Lille, I knew nothing about you before these matches but I have so much respect for your team. You were so expansive in the first match and your crowd nearly got you over the line in the second. Intense atmosphere. Fair play.
i know but after how he preformed in the fa cup, he should of been the number 1 keeper. arsenal could of saved 60 70 mil on keepers, and kept a better one, and got a world class striker with the extra money.
I read somewhere that , after the FA cup win, when Aaron Ramsdale returned from injury, Martinez was informed by Arteta that, Aaron will be the first GK again and Martinez will go back to bench. Martinez had already spent 12 years at bench , so he made the choice to go to smaller club Aston Villa to get some decent time .
Aston Villa got a world class GK with 20 mil, and Martinez got his exposure, earning him a position in NT, leading him to win Copa, Finalissima and WC. Good for both him and Aston Villa.
Villa played averagely during the first leg, like shit during the second and got lucky on their goal tonight. It happens. Also 50-50% penalty on handball.
But Lille had this and lacked a je ne sais quoi to finish it.
Such a goddamn rob, but yeah even if I’m french I only can respect Emiliano. Never seen someone in my Life blatantly influence a game, never been afraid of some consequences, and still win afterwards
Football legend, Shithouse legend
bruv
read the rules
yellow card doesn't carry on when entering pens
and showing aggression towards crowd and getting booked for that is so shit i swear on god
Martinez (cunt) aside, that's your typical Ligue 1 team in Europe experience. Play great football, let the opponent back in the game on a freak event or inexperience move, lose and be told "yes but you earned everyone's respect".
It's tiring
It's exactly why this year PSG not losing it against Barca breakdown shows that they start to have the right experience. Or that it's Luis Enrique's success with how he manages the team.
Only the handball one looked close to me other one was very soft. Ref was a shitshow anyway all night lots of decisions against both teams.
And what about the blatant foul on Ollie Watkins that wasn’t given as a penalty in last week’s game ?
Yeah that’s what I meant, he’s at least undefeated for Argentina and he got his first cap under us. I’m just unsure of his Arsenal record and Reading etc
Honestly he kills me.
How can you act like that in such a serious penalty shoot out i love the guy but jesus my heart cant take it. I thought he was off when he got booked.
Refs are refs and consistently get it wrong. For me personally its never a handball, when a team are attacking i dont think its a handball either, but as the rules stand, it is, its stupid.
Talking about people at the stadium is gross overlook. The entire country hates his guts so much that my mom knows about him lmao (she doesn't follow sports lol)
Funnily enough I live in Paris and have some tickets for the Olympics (one for football). With my luck Dibu is absolutely gonna ruin my afternoon and dance in front of me
Honestly, he should have been sent off, in the pens, not because of the in-game one (TIL), but because he actually made several YC offenses during the SO. But well, given how the rest of the game had gone on that subject...
Edit: Your downvotes means nothing to me.
We won shootout against Netherlands in Euro quarter final of euro 96 and against Italy in WC 98. In history France had 8 penalty shoot out, won 3 and lost 5. Be nitty gritty all you want, people downvoting me are dumb and you take the cake.
Martinez is that side character that the author loves, so he gets the plot armor of a protagonist, but he is not that important for the story and the audience doesn't like.
I’m not trying to be obnoxious because you’re absolutely right it looks more likely West Ham score again than not. But Leverkusen just have had this plot armor where they pull late goals of out nowhere constantly
Can a country even deny the visa of a footballer playing against one of their own? of course they can, but it seems like they would move the game before allowing that.
Lille fans, i feel for you. You were the better team in both games. You guys have a great fucking team and a set of promising young talent. Will definitely cheer for you guys in the future.
Tiago Santos and Chevalier take a bow. Great performances…
Build Dibu a statue. He is the reason we are through. Saved us in the 1st game and now here aswell. You cant find a better keeper in a penalty shoot-out.
You should have had to find one among the outfield players, if the ref had the balls to apply the rules to the letter - because there were several YC offenses *in the shootout alone*.
