Emiliano Martinez kept a clean sheet for Aston Villa in their 2-0 win vs. Brighton as Emiliano Buendia was an unused substitute and Alexis Mac Allister started the match.

Martinez has now kept seven clean sheets for Aston Villa in the Premier League this season. This was the Argentine’s first time not letting in a goal in a Premier League match since January 22 in a 1-0 win vs. Everton.

Buendia was part of the team but did not play for Aston Villa as he was kept on the bench. The 25 year old has not played an entire 90 minutes since the win against Everton last month.

Alexis Mac Allister started for Brighton and played the entire 90 minutes. He has become a regular starter for Brighton, playing the full match in their last three games and playing the full 90 in seven of their last eight matches.

Alejandro Papu Gomez, Marcos Acuña, Gonzalo Montiel, Lucas Ocampos and Erik Lamela will play West Ham in the Europa League.

There are 13 Argentine players remaining in the Europa League with at least one getting eliminated. Of the eight matches for the Round of 16, two of them will pit Argentine against Argentine.

From those 13 players, only one of them has lifted the Europa League trophy. Lucas Ocampos won it with Sevilla back in the 2019-2020 season. Here are the matches for the Round of 16 which begins next month:

Rangers vs. Red Star Belgrade

Braga vs. Monaco

FC Porto (Agustín Marchesín) vs. Lyon

Atalanta (Juan Musso, José Luis Palomino) vs. Bayer Leverkusen (Exequiel Palacios, Lucas Alario)

Sevilla (Marcos Acuña, Gonzalo Montiel, Alejandro Papu Gómez, Lucas Ocampos, Erik Lamela) vs. West Ham United (Manuel Lanzini)

FC Barcelona vs. Galatasaray

RB Leipzig vs. Spartak Moscow

Real Betis (German Pezzella, Guido Rodríguez) vs. Eintracht Frankfurt

The first and second leg will take place on March 10 and March 17, before the South American World Cup qualifiers.

Argentina national team legend Mario Kempes spoke about the national team, Lionel Messi and Paulo Dybala.

Mario Kempes was part of the Argentina team which won the 1978 FIFA World Cup. A legendary striker not only for Argentina but for Valencia, he spoke with Fuera de Control about the national team. Here is what he had to say:

“Scaloni has formed a very good Argentina national team with practically all new faces with a lot of skill and with people coming from abroad and from big teams. I see a very good Argentina national team with a lot of enthusiasm and with very clear ideas. This makes me very confident. I believe in the national team, we will see what happens.”

Kempes also commented on Lionel Messi:

“This national team and Scaloni showed that without Messi, the players have their own personalities. But with Messi, it’s always a more than important help.

“Messi will always be Messi, he will never be down or lack morale. He is very competitive and even more so with Argentina.”

Regarding Paulo Dybala with the national team:

“Hopefully Dybala will be at the World Cup because he deserves it, he has to be more confident. At Juventus, I see him more loose and with the national team he appears a little tied up. He has to believe that he is a great player and show it on the pitch.”