Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill has left seven of his regular first-team players out of the squad for Thursday’s UEFA Cup second-leg trip to CSKA Moscow.
Stand-in skipper Gareth Barry, Brad Friedel, Emile Heskey, Ashley Young, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Carlos Cuellar and Stiliyan Petrov are all excluded from the 19-man party announced today by the former Celtic boss.
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