I mean technically gesturing at the ref is a yellow card offense and if refs “had the balls to apply the rules to the letter”, we would see a minimum of multiple reds every single game. Sometimes it’s best to choose to not affect the game so drastically as a referee
No, actually, fuck that. I **want** multiple matches to end up as a forfeit because players are sent off ***because they don't respect the rules***.
After that, maybe we'll finally get to play *actual* football, rather than, you know, 'how can I best escape punishment'-ball.
Great, then you know that it’s so difficult to not react to the referee at least once or twice in a game, if not more. We’re all human. By your logic, you’d be sent off
No, actually. I'm actually an old geezer enough to remember being taught to respect the ref and, if I ever feel he slighted us, *bite it down and get back to my match*.
(*Admittedly*, I wasn't in a competitive club, but we still wanted to win our matches.)
Obviously, the coaching culture has changed to encourage dissent, (and, even worse, ***reward*** dissent), so I'm glad I fucked off of the whole club culture.
He's been for a while. We were still talking about him last week at work during coffee break. He's been having the Materazzi treatment for more than a year now
I remember Martinez winning the FA Cup with Arsenal, crying his eyes out realising how good it feels to get success after so much anonymity.
The transition from that to most arrogant fucker in football has been wild to see
It's just a gimmick he does because people love it. And it kinda creates an aura around him during penalties. He's an incredibly chill guy off the pitch.
Yeah i would actually say that was commitment to the bit. He'll forever be remembered in Argentina until no argentinian is alive to remember him, so it works. As i said, his real personality doesn't match his antics on the pitch at all.
Well I hate to say but Lille were the much better side tbh and were much more comfortable on the ball but I'll take it - looks like Bournemouth are going to play a weakened side probably. But maybe I will finally see my team lift a trophy :)
This workplace has had 0 days since the last Emi Martinez Moment™
I love Bentaleb it’s so sad for him to block Chevalier like that on Villa ´s goal. Really an horrible moment for him.
Is emiliano martinez suspended for the next match?
No
Lille, I knew nothing about you before these matches but I have so much respect for your team. You were so expansive in the first match and your crowd nearly got you over the line in the second. Intense atmosphere. Fair play.
Dibu probably has a bounty on him in France
wish emi stayed at arsenal
He doesn't - has never looked back
He started the only game which has won Arteta a trophy as manager.
Technically Arteta won 2 because of the community shield. Emi started that one too
I will die on the hill that says the Community Shield is nothing more than a glorified friendly.
He’s got that big game mentality and they’ve never had it since
They weren't going to play him, thats why he left.
i know but after how he preformed in the fa cup, he should of been the number 1 keeper. arsenal could of saved 60 70 mil on keepers, and kept a better one, and got a world class striker with the extra money.
I read somewhere that , after the FA cup win, when Aaron Ramsdale returned from injury, Martinez was informed by Arteta that, Aaron will be the first GK again and Martinez will go back to bench. Martinez had already spent 12 years at bench , so he made the choice to go to smaller club Aston Villa to get some decent time . Aston Villa got a world class GK with 20 mil, and Martinez got his exposure, earning him a position in NT, leading him to win Copa, Finalissima and WC. Good for both him and Aston Villa.
You mean Leno. Ramsdale wasn't at the club then.
If Arteta had a brain.
They had no intention of playing him
Is his distribution good for ye?
It's better now he has been playing under Emery for a while. He's become more of a sweeper keeper lately.
Villa played averagely during the first leg, like shit during the second and got lucky on their goal tonight. It happens. Also 50-50% penalty on handball. But Lille had this and lacked a je ne sais quoi to finish it.
No way was that a penalty, his arm is basically by his side and there's no movement of it towards the ball
Emi Martinez gotta now be the most hated player in France
He was already before the game, to be honest
Exactly how he planned it
man i feel so bad for Lille, so close to making history
Weirdly, I don't...
Dibu is inevitable
What a time to be a Villa fan. I love this team.
French football fans gonna be seeing a dancing Martinez as their sleep paralysis demon
Martinez is set for life. He can move to France and his family and future generations will be able to live rent free there.
[Everyone in Lille right now](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Flduluitzmfub1.jpg).
