Aston Villa’s Tyrone Mings faces long absence with ‘significant knee injury’

Tyrone Mings injured his knee on Saturday (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Aston Villa and England defender Tyrone Mings is facing a long spell on the sidelines as he is set to undergo an operation on a “significant knee injury”.

Mings was carried off on a stretcher in some distress in the first half of Villa’s season-opening 5-1 defeat at Newcastle after a seemingly innocuous tangle of legs with striker Alexander Isak.