{"id":317601,"date":"2026-04-12T18:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=317601"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:19:12","slug":"why-emi-martinez-misses-aston-villa-game-against-nottingham-forest-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/why-emi-martinez-misses-aston-villa-game-against-nottingham-forest-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Emi Martinez misses Aston Villa game against Nottingham Forest | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emiliano Martinez missed Aston Villa\u2019s game vs Nottingham Forest (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aston Villa were dealt a blow ahead of Sunday\u2019s Premier League game against Nottingham Forest after Emiliano Martinez picked up an injury within the warm-up. <\/p>\n

The 33-year-old featured in Thursday night\u2019s Europa League win against Bologna but was unable to take his place within the starting line-up on the City ground and was replaced by Marco Bizot.<\/p>\n

In consequence, 21-year-old James Wright, who’s yet to make a senior appearance for Villa, was named on the substitutes\u2019 bench. <\/p>\n

Given Villa\u2019s continued involvement in Europe, Emery rotated his team again for the challenge of facing a Forest side who’re desperate to choose up points within the battle to beat the drop. <\/p>\n

\u2018Each match is different, each competition is different,\u2019 said the Villa boss. \u2018The players are ready they usually are specializing in how vital it’s for us.<\/p>\n

\u2018Constructing our team, with our structure is very important. Attempting to get one of the best with the starting players and the players on the bench. <\/p>\n

\u2018Victor Lindelof is playing brilliantly and Ross Barkley isn’t playing in Europe which is very important. <\/p>\n

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Vitor Lindelof has proved an excellent signing for Aston Villa (Credit: News Images LTD \/ Alamy Live News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018We attempt to set our structure on the sphere from minute one.\u2019<\/p>\n

Three points would have cemented Villa\u2019s position within the driving seat to secure Champions League qualification with Chelsea in motion against Manchester City in a while Sunday. <\/p>\n

Emery added; \u2018We’re in game 32 and it’s [about] three points today with the momentum that we have now. Keep going and attempting to focus in each moment.\u2019<\/p>\n

Forest\u2019s probabilities of staying up got an enormous boost prior to the international break in consequence of their comprehensive 3-0 win over Tottenham. <\/p>\n

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Ross Barkley began in midfield for Aston Villa (Credit: Alamy Live News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Villa, nevertheless, were more likely to represent an altogether different test in accordance with their manager, Vitor Pereira, who is a big admirer of the progress Emery\u2019s side have made in recent seasons. <\/p>\n

He said; \u2018When we have now quality and character, it gives you confidence in your side. <\/p>\n

\u2018We wish to be mentally and physically fresh to face Aston Villa at our greatest level.\u2019<\/p>\n


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Emiliano Martinez missed Aston Villa\u2019s game vs Nottingham Forest (Picture: Getty) Aston Villa were dealt a blow ahead of Sunday\u2019s Premier League game against Nottingham Forest after Emiliano Martinez picked up an injury within the warm-up. The 33-year-old featured in Thursday night\u2019s Europa League win against Bologna but was unable to take his place within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[671,36945,5479,5636,585,16148,7491,5635,672],"class_list":["post-317601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-aston","tag-emi","tag-football","tag-forest","tag-game","tag-martinez","tag-misses","tag-nottingham","tag-villa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317604,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317601\/revisions\/317604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}