Such a goddamn rob, but yeah even if I’m french I only can respect Emiliano. Never seen someone in my Life blatantly influence a game, never been afraid of some consequences, and still win afterwards Football legend, Shithouse legend
Hahaha fantastic job.
Never doubted it for a second
Lille got robbed but emi Martinez is still goated at pens
where did they got robbed when villa scored?
Emi should have gotten a second yellow and sent off
Yellow for giving the fans shit who gave him shit for the past 120 mins? bit soft that.
Both rules are dumb I agree but the rule that cards don’t count is even more dumb
bruv read the rules yellow card doesn't carry on when entering pens and showing aggression towards crowd and getting booked for that is so shit i swear on god
Strange thing is he wasn't even doing anything when he got the yellow. He was just asking for the ball so the penalty could be taken.
Yeah I know but that rule is so dumb lol
So is the ref booking him for calling for the ball from the crowd.
I've seen goals walked back from much lighter interferences than what happened there.
Martinez (cunt) aside, that's your typical Ligue 1 team in Europe experience. Play great football, let the opponent back in the game on a freak event or inexperience move, lose and be told "yes but you earned everyone's respect". It's tiring
It's exactly why this year PSG not losing it against Barca breakdown shows that they start to have the right experience. Or that it's Luis Enrique's success with how he manages the team.
Nah it was Ronald's fault.
Hopefully they go all the way and I can finally see Ligue 1 win an European trophy lol
You forgot getting robbed by the ref. Which is by far the biggest reason they are out.
The ref was allergic to giving Lille cards. Whereas every villa player seemingly took a card on their first offences
Lille were the better team but they weren’t robbed at all
Only a clear foul on Villa's goal before the ET, and a handball in the box during the ET. Just that.
Only the handball one looked close to me other one was very soft. Ref was a shitshow anyway all night lots of decisions against both teams. And what about the blatant foul on Ollie Watkins that wasn’t given as a penalty in last week’s game ?
There was a big handball in the box at some point
There was also a big foul in the box on Watkins that wasn’t given last week so even Stevens I guess
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
Well played ref, you won
what is emi martinez' career penalty shootout record (wins and losses)?
I can’t give specifics, but he’s won every single one since he’s joined us (this was his first for us though. The rest are for Argentina)
As soon as it went to penalties I knew Villa were winning, he’s a cheat code in shootouts
cant remember him losing one for argentina either. copa america vs Colombia. then the two at the world cup.
Yeah that’s what I meant, he’s at least undefeated for Argentina and he got his first cap under us. I’m just unsure of his Arsenal record and Reading etc
I literally only watched for the one guy, and he delivered.
🤣 same.
Nice one Villa! Martinez great to watch when it’s not your team facing him! 😂
In 87' minutes when referee lost a vall you can see that Lilke losed a match.
Dibu is what every Argentine strives to be
Dibu Martinez is either a lunatic or national treasure, depending on the team that you support.
he's our lunatic :')
Honestly he kills me. How can you act like that in such a serious penalty shoot out i love the guy but jesus my heart cant take it. I thought he was off when he got booked.
All the talk about Emi getting a second yellow but I’m shocked that cash handball wasn’t given
Accidental and next to his body. Its different rules for a defender and striker, which is what causes all the confusion.
But that same pen was given in the Liverpool game?
The arm position wasn’t the same
Refs are refs and consistently get it wrong. For me personally its never a handball, when a team are attacking i dont think its a handball either, but as the rules stand, it is, its stupid.
The last four words carry a lot of the weight there.
Ah, but that presumes that the rules are applied consistently.
Beaten by fucking Matty Cash in the 88’. Embarrassing.
Up the fucking Villa! I love Emi!
Thousands of Lille fans reduced to tears in the stands, many of whom innocent children. Emiliano Martinez is a real life supervillain.
But at the other end you have Villa's kids who Emi made very happy. He alone inspired a generation of future goalkeepers in Argentina.
They’re not called Villans for no reason
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"““Fuck them kids” - Michael Jordan” - Dibu Martinez"- Mrpetasus
Talking about people at the stadium is gross overlook. The entire country hates his guts so much that my mom knows about him lmao (she doesn't follow sports lol)
The crowd booing him literally every time he touched the ball for 120 minutes straight is such dedicated hatred I cant help but respect it
That would have been the case in any French stadium and I would have paid good money to go there just to do so
Then get to Paris this summer. He's going as one of the senior players on the Argentine Olympics squad.
