Dibu stars as Aston Villa fight back to win in the Premier | OneFootball

Dibu Martínez made decisive saves that allowed the Villans to win away from home and take all three points from Leeds.

A brace from Morgan Rogers overturned Lukas Nmecha’s controversial goal for Leeds United and gave victory to Aston Villa and Dibu Martínez, who are closing in on Champions League positions (1-2).

The Villans, who have now won three consecutive matches across all competitions, got off to a bad start in their visit to Elland Road when, in the eighth minute, Nmecha scored one of the most bizarre goals of the round.

With a ball dropping vertically into Villa’s six-yard box, Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez hesitated to catch it, and Anton Stach beat him in the air. A Villa defender cleared the loose ball off the goal line, but with such bad luck that it bounced off Nmecha’s body and went into the net.

The controversial Leeds goal: was it a foul on Dibu?

VAR spent quite some time reviewing a possible foul on the Argentine goalkeeper, but in the end, the goal stood and forced the Birmingham side into a comeback led by Morgan Rogers.

The attacking midfielder, who had recently challenged Jude Bellingham for a starting spot with England, equalized by poking in a cross from Donyell Malen from the right, and completed the comeback with a stunning free-kick goal from the edge of the box.

To seal the match, ‘Dibu’ redeemed himself with a fantastic low save against Pascal Struijk in the final five minutes, which would have meant an equalizer.

The win puts Aston Villa in sixth place, with 19 points, just one point off the Champions League spots, while Daniel Farke’s Leeds are on the brink of relegation. The ‘Whites’ are seventeenth, with twelve points, one more than West Ham United.

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