Gab & Juls Show: Are Arsenal really the best team in the league?
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Jan Delmande for Leipzig, the classicker in Germany. The Grand Derby. La Minia Malz hat-trick. Manu Kone's pass. I am overwhelmed and there's probably something I'm forgetting. But we're going to start with the Premier League. We're going to start in North London. Arsenal beating Chelsea 2-1. They remain five points clear. They've played an extra game over Manchester City, and of course the head-to-head is coming up. It doesn't matter how you get the game done. As a neutral, this was not a fun watch, especially for a neutral like me who does not like Royal Rumbles at every corner kick. Yeah, it was a big old school fight, really a massive battle physically, especially between two teams that are very, very good physically to start with, both of them, who are very good on set pieces as well.
And when there's not much between the two teams where the two tactics or the two game plans kind of cancel each other out, then I guess you can win it on a set piece. You can win it on small margins. We've repeated that so much this season. But that was the case of it. I like the game plan from Chelsea. I like what Rossignol tried to do and did. The fact that they out... played in terms of passes certainly and possession, Arsenal at the Emirates is not an easy thing to do. And I know in the end of the day, they didn't win. But I much prefer that than what we saw in the second leg of the League Cup semi-final, for example, every single day, because I think there's a lot of things that worked really well from a Chelsea point of view.
In the end, the character that Arsenal showed, the strength that they showed as well, and the pressure, because they had to respond to City who won the day before, I think was really good as well. you say it's not an easy thing to do uh it's a lot easier when arsenal basically decide at home that they're going to just rely on being tighter they're not maybe martin odegaard unavailable the way he's played of late but it seems to me like their their game plan was like all right you have the ball we're going to defend we'll be comfortable we'll hit you on the counter i think chelsea made them play like that it was never the game plan for arsenal to leave the ball to sit to chelsea at the emirates so they were just bad on the ball yeah yeah yeah
Their pass accuracy is not very good for this game. Yeah, I think Chelsea had a really good game plan. I don't know, when I see AZ shooting from the halfway line, when I see searching balls. I guess I was so put off by this game because I don't like all the grabbing and stuff on corners. And this is both teams. And look, I'm not blaming Rocinho Arteta in any way, shape, or form. You do what the referee allows. But at some point, this is not entertaining. I would go so far as to say it's not really football when you've got... When you have, for example, Declan Rice on Jarrell Hato. Again, not Rice's fault. The referee allows this stuff. But you have this guy in a bear hug. And on top of that, which is even more annoying, they realize it because they go and they check to see if the ball comes off his arm.
Like, oh, no, it couldn't be an intentional handball because he was having contact with a Chelsea player. He was having contact. He was bear-hugging him, which... unless the laws of the game have changed, should be a foul if you choose to call them.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:03
2
What did Arsenal do in their recent match against Chelsea?
4:03–5:06
3
How are Arsenal's set pieces affecting their performance?
5:06–8:46
4
What were the key moments in the Arsenal vs Chelsea game?
8:46–11:32
5
How did Chelsea's game plan impact Arsenal's strategy?
11:32–15:23
6
What are the implications of Arsenal's reliance on set pieces?
15:23–1:00:28
7
How do the recent performances of other teams affect Arsenal's title chances?
1:00:28–1:02:45
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