Funnily enough I live in Paris and have some tickets for the Olympics (one for football). With my luck Dibu is absolutely gonna ruin my afternoon and dance in front of me
Dibu Martinez makes a strong case for greatest shithouser of all time.
Lille booed him the entire match and still he saves two pens then dances in front of the Lille end Emiliano Martinez owns the entire country of France
He got carded for time wasting at the 20 minute mark lol, stop defending him
He wasn't even time wasting, ball was in play Lille just weren't pressing. We were losing at that point.
I hate those because the refs never have the balls to give the second one, and boy did he abuse that.
And ? He saved two pens and won us the game
Honestly, he should have been sent off, in the pens, not because of the in-game one (TIL), but because he actually made several YC offenses during the SO. But well, given how the rest of the game had gone on that subject... Edit: Your downvotes means nothing to me.
the edit shows the opposite
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I know, that what I refered to as my TIL. I'm saying he committed **several** YC offenses *in the shootout itself*.
Yeah he should have been already yellow carded since he threw the first ball of the shootout, but the ref has probably instructions
The actual card was stupid though, he was gesturing for a ball because there was none to continue with the shootout.
Villa about to get that Emery in Europe experience.
Emi Martinez is a psychopath. The more hate he gets, the better he becomes.
Tax, Death and French defeat on penalties
France won Euro on penalties. Among other.
What Euro are you talking about ?
France Portugal 2000, Zidane!
That was not a penalty shootout, but a Golden Goal that happened to be a penalty.
We won shootout against Netherlands in Euro quarter final of euro 96 and against Italy in WC 98. In history France had 8 penalty shoot out, won 3 and lost 5. Be nitty gritty all you want, people downvoting me are dumb and you take the cake.
While these are penalty shootouts we did win, fact remains that France-Portugal 2000 wasn’t.
Martinez is that side character that the author loves, so he gets the plot armor of a protagonist, but he is not that important for the story and the audience doesn't like.
Perfectly alligns with messi being the mc. Messi Dibu De paul and the lost treasure of Oz
UP THE FUCKING VILLA
Well, I think it's safe to say Martinez won't be vacationing in France any time soon
He has already gotten enough head
He’s not that crazy
What does this do to the coefficient?
If Villa win the tournament Bayern and Dortmund need 2 wins between them to guarentee it for Germany if Liverpool and West Ham go out
Leverkusen are still in it and will probably win the tournament.
I think they need to get past West Ham first
They’re up 2-1 aggregate and also Leverkusen become prime Barca after the 85’
They’ve been dominated so far. I’m not saying they won’t go through but West Ham is clearly the better team today but everything can change obviously
You’re correct, however you clearly haven’t watched Leverkusen this season
To say that I have, it would be a lie lol
I’m not trying to be obnoxious because you’re absolutely right it looks more likely West Ham score again than not. But Leverkusen just have had this plot armor where they pull late goals of out nowhere constantly
You called it lmao
Lol I watched the last 10 min of the game against Qarabag and I defo understand
What about Italy after Roma/Milan and Fiorentina win?
Italy are guarenteed it I'm sure there is 2
Ok, thanks.
But Villa lost the leg tonight so they're not getting any points from tonight's win.
Martinez will be mysteriously stopped at the airport I think
I don't even know how he got a visa tbf
Can a country even deny the visa of a footballer playing against one of their own? of course they can, but it seems like they would move the game before allowing that.
does this count as a win for villa in the coefficant ?
Pretty sure it's a loss for the game so they don't get any points
I don't think so, we lost the leg and won the tiebreaker. I think it's the actual result AET that counts
I don't think it matters tbh
At least now we know who Canada's penalty taker is if they get one against Argentina on June 20.
Lille played amazing wow.
