Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello everyone and welcome into our ESPN FC studios for the latest edition of the show. I'm Alexis Younes alongside Xhaka Hislop. We're going to kick things off in the Premier League because on Thursday it was an enticing matchup with the league leaders Arsenal facing off against the Premier League champions Liverpool but it ended in a nil-nil stalemate.
This is a look at what the English papers had to say. Sigh of the storm. Ooh, the battle of the guns did not turn out to be the blockbuster we expected. This is how it affected the table. Not that much. Arsenal still flying clear at the top of the table, six points ahead of Manchester City and Aston Villa. Let's welcome in our Julien Laurons for this one.
Jules, we know how close you are with Arsenal after the nil-nil draw with Liverpool. Are you cool with that result?
I was at the game, Alexis, and to be fair, I agree with some of the headlines that we've just showed. It was not the most entertaining game. Usually on the show, we say it was very tactical, which it was. It was cagey. You have to look at the Liverpool game plan, obviously, going into this game.
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Chapter 2: How did Arsenal and Liverpool's match affect the Premier League standings?
But I thought Arsenal have grown since that game, and you can make the argument that Liverpool have regressed. And now, in London, I thought this was Arsenal's game to win. Especially when you see... earlier in the weekend, both City draw and Aston Villa draw, you think that this is an opportunity for Arsenal.
So to see the game kind of play out as dully as it did, and to Juju's point, you kind of understand or you want to sympathise with Liverpool's approach in that I don't think Liverpool are anywhere near as good a football team as Arsenal. I would have loved to see more from Arsenal in that regard, given everything at stake. Had they won three points...
I think we'd all be kind of declaring the title race over. No, it still feels as though there's an opportunity. Arsenal still asked us to lose, but it feels as though there's an opportunity for City and quite possibly still for Villa. So that for me was a little bit of a disappointment.
Had it played out differently, had Arsenal drawn on Friday night, let's say, and then you see City and Villa draw later on in the weekend, it feels a whole lot differently than it does right now. I just feel it's... a real opportunity dropped by Arsenal. And psychologically, that would have been a tough pill for Arteta to swallow.
Jules, the boys on the show yesterday were pretty critical of Jokeres and wanted to see more from him, but also our Frank Leboeuf said that, look, Arsenal just don't set up to really help a striker like him. What did you make of his performance?
Yeah, I agree, I think, with what the boys said last night. I've been watching him a lot this season, we saw him a lot last season. I think it's quite difficult to adapt to the Premier League when you come from the Portuguese league. No offence to Sporting, they were a great team under Amorim, especially in the last 18 months that he worked with Gukeres. He did an amazing job.
Gukeres scored a lot of goals. But when in Portugal, you've got the time to take your first touch, for example, towards the goal and then find a shot that beats the keeper. In England, we've often seen Gukeres... By the time he takes the shot, the centre-back has come across or the goalkeeper makes that save. It's harder to score here than it is in Portugal, obviously.
And I think sometimes you also realise that this Arsenal team now has been built under Mikel Arteta without a traditional number nine. We said it often on the show. I'm not trying to defend your character because I think he still should do more. Yesterday, there's a couple of moments where...
It's not a clear run that he makes, there's space there either on the half space or in behind and he doesn't really make the run like he should do. However, it is true that this team has played more than not with the fourth number nine, whether that's Havertz, whether that's Gabriel Jesus, that play very differently to the number nine really more traditional that Gokeres is.
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