Ian Ladyman has questioned why Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez proceeds to behave like an ‘idiot’ after he clashed with Neal Maupay during his side’s 2-1 victory from Brentford on Sunday.
Tempers flared at the GTech Group stadium, with referee David Coote reserving eleven gamers in advance of handing purple playing cards to each Ben Mee and Boubacar Kamara and Ollie Watkins scoring late for Aston Villa to see Unai Emery’s aspect lengthen their unbeaten operate to nine online games on the bounce.
Martinez was embroiled in the late drama just after he appeared to barge into Maupay right before theatrically slipping to the ground. Times later he was witnessed pushing the Frenchman to the ground, with the Argentine trying to pull the ahead again to his ft by his shirt.
The incident sparked a melee on the discipline that saw Kamara obtain a purple card soon after he appeared to push Yegor Yarmolyuk and manufactured make contact with with his facial area.
Talking on the latest episode of It’s All Kicking Off, Mail Sport’s Ladyman and Mike Keegan reflected on the Argentine goalkeeper’s antics at the 2022 Planet Cup and the lewd gesture he created with the Golden Glove trophy soon after his side were being topped champions.
Ian Ladyman has claimed that Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez (remaining) ’embarrased himself’ during his team’s 2-1 get about Brentford
It arrived immediately after the goalkeeper clashed with Neal Maupay for the duration of Aston Villa’s 2-1 victory
Speaking on It is All Kicking off, Ladyman added that Martinez hazards being remembered for the wrong motives right after his antics at the Earth Cup final yr
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‘Now, in that video game yesterday at Brentford, there were being 10 yellow cards from the 72nd moment onwards,’ Ladyman said on Sunday’s match.
‘Handbags is probably how you would explain most of it.
‘However, the Emiliano Martinez charade, well, two charades, on the 12-month anniversary of him behaving like an idiot in the Earth Cup remaining shootout in Qatar. That did go away a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth.
‘I really don’t like Martinez at all. And he ashamed himself yesterday. He ashamed himself yesterday.’
Talking via the on industry incident, Keegan replied: ‘It’s the transparency and the hypocritical mother nature of it. So it all starts off when there is the preposterous back again go that almost goes in [Villa’s goal].
‘There’s a bit of light call with the Brentford player [Maupay]. Who probably thinks what we believe of him, specified that he is dropped his shoulder on him a minor bit.’
‘I was likely to say, it was was Neil Maupay did set his shoulder in,’ Ladyman included. ‘But when you view it yet again, Martinez also helps make a transfer to stand in his route, so he understands what he’s performing.
Speaking of the minute Martinez dropped to the floor inside of his personal penalty spot, Keegan stated: ‘And then he goes totally flying, like the world’s ended. And then, minutes later on, the tables are turned.
‘And then he’s the 1, clearly has a enormous kickoff at Maupay’s rolling about.
‘And then he is the just one that’s owning a go at a Brentford participant for rolling about immediately after he is banged into me.
‘It’s like, appear on, like actually seconds in the past, you have been doing the exact point. He is [Martinez] is a person of these, if you are a Villa fan, I believe you adore him.
‘And all of us who aren’t Villa followers will not like him and it really is difficult to overlook the things like that,’ he included in reference to his antics adhering to the Globe Cup ultimate.
Just after the incident, a mele broke out on the pitch, with Martinez at the centre of the brawl
The spat saw Aston Villa’s Boubacar Kamara sent off right after he pushed Yegor Yarmolyuk
‘That’s a World Cup remaining when you happen to be behaving like that, these persons [France] are shedding a Environment Cup ultimate – have a bit of course.’
The Earth Cup winner is a notoriously colourful character and stole the limelight just after Argentina conquer France in the World Cup ultimate very last year with a controversial celebration that landed him in warm drinking water.
Martinez, who saved a penalty in the shootout, won the Golden Glove award as the tournament’s finest goalkeeper but as he was presented with his trophy and built a lewd gesture with the award.
FIFA subsequently opened an investigation towards the Argentine’s actions for a violation of their guidelines on offensive conduct and truthful engage in under report 11 of their Disciplinary Code.
In his column for Mail Sport, Graeme Souness calling the goalkeeper a ‘clown’ although concurring with Ladyman and Keegan that he had ’embarrassed himself and Argentina’.
Unai Emery also spoke out on on the make any difference, declaring he would be conversing to the 31-yr-outdated, introducing: ‘we have to have values and we have to target on conduct when we are together.’
But Ladyman admitted he feels Martinez will now be remembered for his gesture and not for the superb save he manufactured to deny Randal Kolo Muani a winner late on in the Entire world Cup ultimate.
‘I feel he is an fool, if I’m honest,’ Ladyman reported on Martinez. ‘I’ll upset people by indicating that. But I thought he was an idiot.
‘I considered he was an fool for what he did at the Entire world Cup remaining. And the simple fact that he hasn’t, he’s form of practically worn that as a badge of honour, which is pathetic.
‘Because he should be remembered for building 1 of the best saves I’ve ever found in a match of that magnitude. France would have received that game had Martinez not manufactured a good conserve late in more time.
‘He must be remembered for that. He must be remembered for his penalty saves. He is not. He’s remembered for behaving like a moron.
‘And he proceeds to do it. He is a pretty, really great goalkeeper. But he is a little bit of an fool. You shouldn’t excuse Maupay. Maupay did barge into him. That was stupid also. But the issue with Martinez is he’s acquired to monitor file for it.
Martinez was criticised by some immediately after he designed a lewd pose with the Golden Glove trophy
The goalkeeper helped avert France from securing a late earn, halting a shot from Randal Kolo Muani in the dying embers of the match
‘So he’s the just one that persons like us stop up chatting about. And the a single detail I considered was telling was while he was lying on the floor just after the Maupay barge, as although he’d been shot down by a hail of bullets.
‘One of his personal teammates is basically standing in excess of him, holding his hand down as if to say, come on, mate, get up. Let’s get on with it. Let us see this video game out.’
Regardless of the frosty close to the match, Villa moved to 3rd in the league desk, degree on 38 points with Liverpool and acquire on Sheffield United on Friday night time at Villa Park.
They confront a run of 3 online games in 8 times, with a vacation to Outdated Trafford coming on Boxing Working day, right before they enjoy Burnley on December 30.