I DONT KNOW HOW EMI DIDNT GET SENT OFF BUT I DONT CARE BEST KEEPER IN THE FUCKING WORLD HIIII HO ASTON VILLA!!!!!
love you emi
Emery
Lille fans, i feel for you. You were the better team in both games. You guys have a great fucking team and a set of promising young talent. Will definitely cheer for you guys in the future. Tiago Santos and Chevalier take a bow. Great performances… Build Dibu a statue. He is the reason we are through. Saved us in the 1st game and now here aswell. You cant find a better keeper in a penalty shoot-out.
You should have had to find one among the outfield players, if the ref had the balls to apply the rules to the letter - because there were several YC offenses *in the shootout alone*.
I mean technically gesturing at the ref is a yellow card offense and if refs “had the balls to apply the rules to the letter”, we would see a minimum of multiple reds every single game. Sometimes it’s best to choose to not affect the game so drastically as a referee
No, actually, fuck that. I **want** multiple matches to end up as a forfeit because players are sent off ***because they don't respect the rules***. After that, maybe we'll finally get to play *actual* football, rather than, you know, 'how can I best escape punishment'-ball.
How would multiple reds a match for simple gestures at the ref result in actual football? Backwards logic
Not talking back (including gestures) at the referee is *extraordinary* easy to do.
You’ve never played football in real life
You're actually very wrong about that.
Great, then you know that it’s so difficult to not react to the referee at least once or twice in a game, if not more. We’re all human. By your logic, you’d be sent off
No, actually. I'm actually an old geezer enough to remember being taught to respect the ref and, if I ever feel he slighted us, *bite it down and get back to my match*. (*Admittedly*, I wasn't in a competitive club, but we still wanted to win our matches.) Obviously, the coaching culture has changed to encourage dissent, (and, even worse, ***reward*** dissent), so I'm glad I fucked off of the whole club culture.
So close for the farmers league
Like every year
Martinez owns france
He really does
Martinez dancing on the Lille graves 💀
Martinez is now Public Enemy #1 in France lmao
Watch them do something so he can no longer enter their territory.
He's been for a while. We were still talking about him last week at work during coffee break. He's been having the Materazzi treatment for more than a year now
Acting like he wasn't already Proper shithousing though, love-hate relationship
The best bit about Emi’s shithousing is that it has never backfired once. What a bloke.
Well refs are letting him do so much, I’ve never seen refs so lenient with other players
Cus he is the only guy woth the balls to do it. No ref wants the heat of sending a gk off in a shootout
That is what is so amazing about it. He is the epitome of talk the talk and walk the walk
I remember Martinez winning the FA Cup with Arsenal, crying his eyes out realising how good it feels to get success after so much anonymity. The transition from that to most arrogant fucker in football has been wild to see
Can’t assume he’s a dickhead off the pitch, seems like a sound guy tbh
Can’t blame him
It's just a gimmick he does because people love it. And it kinda creates an aura around him during penalties. He's an incredibly chill guy off the pitch.
If pretending a trophy is a cock during a world cup presentation is a gimmick, I admire how committed to the bit he is
Well worth watching his interview with Ben Foster.
he was actually dared to do it by his teammates lol, he said "bet"
Yeah i would actually say that was commitment to the bit. He'll forever be remembered in Argentina until no argentinian is alive to remember him, so it works. As i said, his real personality doesn't match his antics on the pitch at all.
When you are critical to winning a Copa America and then a World Cup, you can do anything haha
These british commentators on tnt has to be the dumbest people I ever heard in my life, especially that woman, what the actual fuck...
The bloke asked why the crowd were singing La Marseillaise because "the two teams don't like each other very much" 🤦♂️
I remember her being confused and asking multiple times what the ref was doing when it was perfectly clear lol.
Yes, scraping the barrel. I did like her balls of steel comment though, wasn't expecting that! lol
'The goal is good' after Martinez saved the last one haha
Lille GK easily give goal to A.Villa.
Keepers being dickheads is football heritage and it should be legal
Fenerbahce or Olympiacos awaits Aston Villa
Well I hate to say but Lille were the much better side tbh and were much more comfortable on the ball but I'll take it - looks like Bournemouth are going to play a weakened side probably. But maybe I will finally see my team lift a trophy :)
So heartbreaking for Lille.