John McGinn: Aston Villa can win without Jack Grealish

The skipper, who sat out last weekend’s 2-1 defeat to Leicester with a shin injury, is again set to be absent when Dean Smith’s visit Leeds on Saturday evening.

Villa have lost all three Premier League matches Grealish has missed since winning promotion back to the top flight in 2019.

McGinn said: “Any team in the league is going to miss Jack. But we are more than capable of putting in better performances than we did (against Leicester) without him.

“There are going to be spells in a season when teams lose their best players. We have more than enough in that dressing room to get results. Starting next week we have three big games coming up.”

Villa, eighth in the Premier League table, visit Sheffield United next Wednesday before hosting Wolves on Saturday week.

McGinn added: “We can still make it a special season.”