Aston Villa's Martinez comes closer to clean sheet mark | OneFootball

Aston Villa keeper Emiliano Martínez is a top player in the world at his position. While many AVFC fans were watching England in Thomas Tuchel's first match in charge, Argentina played Uruguay. Their World Cup qualification campaign is in secure hands with Dibu in between the posts.

The 50th cap his country saw the GK come closer to passing a significant milestone. While many focused on Martinez's celebration after the Thiago Almada goal, the goalie added another clean sheet to his tally.

This marks the 36th time the opposition has failed to get one past the Aston Villa keeper while playing for Argentina. By comparison, Sergio Romero has nearly double the appearances at the international level and sits at 43 clean sheets.

The Villa ace was called upon a couple of times to intervene, but ultimately, nothing truly troubled him. Similar to Almada's effort, it usually takes something truly special to beat Martinez. Argentina will face Brazil next on Tuesday. It's safe to say that he will likely be under more duress in that fixture.

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He is not close enough to get too excited about him seizing the record. La Albiceleste are slated to face Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador next on their path to the North American World Cup. In what can be an open and entertaining style of CONMEBOL play, it's tough to predict where his next seven clean sheets could come from.

That being said, Martinez is on a strong roster, and a lot of games are bound to play out similarly without asking too much of him. That being said, everyone knows that even when the attack gets through, there aren't too many better suited to prevent the ball from hitting the back of the net than the Aston Villa No. 1.