Emiliano Dibu Martínez, it is known, is not only a very good goalkeeper, but also demonstrates a great personality. Playing for the Argentine world champion team, also for Aston Villa, in the Premier League. This Sunday, in a match against Brentford for the 17th round of the English competition, the goalkeeper was the protagonist in the victory by 2-1 that extended the good moment of the team led by Unai Emery.
The victory was not enough to climb to the top of the Premier League, which for the moment is owned by Arsenal (39 points), which beat Brighton 2-0 in London, with goals from the Brazilian Gabriel Jesús and the German Kai Havertz in the second time. The Argentine midfielder entered the visiting team Facundo Goodnight when they averaged 59 minutes. In any case, Aston Villa’s campaign is very good, since the team has 38 points like Liverpool, that drew goalless with Manchester United.
Aston Villa makes history with Dibu and Unai has now won 25 games this year, being This is the best record of victories in the entire history of the club in the Premier League.
The Birmingham team added their third consecutive victory after turning the match around thanks to goals from Spaniard Álex Moreno and Ollie Watkins, at 77 and 85 minutes of play.
Dibu was the protagonist beyond the fact that his team had 68% of the possession of the ball and that he finished 11 times on goal (against just 4 attempts by the home team). He first got a goal shot from Christian Nørgaard but towards the end of the first half, after a corner, he could not do anything against Keane Lewis-Potter’s cross shot. Martínez made another great save in the second half against a header from Yoane Wissa.
In the end, in the 90th minute, Emery’s team almost put the three points at risk: Dibu Martínez received a compromised pass from a teammate from very far back and almost ended up scoring a goal. Dibu stood up with a grim face and looked at his teammate as if to say: “What are we doing?”, but he immediately received a bump from an opponent, who wanted the goalkeeper to react and thus leave both teams with ten players.
In the 96th minute, Dibu returned the situation to Neal Maupay, who had hit him in the previous play of the back pass, seeking to generate the expulsion of the Argentine 1. The local team was already playing with ten players on the red, with central defender Ben Mee on the left. In added time, the rival in question (Neal Maupay) jumped down and began to complain from the ground to the referee in the rival field, but the Argentine goalkeeper, very angry at the performance, tried to lift him off the ground with both hands to make him see that he was not I had nothing. He tugged at his shirt with both hands very sharply. That generated a melee between the two teams and referee David Coote ended up admonishing Dibu.
