Emiliano Martínez added a golden page to his career this Thursday afternoon with a colossal performance in France that led to the Aston Villa to the semi-finals of the UEFA Conference Leaguewhere waits for Olympiacos of Greece. His saves throughout the series left his team alive against Lille and the penalties in the Pierre-Mauroy Stadium They catapulted him as the hero of the day.
As a sign of celebration, the 31-year-old goalkeeper made a publication on his personal account instagramfollowed by more than 13 million people, with two postcards of the definition, when he covered up one of the executions and another at the precise moment in which he ordered the fans to silence Gala after being the target of boos in every intervention he made with the ball. In a few minutes, the post It had more than 600,000 likes and different companions of the Villains left their comment as Youri Tielemans and Matty Cashbut there was another that was not overlooked on rival soil: Lucas Digne.
The 30-year-old left back left a message made up of four hearts in the form of an emoticon and triggered the anger of his compatriots with the background of being a soccer player who emerged in the Inferiores del Lille. He jumped to Paris Saint-Germain in 2013 (PSG) and wore the shirts of Roma, Barcelona and Everton before joining the Birmingham team.
“You are just a shame to the Lillois people and France. How to love this individual who does not respect sports or a people? You’ve quickly forgotten where you come from“, one user counterattacked, while another social network account added: “Don’t even try to go back to Lille, they will give you the same treatment”. During his time with the French entity, he played 62 games with three goals and the same number of assists in more than 5,000 minutes of play.
The responses to Worthy They escalated in the level of aggressiveness because the insults were not left aside either: “Shit, we won’t see you in Lille!”. One profile stated: “Hearts for a guy who doesn’t respect the public that made you famous”. And they criticized: “He’s embarrassing us like Lillois and the French”. There were many messages that referred to the term “shame” to describe the situation and one person asked: “What are you talking about?”.
Lucas Digne he should not have suffered in the middle of the field Draw in the 2022 World Cup, as they did suffer Kingsley Coman and Aurélien Tchouaméni in the prisons developed in the Lusail Stadium. She was in the folder Didier Deschamps to be called up, but the coach leaned towards Theo Hernandez for that place. It is not cited Les Bleus since June of that year, when he played 90 minutes in the 1-0 defeat against Croatia in the UEFA Nations League. He added minutes in the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2021.
At the beginning of 2022, he began to be a partner of Emiliano Martínez at Aston Villa, who signed him in exchange for 27 million euros (USD 28 million) to Everton. He started against Lille and records 86 games with four goals scored and 10 assists.
The next game of the Villains It will be this Sunday from 11 a.m. Villa Park against Bournemouth on matchday 34 of the Premier League, which has him in the fourth place with 63 pointslast place available in the direct classification to the UEFA Champions League 2024/25. On the way to the end of the local tournament, they will face Chelsea, Brighton, Liverpool and Crystal Palace, while on Thursday, May 2, the first leg of the semifinals against Olympiakos in England will take place. The rematch will be a week later in Greece. The winner of that key will face the winner of Fiorentina-Bruges on Wednesday the 29th of that month in the AEK Arena of Athens.
