Ian Ladyman has questioned why Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez continues to behave like an ‘idiot’ after he clashed with Neal Maupay through his side’s 2-1 victory against Brentford on Sunday.
Tempers flared at the GTech Group stadium, with referee David Coote reserving eleven gamers just before handing crimson playing cards to the two Ben Mee and Boubacar Kamara and Ollie Watkins scoring late for Aston Villa to see Unai Emery’s facet lengthen their unbeaten operate to 9 games on the bounce.
Martinez was embroiled in the late drama soon after he appeared to barge into Maupay just before theatrically slipping to the floor. Moments later he was witnessed pushing the Frenchman to the flooring, with the Argentine making an attempt to pull the ahead back again to his toes by his shirt.
The incident sparked a melee on the subject that noticed Kamara receive a pink card soon after he appeared to push Yegor Yarmolyuk and manufactured make contact with with his face.
Talking on the hottest episode of It’s All Kicking Off, Mail Sport’s Ladyman and Mike Keegan mirrored on the Argentine goalkeeper’s antics at the 2022 World Cup and the lewd gesture he manufactured with the Golden Glove trophy just after his facet were topped champions.
Ian Ladyman has claimed that Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez (still left) ’embarrased himself’ through his team’s 2-1 gain more than Brentford
It came following the goalkeeper clashed with Neal Maupay all through Aston Villa’s 2-1 victory
Speaking on It really is All Kicking off, Ladyman extra that Martinez pitfalls remaining remembered for the erroneous good reasons following his antics at the Earth Cup final year
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‘Now, in that sport yesterday at Brentford, there were being 10 yellow cards from the 72nd minute onwards,’ Ladyman said on Sunday’s recreation.
‘Handbags is almost certainly how you would describe most of it.
‘However, the Emiliano Martinez charade, perfectly, two charades, on the 12-month anniversary of him behaving like an idiot in the Planet Cup final shootout in Qatar. That did depart a bit of a bitter style in my mouth.
‘I do not like Martinez at all. And he embarrassed himself yesterday. He embarrassed himself yesterday.’
Speaking by the on discipline incident, Keegan replied: ‘It’s the transparency and the hypocritical nature of it. So it all commences when there’s the preposterous again pass that approximately goes in [Villa’s goal].
‘There’s a bit of gentle speak to with the Brentford player [Maupay]. Who probably thinks what we think of him, supplied that he is dropped his shoulder on him a tiny bit.’
‘I was likely to say, it was was Neil Maupay did put his shoulder in,’ Ladyman extra. ‘But when you view it yet again, Martinez also can make a transfer to stand in his route, so he is aware what he is doing.
Talking of the instant Martinez dropped to the ground within his individual penalty region, Keegan mentioned: ‘And then he goes unquestionably flying, like the world’s ended. And then, minutes afterwards, the tables are turned.
‘And then he’s the just one, of course has a substantial kickoff at Maupay’s rolling about.
‘And then he is the one particular which is having a go at a Brentford player for rolling about after he is banged into me.
‘It’s like, arrive on, like virtually seconds in the past, you had been accomplishing the exact same point. He’s [Martinez] is one of individuals, if you might be a Villa fan, I assume you like him.
‘And all of us who aren’t Villa lovers never like him and it is really really hard to ignore the things like that,’ he added in reference to his antics subsequent the World Cup remaining.
Right 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 soon after he pushed Yegor Yarmolyuk
‘That’s a World Cup closing when you happen to be behaving like that, these folks [France] are dropping a Planet Cup closing – have a bit of class.’
The Globe Cup winner is a notoriously colourful character and stole the limelight immediately after Argentina defeat France in the Planet Cup final past yr with a controversial celebration that landed him in hot h2o.
Martinez, who saved a penalty in the shootout, gained the Golden Glove award as the tournament’s greatest goalkeeper but as he was presented with his trophy and created a lewd gesture with the award.
FIFA subsequently opened an investigation versus the Argentine’s steps for a violation of their policies on offensive behaviour and honest perform underneath write-up 11 of their Disciplinary Code.
In his column for Mail Sport, Graeme Souness calling the goalkeeper a ‘clown’ when concurring with Ladyman and Keegan that he had ’embarrassed himself and Argentina’.
Unai Emery also spoke out on on the make any difference, professing he would be talking to the 31-12 months-previous, adding: ‘we have to have values and we have to concentration on behaviour when we are jointly.’
But Ladyman admitted he feels Martinez will now be remembered for his gesture and not for the superb preserve he manufactured to deny Randal Kolo Muani a winner late on in the Entire world Cup closing.
‘I feel he’s an idiot, if I’m genuine,’ Ladyman mentioned on Martinez. ‘I’ll upset people by indicating that. But I considered he was an fool.
‘I believed he was an idiot for what he did at the Globe Cup ultimate. And the point that he has not, he is kind of almost worn that as a badge of honour, which is pathetic.
‘Because he ought to be remembered for generating just one of the very best will save I have at any time found in a recreation of that magnitude. France would have won that game had Martinez not designed a outstanding preserve late in added time.
‘He should really be remembered for that. He need to be remembered for his penalty will save. He is not. He is remembered for behaving like a moron.
‘And he carries on to do it. He’s a incredibly, really fantastic goalkeeper. But he’s a little bit of an idiot. You should not excuse Maupay. Maupay did barge into him. That was stupid also. But the difficulty with Martinez is he is bought to keep track of record for it.
Martinez was criticised by some following he created a lewd pose with the Golden Glove trophy
The goalkeeper aided avert France from securing a late earn, halting a shot from Randal Kolo Muani in the dying embers of the match
‘So he is the one particular that folks like us end up talking about. And the one detail I considered was telling was while he was lying on the floor just after the Maupay barge, as though he’d been shot down by a hail of bullets.
‘One of his individual teammates is in fact standing around him, holding his hand down as if to say, appear on, mate, get up. Let’s get on with it. Let’s see this match out.’
Even with the frosty finish to the match, Villa moved to 3rd in the league table, amount on 38 points with Liverpool and acquire on Sheffield United on Friday night at Villa Park.
They face a run of three online games in 8 times, with a excursion to Outdated Trafford coming on Boxing Working day, right before they play Burnley on December 30.