While he will no doubt have been happy for his teammates, you feel that watching on from afar,  Aston Villa's form in the second half of the season will have only added insult to injury for James Bree.

While his parent club have been making a seemingly unstoppable charge towards the play-offs, Bree has been on loan at an Ipswich side who have plummeted out of the Championship this season winning only two games since Bree's arrival on loan on deadline day of the January transfer window.

Now though the defender is set to make his return to Villa Park, and you wonder just how much expectation he will be taking back to The Midlands with him.

Since he joined Villa from Barnsley two and a half years ago, Bree has made just 28 appearances for the Midlands club, and you feel he will know that with the way they are playing right now, adding to that seems unlikely.

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Regardless of whether or not they win promotion via the play-offs, Villa will surely want to keep as much of this squad together as possible as they compete to either stay in the top tier or to reach it again, certainly if they win promotion they will be able to push to keep a number of their loanees who have helped get them there, and that does not seem like good news for Bree's own prospects at the club.

At 21, Bree is about to approach the peak years of his career, and he needs as many opportunities to enjoy them as possible, something he is not going to do sat on Villa's bench.

The defender still has two seasons left on his Villa Park contract, so he and his agent are going to have some work to over the summer if he is to earn himself an opportunity elsewhere. As someone who has had little game time at his parent club recently and has seen a loan spell end in a dismal relegation, it may not be an easy sell for Bree.

You feel however it is one he has to try and make, if he is going to get the most out of his career.