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It seemed like another day in the office for Emiliano Martínez and Aston Villa snatched a draw (which could have been something else) against Arsenal, but the referee gave six minutes of added time that was tragic for the Birmingham team and for their goalkeeper.
Dibu did not need to make major interventions throughout the match, although he did respond with confidence when necessary.
Nothing can be blamed for the Gunners’ first two goals, because Buyako Saka shot him in the partial 1-1 draw.
And then, Eddie Nketiah was able to equalize again early in the second half but it was Zinchenko who took the ball sent by Martin Odegaard to execute a precise shot from outside the area to make it 2-2. Martínez flew but did not arrive.
Aston Villa seemed to get a point from Mikel Arteta’s team, who had been unable to win in the last three dates, but in added time everything changed.
At 93 minutes into the game, Jorginho took a powerful shot from the outside, which hit the crossbar, with such bad luck for Dibu, that the rebound hit his head and went into his own goal: 3-2, but Aston Villa did not he gave up.
And in the last play, stopped ball, the world champion goalkeeper He went to the rival area to look for the winning goalbut Lucas Digne’s cross was cleared, the counterattack came out and in three touches the ball reached Gabriel Martinelli who defined before an empty fence.
Unai Emery, Aston Villa coach, disagreed with the decision of his goalkeeper, Emiliano Martínez, to go up to finish off the last corner of the game, which cost him the fourth goal against the Villains.
“He decided for himself,” Emery said at the subsequent press conference. “Maybe there have been a couple of cases in history where the goalkeeper comes up at the last minute and scores, but normally they score more than you score,” added the Spanish coach.
It was a 4-2 victory for Arsenal, who returned to the top of the Premier League.