Damien Delaney

yeah just take it down nah uh let's wait till we get there for that debate um before you go then arsenal damien oh yeah geez that was um i was interested in a lot of um a lot of talking points there um yeah listen they they they're a team that have gone through the season um

in a defensive mode and they've just relied on their structure and the moments that go their way and they have gone their way all year but I think that in a cup final you have to go and win a cup final it very rarely comes to you unless you're playing a team that's a lesser team than you but like Man City took the game to Arsenal and they just had no answer they got taken apart in the wide areas in Capier and Ben White by Doku and

And Simeone, they got destroyed in the middle of the midfield, which I don't think I would ever say would have managed a midfield that contained, you know, a half-fit Rodri and a Bernardo Silva that's on the way out.

They could not get any service.

They could not turn the tide.

And I think it's going to be a huge blow to Arsenal's kind of bubble of infallibility that they'd built up that, you know, nobody can bully us.

Nobody can outrun us.

You know, we're good on set plays and we can just show up like the schoolyard bullies and do what we want to do.

The schoolyard bully's got a bloody nose now and it's going to be interesting to see how they react because once that kind of veil of invincibility of what they probably felt they had is now gone, especially the most important time of the season.

I still think they will go on and win the league.

I still think they'll get enough on it.

But again, I just think that...

it's a negative mindset.

It's on the back foot mindset.

It's like, you know, the game will come to us as opposed to us going and getting it.

You can get away with that in November when it's a league game against Brighton and a draw doesn't hurt and there's no real pressure on it.

But when you get to the crunch, second half of a cup final and Man City got the tide going in their direction, it was stunning how Arsenal could not wrestle control that game back.

Yeah.

It's a different mindset.

It's a different mindset.