among the teams vying for points as they aim to secure a spot in European competitions for next season.

Next up for Unai Emery’s men is a Tuesday night trip to a Crystal Palace side that have won three of their last five Premier League matches.

Will Morgan Rogers be available on Tuesday for Aston Villa?

With Villa still competing on three fronts their squad is set to be tested in the coming weeks, so there was concern when in-form Morgan Rogers was taken off during the second half of the win over Chelsea at the weekend.

This is something Emery picked up on during his Monday press conference as he discussed the fitness of Rogers and Tyrone Mings, who was also forced off.

“The idea is to have subs performing well as well when we are not having every player available to play,” said the Villa chief, who was ranked at No.6 in FourFourTwo's list of the best managers in the world last year. “One of those is Morgan Rogers, but in case he is not available for tomorrow of course we are going to use another player and believe in our squad to help in the moment we will need them.

“We are going to train this afternoon and after we are going to travel to Palace. We will see. I don’t know exactly. We played on Saturday and did a bit effort physically and mentally. We have to recover physically and our energy is going to be very important tomorrow.”

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Rogers, who is valued at €40million by Transfermarkt, has started all but one of Villa’s 27 Premier League games this season, scoring six times and providing four assists.

“He is playing a lot of minutes because physically he can do it,” Emery said following the Chelsea win. “But today, he had a kick and was asking me to replace him. Hopefully, it’s not for a long time. Hopefully, he can play on Tuesday at Palace.”

Emery also confirmed Mings is a doubt, but had better news regarding Ezri Konsa who is fit against, while loan star Axel Disasi is available again after being forced to sit out the match against parent club Chelsea.

Boubacar Kamara, Amadou Onana and Pau Torres are on the comeback trail, but are not yet ready to feature, while Ross Barkley could return to the bench.