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Alan Hutton picks out two Aston Villa 'unsung heroes' as squad depth assessed
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Alan Hutton has praised Ezri Konsa and Boubacar Kamara as two of Aston Villa's unsung heroes. The duo have been recognised by the former Villa right-back as players who can often be overlooked for plaudits while the likes of Marco Asensio and Morgan Rogers are shining at the top of the pitch. "I think there are a few of them," Hutton told Betway Insider about Villa's unsung heroes. "I think if you look at the likes of Ezri Konsa, who’s always fit, always plays. It doesn’t matter if it’s right-back or centre-back, he does a job anywhere. He just goes about his business quietly, and Boubacar Kamara does the same. "But I think he’s integral to what Aston Villa want to do. You think of him dropping off into those spaces, getting the ball off the defence, playing the ball forward. He’s that kind of security valve because Villa do like to put a lot of bodies forward, especially from wide, and he needs to be there to cover. "He does the dirty stuff, the hard stuff that maybe people don’t recognise as much as they do with the likes of (Marco) Asensio coming on, doing flicks and tricks and scoring goals, but you need these guys. "When he was out injured, he was a big miss. Youri Tielemans came in and did unbelievably well and has continued to do well, but Villa are at a moment in time when the squad is very strong, and I think that’s what you need to compete at the top end." Villa have an exciting final two months of the campaign ahead having progressed to the FA Cup and Champions League quarter-finals. Champions League opponents Paris Saint-Germain will not play on the weekend between facing Villa home and away after their match against Nantes was moved by the French football authorities. "I would love to see the Premier League help their teams out, I think it is an advantage," Hutton admitted. "You’ve got an opportunity there where you’re in the latter stages of the competition, you don’t have an extra game. Aston Villa play Southampton in between their games against PSG, but to have that time off to then go again would be beneficial. "Because you know how much it’s going to take out of you these two games. You’re talking about one of the best teams in Europe that you’re coming up against with an opportunity to get to the semi-finals, so any little advantage that you can have, even a one percent advantage, you’d want to take it. "France is a football nation. They want to give PSG the best opportunity to go and win it, so I totally understand it. It’s annoying from Aston Villa’s point of view because they don’t get that added advantage, so it would be nice. "It doesn’t have to happen in the earlier rounds, but when you start getting to the quarter-finals, semi-finals, surely there’d be somewhere along the line where they could fit that game in."
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