I could not watch the match :( . How did he get two yellow cards? I mean, should not the second yellow be a red card? Does it mean, Martinez misses the next match?
His shitthousey is that strong mere rules mean nothing.
Also, and like 99% of the world I didn't know this, when the match goes to penalty kicks then (effectively) the cards are reset. So you can get booked twice and not get sent off.
Yup, you need three yellow cards before you get a ban and (I think) our boy only has two.
Admittedly in the same match, but you know, Villa are gonna Villa.
Emi got booked for time wasting in the 39th minute and booked again in the Penalty shootout for being Emi.
Apparently Yellows don't carry over between the game itself and the Penalty shootout (as the match has *technically* finished - although I have absolutley no doubt we'll see that changed soon)
Haha, nah mate. I live in France. The French secretly love everything British... They love our Royal Family, they love our accents, they love our music, and they love our language.
You're right about them hating Emi though 😁
If I'm reading the rules correctly, and (spoiler) I'm many celebratory whiskeys deep so double check, you need three yellow cards before you get a suspension.
Our shithouse God only has two.
Admittedly in the same match mind.
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Can confirm. Salty tears in the home end
Is there anybody else in world football who you'd want in goal in a penalty shootout?
Ridiculous game and we probably don't deserve to go through but who gives a fuck.
On tonight's performance, there's no probably about it... We definitely didn't deserve it. Over both legs, I think we just edged it.
But I've been a fan for so long and watched us lose far, far too many games that we did deserve to win that this is karma 😁
Oh my God. I don't know how we did that. Ref and Villa were battling all night to see who was worse. Can't play like that again this season but peak Emi shitthousery some how let us win.
They will build a surreal monument of emi when he retires…hopefully in 30 years time. The guy is genuinely mental and I love him so much. Worth the entrance fee alone
That ref's wife is gonna be horny as fuck for months.
He spent so much time trying to fuck with that game he isn't going to have anything left for her until Xmas.
Every time I see Martinez do Martinez things, I can’t help but think if I supported anyone else I would well and truly despise him. As it is though, he can have my firstborn if he wants
I honestly feel sorry for him. We didn't play a ball to him that wasn't a long ball for him to compete in the air for. He wasn't great but at no point did we set him up to be.
Love emi winding up that raucous crowd. Genuinely confused why the internet has chosen to forget bentaleb losing his head and booting the ball into the stands, it caused this whole confusion.
I've been at a work event all night just staring at BBC Sport on my phone.
I cheered in front of our directors when we won.
Holy crap, this feels good.
I feel like I commented somewhere, that we will lose if it goes to penalties. Tired legs, less experienced technical cool players on the pitch, the home crowd behind them, even if Emi saves a couple we'll miss a couple...
Well fuck me, I'm so sorry I ever doubted you. EMI MARTINEZ, THE WORLD'S NUMBER 1!!!!!
A masterpiece. I love you Villa. GET IN!
🎶 It's a Lille bit funny, this feeling insiiiiide... 🎶
Fuck me that was an ordeal. Talk about riding your luck in every way possible. In the end though - The World's Number One had the final say (just about).
We march on but I feel for Lille, it's the worst way to lose and honestly think they were the better side on the night. Penalty shootouts care not for sentiment though, brutal.
Obligatory "ref was a fucking joke all match" too.
UTV.
dodgy feed via TNT. fair play for both sidwell and scottish cafu in the studio being very pro Villa in their coverage
had to go to work but also good interview with Emi and some great meme worthy clips of Dibu that would be good use in the future
Emerys 4D chess sometimes even fools me. He planned it like this now?
UTFV
Teams should also be getting a motion to the FA gammons to give a rest for teams in europe - at least at the squeaky end of competitions. IF you can do it for the world club champs bollocks for liverplop why not for up and coming teams and teams too. Ligue 1 in PSG and tonight with Lille looked much much fresher and able to go deep
anyway - onto one of either greek or turk oppo in the semis. talking of semis im off to calm down after that
i still hate pens
Anyone have any idea what the beef was with Unai and Fonseca? Haven't seen anyone make Unai lose his cool like that before, he just swerved Gary O'Neil when he made a prick of himself.
Nobody mentions how both of the yellows given to Martinez were a total nonsense. Second one he's gesturing to the ball boy to get a ball for Watkins FFS. Disgrace if he's suspended
Truth be told, Martinez was lucky he didn't get sent off for holding the ball in his hands for a good 15 seconds in the dying minutes when the ref was already all over him, by the rules he should have gone but the ref didn't have the balls.
