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

El Dibu, Emiliano Martínez was unexpectedly left out of Aston Villa's visit to Feyenoord on Thursday for the Europa League. Just as he was announced as the starting goalkeeper, he disappeared from the team after warming up and was replaced by Marco Bizot. Immediately, initial reports indicated a calf strain and precautionary exclusion, but on Friday, the villain's coach Unai Emery did not help clear up the mystery.

On the same day that Lionel Scaloni included him in the squad for the friendly matches against Venezuela next Friday and Puerto Rico on Monday 13, the coach gave a press conference in which he did not go beyond revealing that the Mar del Plata native had undergone tests: "Tomorrow we will know if Emi Martínez will be available," he deferred the issue about the Sunday's Premier League match against Burnley.

"An ultrasound was done 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 consider having good replacements just in case: "We plan to always have players, in two, three or four positions, and confidence when they are available and when they are not. The 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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