Sheffield United could be handed a number of early boosts for their trip to Aston Villa on Friday night

After defender Pau Torres hobbled off during Aston Villa’s fierce 2-1 victory over Brentford on Sunday, the team faces new injury concerns ahead of their visit from Sheffield United on Friday night.

With ten minutes remaining, the Spaniard pulled off of the fight and took

his seat on the bench. Birmingham World reports that the player appeared

to be in pain as he sat down and watched the remainder of the match.

In a match when ten players received yellow cards and Ben Mee was sent off for the Bees, Villa overcame a 1-0 deficit to defeat Brentford. Boubacar Kamara was red carded by the visitors, thus he will undoubtedly miss the Blades game.

“Hopefully it’s a small injury,” Emery stated in reference to Torres’ injury. With luck. The main issue at hand is Kamara’s red card.”

Villa’s victory kept them one point behind league leaders Arsenal and tied them on points with Liverpool in second place. The fact that Villa is the only Premier League team to have won every home game this season—as seen by Liverpool’s 0-0 draw with Manchester United on Sunday—highlights the magnitude of the challenge Chris Wilder’s team will face at Villa Park later this week.

Emery was not getting ahead of himself on Sunday as he turned his attention to Sheffield United, even though they

continued their great run. “Let’s keep going,” he said. We were attempting to

convey the same message—”keep going, move on”—even after our loss to

Nottingham Forest. It was a really good point when we were drawing in

Bournemouth, but it wasn’t sufficient to Feel completely at ease.

“We’re pleased that we won the three points at the end of the match and that we won today.” We are moving on because we have a fresh task coming up at home against Sheffield (United) on Friday. We need to strive to remain steady over the course of 38 games.”