Aston Villa defender Jores Okore ruled out for the season

Aston Villa defender Jores Okore will miss the rest of the Premier League campaign after rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the match against Newcastle United on Saturday. 

Okore who joined the Villans this summer from Nordsjaelland was taken off injured half an hour into the game during Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Newcastle United and Villa have now confirmed that he could be out for nine months.

A statement on Aston Villa's official website read: "Following clinical examination and the results of an MRI scan, the club can confirm that Jores Okore sustained a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament injury in his right knee in the game against Newcastle on Saturday.


"Jores will undergo surgery in due course and he could be sidelined for a period of up to nine months."