Aston Villa’s head coach, Steven Gerrard, will miss the club’s next two Premier League games after testing positive for Covid-19. Gerrard will not be in the dugout for the Boxing Day fixture at home to Chelsea or Tuesday’s trip to Leeds. The club said in a statement: “Aston Villa can confirm head coach Steven Gerrard will be unable to attend our next two Premier League matches with Chelsea and Leeds United as he will be isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.” Villa’s meeting with Burnley last weekend was postponed because of the number of positive coronavirus tests in the squad and three Premier League games scheduled for Boxing Day are off. In total, 25 Boxing Day games across the top four divisions of English football have been postponed, with Covid outbreaks at Luton and Carlisle making their matches against Bristol City and Rochdale respectively the latest called off. Only 10 EFL fixtures are due to go ahead.