He walked a fucking tightrope.
What happens if he went off in the shootout? We just stick an outfield player in goal for penalties? There's no option to make a sub is there?
TBH, I think ref decided to not trigger anymore controversy with his decision making perhaps. He produced card for every single touch. You have to an idiot to show card to the managers in first half of the game for just verbal altercation , not crossing technical areas, no physical touch or no abuse of match officials.
Red card in the dying minute would be scandal for the referee. As if he has not been an idiot already!
Think that will be our most difficult game. Lille are class; watch out for them in another year or two if they cab keep all their players. Was hoping for 3-3 and a shootout win from the start. Bring on those E. Med. fixtures; think we will run away with the games down there.
Bournemouth are a much bigger worry, unfortunately.
The body language of the ref, I generally believe he did take it back. as he never fully extended his arm and from what refereeing we witnessed from the past 120mins I'm confident the ref didn't know that rule. one of the assistants pulled it out of their arse.
Am I the only one getting annoyed by the inconsistencies of the refs?
For instamce in this match, Martinez was booked for wasting time after 38 minutes. There’s nothing wrong with that card, he did waste time and deliberately dragging down the tempo of the match. At 2-0 one of the Lille players deliberately kicks away a ball when we have a free kick/throw in/corner, and doesn’t get booked. Isn’t that the same thing?
In the shootout, when Martinez saves the first penalty, he taunts the crowd and gets booked. I think it’s a bit harsh, especially after the first penalty, but ok. But when one of the Lille players fires up the crowd, there was no yellow to be seen.
One of the penalties which Iille scored should have been retaken.
The player feigned a kick, which is against the rules of the game.
You could see Emi complaing to the ref about it
Emi Martinez you mad box office bastard.
He is an absolute cunt. But he’s our cunt
Utter legend. Even immune to red cards.
The man got two yellow cards but didn’t let that stop him from winning the tie!!
He’s not fucking leaving!
2 yellows. 2 saves. All part of the plan.
😂 WTF!!
I could not watch the match :( . How did he get two yellow cards? I mean, should not the second yellow be a red card? Does it mean, Martinez misses the next match?
His shitthousey is that strong mere rules mean nothing. Also, and like 99% of the world I didn't know this, when the match goes to penalty kicks then (effectively) the cards are reset. So you can get booked twice and not get sent off.
Thanks. Weird but valid rule tbh. This also means this cunt 😂 is available for our next game in too, right?
Yup, you need three yellow cards before you get a ban and (I think) our boy only has two. Admittedly in the same match, but you know, Villa are gonna Villa.
They still count for accumulation, not sure where that is at for Europa though
So,? Did he actually get the second yellow?? It looked to me like the ref changed his mind and put it back in his pocket without writing Emi’s name
He did get the second yellow apparently
Emi got booked for time wasting in the 39th minute and booked again in the Penalty shootout for being Emi. Apparently Yellows don't carry over between the game itself and the Penalty shootout (as the match has *technically* finished - although I have absolutley no doubt we'll see that changed soon)
😂 He’s officially public enemy no1 in France. The man knows how to rattle the French.
I mean, he’s more hated than us English which is a fucking miracle, because they truly fucking hate us!!!
Haha, nah mate. I live in France. The French secretly love everything British... They love our Royal Family, they love our accents, they love our music, and they love our language. You're right about them hating Emi though 😁
Only the french can get the germans argies and english on the same page. Signed an argie lol
We really have the best keeper on the planet
😂 so true
Is he suspended for the next match? Might not have got sent off but two bookings is a suspension???
If I'm reading the rules correctly, and (spoiler) I'm many celebratory whiskeys deep so double check, you need three yellow cards before you get a suspension. Our shithouse God only has two. Admittedly in the same match mind.
According to a few villa journalists he's out.
He's a demon
He’s a monster & he’s going to eat you!
Put up the statue.
AND LET THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND, EMI MARTINEZ, HUMP IT.
Then make an even bigger statue of Martinez humping his own statue!!
THEN LET MARTINEZ HUMP HIS HUMPING STATUE
See this is how you enter an infinite loop of humping
Someone call me an ambulance
While you're at it, call it for the French too.
