Former Arsenal hero Martin Keown described Emi Martinez’s own goal that handed the Gunners the winning goal against Aston Villa as “ironic”.
The goalkeeper saw Jorginho’s injury-time effort hit the crossbar and bounce over the line off his head in Arsenal’s entertaining 4-2 win at Villa Park on Saturday.
Gunners fans were left fed up by their ex-player’s antics before the matchwinner as Martinez was booked for time wasting, something he was accused of on several occasions.
The two incidents left pundit Keown chuckling in his post-match analysis.
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“I thought it was ironic, I seem to have spent a whole hour watching him waste time,” he told BT Sport.
“Look, he was a great player for Arsenal and maybe shouldn’t have gone.
“It’s really ironic that he should waste that amount of time and then it goes in off his head - but that can happen.”
Martinez was then caught out for Arsenal’s fourth goal as he went up for a 97th-minute corner, only for the Gunners to clear and send Gabriel Martinelli through to score into an empty net.
