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⚽️ Europa League final updates from the 8pm BST kick-off⚽️ Freiburg lowdown | The Europa League king | Mail ScottVilla have form for goalkeeper woes in European finals. Jimmy Rimmer went into the 1982 European Cup final with a sore neck, having taken a whack in training a couple of days before the match. He lasted nine minutes before giving way to 23-year-old substitute goalie Nigel Spink, who went on to have the match of his life. So all won’t be lost should the worst happen to Martinez …… though our man on the spot, Ben Fisher, has just reported that “the glove is now back on and he’s practising claiming crosses from coaches and the other goalkeepers.” So panic over, for now at least.Emi Martinez may have an issue here: Villa’s goalkeeping coach, Javi Garcia, has just spent the past couple of minutes taping one of Martinez’s fingers and now the Argentinian World Cup winner is continuing to warm up with his right goalie glove in his left hand. He looks very mobile, but it doesn’t seem ideal. Continue reading...
Aston Villa will play Champions League football again next season, regardless of what happens in Istanbul on Wednesday. Speaking in January 2024, Emiliano Martinez repeated what he had said when he first signed for the club: "We want to give fans a cup run, we want to give them the trophy, we want to give them Champions League football." Villa have delivered on most of it.
Aston Villa goalkeeper Emi Martinez has spoken about last summer's transfer saga for the first time since it looked like he could leave Villa Park for Manchester United. Martinez left the pitch in tears after Villa's final home game of last season against Tottenham 12 months ago, with the expectation it would be his last home game for the club.
Under the Roman lights of the Stadio Olimpico on Wednesday, the Coppa Italia final between Inter Milan and Lazio unfolded not as a classic of tension and reversals, but as a study in authority, control and inevitability. In a season already leaning heavily in their favor, Inter arrived in Rome with the confidence of Serie […] The post Lazio 0-2 Inter Milan: Nerazzurri Assert Authority and Control in Rome to Add Coppa Italia Trophy to Serie A title (Video) appeared first on Soccer News.