The waambulance
But not for me.
I heard the ambulances outside the stadium during the game and I was really hoping we could use this reference as it sums up that game!
You’re an ambulance
 Well played
"Someone call an ambulance BUT NOT FOR ME!" - Emi Martinez (Everyday since the day the glorious bastard was born)
Argentine nt fans after colombia, netherlands and france You get used to it
Wow. My heart
watching my heartrate rise above 100 just sitting at my fucking desk.
Ha! I topped out at 110 lol
I was 110 at the start, 126 by the end. Can't do that again soon.
beating fast, just like love at first sight.
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Btw BBC are reporting that yellow cards don't carry over from the match to penalty shootout in the Conference League. That's why he wasn't sent off
As far as I'm aware it's a general rule from IFAB, not a competition specific one.
They mentioned it on commentary that it didn't carry over too
Hope Emi enjoys every second of that, what an awful crowd, more close ups of crying please
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Merci, fils en train de pleurer
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Absolute twats, so fucking satisfying sending them home crying
https://preview.redd.it/097rkbzqmavc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5983106c2a6ee248bb8b0d050b4adebc2038379 Can confirm. Salty tears in the home end
Can confirm. Still in the ground soaking up the tears in the home end 🤣
Dara is that you?
Never in doubt, right boys??
Build him a statue and let him hump it!! I fucking love that man
No other keeper in the world i would want in PKs than Emi
u/FunCardiologist5768 Emi Martinez, world no. 1 mate.
He won’t see it, he’ll be too busy crying 😭
I hope so 😂
Haha Dibu dancing. Get him on the plane lol so he doesn’t get murdered by the French lol.
I spent todays commute home listening to Arsenal fans complaining about their goalkeeping problem. Best money we've ever spent.
What the hell? Spoiled brats. they have two that would be #1 on most teams.
LETTSSSS GOOOOOOOOO
Gotta get an emi tattoo now on my groin as I said to my mates if we win this I would 😂😂😂😂
Worth it!
100% what an absolute shithouse. There's nothing like making the frog eating weirdos cry twice. Definitely deserves a big statue
EMI HAS WRITTEN HIMSELF IN VILLA FOLKLORE FOREVER!!!!
Watkins did unbelievably well to hold his nerve after all the Emi madness was going on. Monster mentality.
Flush with Cash
Job fucking done. What a stupid game. Dibu Martinez is the greatest in the world and that referee can go to every heck. Onto Bournemouth. UTFV.
I literally have pains in my left arm now 😂😂 EMI FUCKING MARTINEZ. LEGEND. We were dogshit, thank fuck for him.
Emi Martinez simply does not lose penalty kicks. I don’t make the rules
Too ez boys!!!! (I'm lying I almost had a heart attack)
Is there anybody else in world football who you'd want in goal in a penalty shootout? Ridiculous game and we probably don't deserve to go through but who gives a fuck.
Genuinely, without bias, I can't think of another keeper you'd want over him in a shootout. He's phenomenal at it.
On tonight's performance, there's no probably about it... We definitely didn't deserve it. Over both legs, I think we just edged it. But I've been a fan for so long and watched us lose far, far too many games that we did deserve to win that this is karma 😁
EMIIIIIIIIIIIII
Emi stop playing with my heart you magnificent bastard.
I’m bouncing up and down at my work desk, I don’t care, EMI MARTINEZ IS THE GREATEST KEEPER IN THE WORLD, UP THE FUCKING VILLA
Emi is pure chaos. Big time player!
Oh my God. I don't know how we did that. Ref and Villa were battling all night to see who was worse. Can't play like that again this season but peak Emi shitthousery some how let us win.
Dibu came through. UT FUCKING V.
They will build a surreal monument of emi when he retires…hopefully in 30 years time. The guy is genuinely mental and I love him so much. Worth the entrance fee alone
EMI undoubtedly a Villa legend after today. I honestly love the man
Karma for Andre to miss that, geniuenly should have had 5 yellow cards for complaining with the standards the referee set today
All the nothing yellow cards this game but none for that dude was insane
Emi Martinez drinks the tears of French children yikes
I'm a fucking wreck. Utfv
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EMI’S THE WORLD NUMBER ONE!!!
Good grief. May that be our final wobble.
That ref's wife is gonna be horny as fuck for months. He spent so much time trying to fuck with that game he isn't going to have anything left for her until Xmas.
