EMI MARTINEZ produced a save to stunning that even Sky Sports had no idea where the ball ended up.
Nottingham Forest fans inside the City Ground and watching their clash against Aston Villa on TV thought their side had gone in front on the hour mark.
ReutersEmi Martinez produced a stunning save at the City Ground[/caption]
Sky SportsHe somehow kept the ball out[/caption]
Sky SportsThe Argentine ended up over the line but crucially the ball stayed in[/caption]
Sky SportsThe ball stayed in play but was lost by the Sky cameras[/caption]
But it turned out Martinez had produced a moment of sheer genius to deny Nikola Milenkovic from heading in.
And it was so good that the Sky Sports cameras could not work out what was going on as the ball went out of shot – even though it was still in play.
Milenkovic headed a corner goalwards and looked for all the world to have scored.
But bizarrely the net did not ripple.
And it was not until the replays were shown that fans and commentators realised what had actually happened.
Martinez had somehow managed to spin around and claw the ball back from on the line and pull it back into the six-yard box before it was hoofed away by a Villa defender.
It looks as though it has gone out for a corner and the camera stays on the cluster of players in the penalty area.
Weirdly, though, the ball stayed in play near the corner flag – but the Sky operators lost track of it – before the players carried on and the yellow ball suddenly came back into the frame from a cross.
Just moments after Martinez’s magic stop, Villa broke the deadlock at the other end.
Jhon Duran headed in emphatically before another fine save from Martinez.
But all the talk on social media was about the two-time world’s best goalkeeper’s heroics.
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