Aston Villa V QPR - view commentary, squad, and statistics of the game live.Sherwood bemoans Villa injuriesBoss Tim Sherwood has revealed Aston Villa's injury crisis shows no sign of ending ahead of their crucial clash with QPR.Villa host Rangers on Tuesday knowing defeat would see their visitors leapfrog them and plunge Villa into the Barclays Premier League relegation zone.Alan Hutton, Ashley Westwood and Scott Sinclair are out while Tom Cleverley, Aly Cissokho and Kieran Richardson are major doubts.Philippe Senderos is unlikely to feature while Libor Kozak continues to recover from his broken leg.And Sherwood admitted some players may have to play through the pain barrier in Villa's survival fight."I've never seen an injury crisis like itI never thought I'd be one of those managers who moans about injuries but I have to," he said, with Villa 17th, three points ahead of QPR but with an inferior goal difference."You get one back and lose another two
They're not trivial injuries, they're always two, three, four weeks
It's okay in September but not now
That's pretty much writing off the season."It's something you have to get on with and hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel."It's a case of seeing who can come in
A few are back from injury, medically, but physically, it's a need-must situation
Some of them will be risked."Sherwood worked with QPR boss Chris Ramsey at Tottenham for seven years and Ramsey was his assistant when Sherwood was head coach at White Hart Lane last season.But the Villa chief insists their friendship will be put to one side ahead of the game
"I haven't spoke to him for a while
I keep red buttoning him," he joked, about hanging up on Ramsey's calls."Our relationship has not changed
I hope he does well
I respect Chris as a coach and a manager."For someone to put his head on the block like he has, good luck to him - not tomorrow though
I hope we both survive
"Chris has done a good job
It's impossible to judge someone who has come in with 15 games left, with someone else's players, with no pre-season and asked to turn it around
Give the boy a break."Meanwhile, confidence in the QPR camp is high heading into the crucial match.QPR had lost 13 of 14 league away games before Saturday's vital 4-1 victory at West Brom."It's a fantastic victory for us," QPR coach Chris Ramsey said in Monday's press conference
"The morale has been good, very professional."The players have this belief."QPR want to build on that success in Tuesday's game at Villa Park."We are going to approach the game in the same way as we have done in the past," Ramsey said.Ramsey believes QPR could have won previous games but lacked a finishing touch and also had shaky moments in defence."We are hoping that we can be as clinical as we were on Saturday," he said.On Villa, Ramsey said: "I would rather be going into the game with the advantage they have rather than us
We have more pressure."Even so, Ramsey knows Sherwood's Villa side are feeling the heat."Villa are close to us and they are going to want three points to climb further up above the line," Ramsey said.QPR have a sense of urgency to win at Villa and will have the same mindset when they host Premier League leaders Chelsea on Sunday.Ramsey believes his players can get a good result in both games."The Premier League is a league that things happen that you can't expect," he said.QPR are without Chilean winger Eduardo Vargas and South Korean left-back Yun Suk-young.Vargas is ruled out with a knee injury sustained against the Baggies while Yun will not travel for precautionary reasons after suffering a head injury in the same match.Ramsey is also without knee-injury victims Richard Dunne, Leroy Fer and Alejandro Faurlin while Darnell Furlong is still sidelined with a calf problem
Source : PA
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