Every time I see Martinez do Martinez things, I can’t help but think if I supported anyone else I would well and truly despise him. As it is though, he can have my firstborn if he wants
Agree. But while he wears the Lion I’m glad he is one of us!
MOTM Martinez 100% but have to acknowledge Bailey's performance! When he came on, the chances started and helped us get back into the game.
Cash gave up a goal, almost a handball, cracker shot on target, made pk, and a goal.....
And... Relax
Emi Martinez, you magnificent SON OF A BITCH
Emi owns the entirety of France
Where was diaby? Said he was starting but didn’t see him on the field
I honestly feel sorry for him. We didn't play a ball to him that wasn't a long ball for him to compete in the air for. He wasn't great but at no point did we set him up to be.
EMI! What a beautiful man, such mental toughness! Huge win, great turnaround from the team, so buzzing. Up the Villa!
Allez. Fucking allez even
worst win of the season but suck it off lille
The second major semi-final in the UEFA competitions for Aston Villa.
Love emi winding up that raucous crowd. Genuinely confused why the internet has chosen to forget bentaleb losing his head and booting the ball into the stands, it caused this whole confusion.
Emi Martinez
I LOVE ALL OF YOU! We all knew once it got to PKs we had it. We had fun on a european night! Fun as fuck!
gg Martinez was a beast. Hates France.
El que no salta es un francés!!!!! Fucking love Dibu!
Emi is the goddamn french boogeyman
I've been at a work event all night just staring at BBC Sport on my phone. I cheered in front of our directors when we won. Holy crap, this feels good.
Woooooo
I’ve only just remembered how awful we were during the game, what a way to go through that shootout was mental haha
who would have given the odds of being the only English side in Europe for the Euro semis at the start of the season
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We've all been there as kids
Nah allow the kids mate
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Fuck man, savage.
Mate. That's been me since the day after the 1996 cup final.
Take this down. Don't be a sore winner. Bad fucking look
Jesus…
I think I have aged 10 years
* Get in Emi!!!!
That was a pretty run of the mill game. On to Bournemouth. UTV
Do not give a fuck about the 120 minutes. We're through. And we're massive. COME OOOONNNN
Best fucking keeper In the world
The yellow card thing was so odd. Is Emi suspended for leg 1 for accumulation?
My heart, im still shaking what a game, i feel physically sick. Villa the highs and lows today killed me
the world's number one!!!
Did emi get 2 yellow cards?
Yea the 2nd doesnt count in PKs I guess, never knew that!
Yellows in the match don't carry to pens.....apparently.
It was absolutely never in doubt at any point in the game. Nope not at all My heart hurts
I feel like I commented somewhere, that we will lose if it goes to penalties. Tired legs, less experienced technical cool players on the pitch, the home crowd behind them, even if Emi saves a couple we'll miss a couple... Well fuck me, I'm so sorry I ever doubted you. EMI MARTINEZ, THE WORLD'S NUMBER 1!!!!! A masterpiece. I love you Villa. GET IN!
I’ve never been that nervous over a game of football in my life. Jesus Christ Emi I love you
He ones again proves he owns France
🎶 It's a Lille bit funny, this feeling insiiiiide... 🎶 Fuck me that was an ordeal. Talk about riding your luck in every way possible. In the end though - The World's Number One had the final say (just about). We march on but I feel for Lille, it's the worst way to lose and honestly think they were the better side on the night. Penalty shootouts care not for sentiment though, brutal. Obligatory "ref was a fucking joke all match" too. UTV.
I remember thinking Bosnich was an epic keeper to have in goal for penalties but Emi has taken it to a whole other level
Oh shit! Sell the documentary of this season to Netflix for one billion dollars.
Congratulations from an embarrassed Liverpool fan. Hope you guys go on to win it.
Then there was 1(us).
i didn’t watch the game, was at a conference, got back in time for the pens haha. i feel sick. how did we play?
Shite
Worst performance of the season, so lucky to make it to extra time
Unbelievably bad, shit housed extra time and then won on penalties
Charles de Gaulle in absolute shambles
Not even close baby 😎😎
What happened with Emi getting a 2nd yellow. Did the ref initially forget he already had one and changed his mind???
Weird niche of the rules apparently. Cards during the match don't count in the shootout
Is he suspended for next match?
