Back to the Premier League Newsfeed

'I don't think he tried to injure him': Neal Maupay did not intend to hurt Bernd Leno, according to Arsenal's back-up goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez - after Brighton striker was criticised for his role in serious knee injury

Arsenal goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez has jumped to the defence of Brighton's Neal Maupay and insists he did not deliberately cause Bernd Leno a serious knee injury.

Seagulls striker Maupay has been criticised by some for his role in Leno's injury - not least by the goalkeeper himself who sat up from his stretcher on the way off the pitch to offer some choice words to his opponent.

But Maupay has now received some backing from an unlikely source, after Leno's team-mate - and Arsenal's replacement keeper - Martinez said he didn't mean it.