Christian Benteke Injury: Updates on Aston Villa Star's Hip and Return

Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke was ruled out of his club's important match with West Brom in their FA Cup quarterfinal on March 7 after suffering a hip injury, but returned for their match against Sunderland on March 14.

Continue for updates.

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Benteke Starts vs. Sunderland

Saturday, March 14

Aston Villa's official Twitter feed reported that Benteke would start against Sunderland. 

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Benteke out with Hip Injury

Saturday, March 7

BBC Radio 5Live broke the news, with Bleacher Report's Stan Collymore confirming the knock is just a minor one:

Benteke suffered a previous hip injury in 2013, when he was sidelined for a number of weeks, per Simon Stone of The Independent. 

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But it seems the attacker will return to duty soon despite the latest setback for him and Villa.

However, BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty highlighted how much the midlands club will miss their best striker in the short term:

Villa are not the same team without Benteke, and their form, even with the player available, has been poor to say the least.

Tim Sherwood's side face a dangerous relegation battle in the next few weeks, so the new boss will be hoping to get his most deadly weapon back on the pitch as soon as possible.