{"id":27867,"date":"2024-04-18T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/europa-conference-league-why-emi-martinez-wasnt-sent-off-after-second-yellow\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T21:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:04:54","slug":"europa-conference-league-why-emi-martinez-wasnt-sent-off-after-second-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/europa-conference-league-why-emi-martinez-wasnt-sent-off-after-second-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa Conference League: Why Emi Martinez wasn\u2019t sent off after second yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There was confusion as Aston Villa goalkeeper, Emi Martinez, was not sent off after receiving a second yellow card in their Europa Conference League quarter-final second leg against Lille Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez had earlier been booked for time wasting during normal time and was booked again during the penalty shoot-out, as the tie ended 3-3 on aggregate after 120 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Argentine stopper stayed on and made two saves as Villa progressed into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Football transfer expert, Fabrizio Romano, has now explained the rule that allowed Martinez to continue.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted: \u201cDibu Mart\u00ednez did it again. Two penalties saved, shushing the crowd in France (!) and helping Aston Villa to enter the semi finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMart\u00ednez was also booked in the first half then he got a second yellow card in the penalty shootout\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026but he wasn\u2019t sent off as \u201cplayer who receives yellow card during the match  penalties is NOT sent off\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Europa Conference League: Why Emi Martinez wasn\u2019t sent off after second yellow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was confusion as Aston Villa goalkeeper, Emi Martinez, was not sent off after receiving a second yellow card in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14094,14095,15,160],"tags":[4120,14096,2757,1145,8527,180,201],"class_list":["post-27867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emi-martinez","category-europa-conference-league","category-news","category-sport","tag-conference","tag-emi","tag-europa","tag-league","tag-martinez","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}