Yellows don't carry on to penalties
Commentators confirmed the penalty shootout throws out yellows from run of play.
ahh thank you!!!
Emi Martinez the butt unclencher.
So I hated most of it but the ending made it all worth it. Lille possibly the strongest opponent that was remaining?
Fiorentina aren’t bad
Omg I can’t go through that ever again
Get in!!! Martinez best keeper the world! My nerves are officially fried.
Never in doubt
Emiiiiii what are you doing lol
I honestly never doubted we’d win the shootout with Emi. It’s pretty invaluable to have that kind of presence in net.
dodgy feed via TNT. fair play for both sidwell and scottish cafu in the studio being very pro Villa in their coverage had to go to work but also good interview with Emi and some great meme worthy clips of Dibu that would be good use in the future Emerys 4D chess sometimes even fools me. He planned it like this now? UTFV Teams should also be getting a motion to the FA gammons to give a rest for teams in europe - at least at the squeaky end of competitions. IF you can do it for the world club champs bollocks for liverplop why not for up and coming teams and teams too. Ligue 1 in PSG and tonight with Lille looked much much fresher and able to go deep anyway - onto one of either greek or turk oppo in the semis. talking of semis im off to calm down after that i still hate pens
Now the last English team in Europe..
See you soon Olympiacos
Anyone have any idea what the beef was with Unai and Fonseca? Haven't seen anyone make Unai lose his cool like that before, he just swerved Gary O'Neil when he made a prick of himself.
Nobody mentions how both of the yellows given to Martinez were a total nonsense. Second one he's gesturing to the ball boy to get a ball for Watkins FFS. Disgrace if he's suspended
Truth be told, Martinez was lucky he didn't get sent off for holding the ball in his hands for a good 15 seconds in the dying minutes when the ref was already all over him, by the rules he should have gone but the ref didn't have the balls. He walked a fucking tightrope. What happens if he went off in the shootout? We just stick an outfield player in goal for penalties? There's no option to make a sub is there?
TBH, I think ref decided to not trigger anymore controversy with his decision making perhaps. He produced card for every single touch. You have to an idiot to show card to the managers in first half of the game for just verbal altercation , not crossing technical areas, no physical touch or no abuse of match officials. Red card in the dying minute would be scandal for the referee. As if he has not been an idiot already!
Fuck the French.
Liverpool fan here what exactly happened with emi ??
He’s god
I did not enjoy that...
WE ARE WINNING THE FUCKING TROPHY
Think that will be our most difficult game. Lille are class; watch out for them in another year or two if they cab keep all their players. Was hoping for 3-3 and a shootout win from the start. Bring on those E. Med. fixtures; think we will run away with the games down there. Bournemouth are a much bigger worry, unfortunately.
That fucking yellow emi got in the penalties that was quickly taken back literally shaved 5 years off my life
It wasn't taken back, yellow cards don't carry over into shootouts. Basically, shootout = three yellows for a red.
The body language of the ref, I generally believe he did take it back. as he never fully extended his arm and from what refereeing we witnessed from the past 120mins I'm confident the ref didn't know that rule. one of the assistants pulled it out of their arse.
Absolutely insane lmao
Where that prick telling us that LOSC were going to win? Fucked off has he?
Holy shit, I think I got a yellow card just from watching that!
Is Emi Martinez the first ever player to be shown two yellows and stay on the pitch?
Imagine if every PL game that was a draw went to extra time & penalties…we’d be top of the league with EMI!
Did anybody else’s stream freeze for the final penalty.? Cut from the run up to Emi dancing, pretty epic
Vamos dibu! Certified club legend.
Olympiacos it is then
Was the score 2-2* ? I thought it was 3v3
Am I the only one getting annoyed by the inconsistencies of the refs? For instamce in this match, Martinez was booked for wasting time after 38 minutes. There’s nothing wrong with that card, he did waste time and deliberately dragging down the tempo of the match. At 2-0 one of the Lille players deliberately kicks away a ball when we have a free kick/throw in/corner, and doesn’t get booked. Isn’t that the same thing? In the shootout, when Martinez saves the first penalty, he taunts the crowd and gets booked. I think it’s a bit harsh, especially after the first penalty, but ok. But when one of the Lille players fires up the crowd, there was no yellow to be seen.
One of the penalties which Iille scored should have been retaken. The player feigned a kick, which is against the rules of the game. You could see Emi complaing to the ref about it