Aston Villa are unbalanced on the right side of defence. Manager Unai Emery is obsessed with refining Villa to the smallest detail, but curiously, right-back remains a long-standing crease Emery is yet to iron out.
The squad is undoubtedly light there. Matty Cash — the only senior specialist option — is injured. In his absence, Emery has continued to moonlight alternatives: Lamare Bogarde, 18-year-old Kosta Nedeljkovic.
In the 2-2 draw against Ipswich Town, natural centre-half Ezri Konsa filled in, and Ipswich were purposeful on transition and punished the abundance of space, preying on one of Villa’s few blindspots.
It is now eight clean sheets in the past 44 league matches and though a first draw of the season does not call for drastic changes, right-back is a problem Emery needs to solve.
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