Dibu stars as Aston Villa fight back to claim Premier League win | OneFootball

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

A brace from Morgan Rogers overturned the controversial goal by Lukas Nmecha for Leeds United and gave victory to Aston Villa led by Dibu Martínez, who are now approaching 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 fortuitous goals of the matchday.

With a ball dropping vertically in Villa’s six-yard box, Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez failed to decisively go for the ball 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 brilliant low save against Pascal Struijk in the final five minutes, which would have meant the equalizer.

The win allows Aston Villa to move up to sixth place, with 19 points, just one behind the Champions League spots, while Daniel Farke’s Leeds are left on the brink of relegation. The ‘Whites’ are seventeenth, with twelve points, one more than West Ham United.

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