Aston Villa winger Ashley Young insists he can handle the rough treatment meted out by opposition defenders. Young often finds teams deploying two players to man-mark him to stop his surging runs.

Young said: "Getting a kicking is par for the course and after every game I get a couple of ice packs to take home with me and ice whatever area has been kicked.

"But that is something you are always going to have to deal with, being kicked, and you just have to make sure you bounce back from that.

"I am used to it now. I just get up and get on with it."