Will Dibu Martínez play? Aston Villa boss keeps everyone guessing | OneFootball

El Dibu, Emiliano Martínez was left out at the last moment on Thursday from Aston Villa's visit to Feyenoord for the Europa League. When he was announced as a starter, he disappeared from the team after the warm-up, and Marco Bizot took his place. Immediately, the first reports indicated a calf strain and exclusion as a precaution, but this Friday, the villain's coach Unai Emery did not help to clear up the mystery.

On the same day that Lionel Scaloni included him in the squad for the friendlies against Venezuela next Friday and Puerto Rico on Monday the 13th, the coach held a press conference in which he did not go beyond revealing that the player from Mar del Plata underwent tests: “Tomorrow we will know if Emi Martínez will be available,” he postponed the matter regarding the Sunday match in the Premier League against Burnley.

“He just had an ultrasound an hour before the press conference, and I don't know exactly if he will be available. I don't know the result of the ultrasound,”, he added mysteriously, to emphasize having good replacements just in case: “We always plan to have players for two, three, or four positions, and confidence when they are available and when they are not. Players have to play with the same idea and in the same way that we are building the team. And Bizot did a fantastic job yesterday, following the game plan, our idea, and our demands on the field.”

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