Aston Villa 2-4 Arsenal: Unai Emery called out Emiliano Martinez after game | OneFootball

Aston Villa came ever so close to picking up points against Arsenal on Saturday afternoon.

Villa led twice in the match but twice were pegged back.

The game was level going into stoppage-time but the Gunners scored two late goals to snatch all three points.

Arsenal took the lead for the first time in the match when Jorginho's long-range strike cannoned off the bar, hit the unfortunate Emiliano Martinez in the back of the head and crept over the line.

Villa were given a last-gasp corner and Martinez went forward to try and salvage a point for his side.

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That proved to be a poor decision as Arsenal broke and Gabriel Martinelli ended up tapping the ball into an empty net.

Unai Emery calls out Emiliano Martinez after Aston Villa 2-4 Arsenal

Unai Emery was not happy at all with his goalkeeper after the final whistle.

The Villa boss called out the Argentine in his post-match interview.

Emery was upset that Martinez defied his orders to go up for Villa's corner in the final moments. His decision led to Martinelli's goal.

“I have never told my goalkeeper to go and score one goal in the 90th minute, because maybe – and I don’t know the data – maybe one goal in 100, maybe 20 times they [the opponents] are doing a counter transition and they are scoring 10 goals," he told BT Sport, per the Mirror.

"Today, it happened. And for me it’s not being very smart, not being very consistent in how we want to play, how we want to compete. We can play, we can lose 2-3, but 2-4? It’s not a good result.”

He added to BBC Sport: "Today I am very disappointed and it is embarrassing for me, the last goal. Because I never told my goalkeeper to go to a corner to score a goal. It is not the spirit, we have to keep our mind clear and smart.

"We have to progress in the way that we are working. We have to take confidence of course, but sometimes making mistakes you have to improve. We were very happy with how the team worked and prepared for the match.

"But then on the pitch after scoring first we were thinking when will the match finish. You have to play 90 minutes. I never told my goalkeeper to do it. But today he decided it was his decision.

"He was not doing something about my decision because I didn't tell him, but now he knows. He knows now."

Aston Villa have now lost three consecutive games in the Premier League and remain in 11th. Their next game comes against Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday February 25.