Arsenal Reserve Goalkeeper Claims Greater Than Bernd Leno

Arsenal reserve goalkeeper, Emiliano Martinez, started to get hot just being a coating for Bernd Leno all this time. He was eager to displace the German goalkeeper's position as Unai Emery's first choice.

Since gathering to Arsenal in 2010, Emiliano Martinez actually forever became the second choice, or even the third. He was forever defeated with reliable Gunners goalkeepers like Wojciech Szczesny, Lukasz Fabianski, Manuel Almunia, David Ospina, Petr Cech, until now Bernd Leno.

However, during seeing the appearance of Bernd Leno, the Argentine goalkeeper was confident of being able to seize the position of the main goalkeeper. In fact he stressed that he was more powerful than the former Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper.

"Leno is more involved in competitive matches than I am, but in terms of quality I'm on par with him. I could even say I'm better than him. My goal is to penetrate the Argentine national team. I have quality and I just need more minutes to play, "Martinez said as reported by the Daily Mail, Friday (09/13/2019).

"I want minutes to play, pursue a good season together, become Arsenal's number one goalkeeper, and fight for the opportunity to appear in the Copa America 2020 with Argentina," he added.

27 year old goalkeeper. it was loaned several times to other clubs in order to get more minutes to play. The following season he pursued the era of loan to the Championship Division club, Reading. There he performed 18 times.

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