Aston Villa head coach Dean Smith hopes to benefit from Jack Grealish’s international confidence boost. The midfielder received rave reviews for his three appearances for England over the last week, including his first competitive start, having displayed the sort of form which has helped propel his club side to within three points of the top of the Premier League.
National team boss Gareth Southgate was full of praise for the 25-year-old and believes he can cope with the attention he is now getting.
Smith hopes Grealish will continue those sort of performances for Villa but insists the player did not need validation at international level to prove how good he is. “Hopefully it will give him an awful lot of confidence,” said the Villa boss,
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