Gab & Juls Show: Is there a title race in the Premier League?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gab, he's Jules. Great skies over West London, but that's okay because we're here to brighten things up for you. What a weekend it was. Paris Saint-Germain back on top in Ligue 1. Inter extend their lead in Serie A. Real Madrid, big win away to Vieira. Not something to be taken for granted and in the Premier League. We say, ¿Habemos Premier? ¿Hay Premier? I don't know. Because Arsenal's lead down to four-point city, and then probably Villa and Newcastle both win. Villa joined second in the table. How about that, Unai Emery? Let's go with the big one. Arsenal beaten by Manchester United 3-2. You can look at this and say the three United goals... Two of them were improbable worldies. Guy shoots from a million yards out.
You know, talented players, but low probability. The other one was a gift. Nothing to see here. It's fine. Arsenal scored two goals. And they were just unlucky. Is that reductive? A little bit, but it's also true. Even Michael Carrick admitted it, Mikel Arteta, everybody. I was at the game, everybody in the stadium could see it. It was obvious outside of that. There's a couple of good transitions from Manchester United in the first half. But the first half hour, the first 30 minutes until the own goal by Martinez... There was just one team on the pitch. Arsenal were almost perfect in the way they defended with the ball in terms of control. They didn't create that much apart from the header from Zubi Mendy, but they were great.
And then it looked like they stopped playing or suddenly it looked like United finally got into the game with more intensity, with the block slightly higher. and try to make something happen. And they got lucky with the Zubi Mendy mistake, of course, but before that there was a Saliba mistake that Bruno almost took advantage of. That was really bad. I think he didn't know he was there, hadn't scanned, didn't know, thought there was nobody that Raya would come out, but Raya obviously didn't come out for reasons that, because Bruno was there. So unusual for Arsenal to be a bit sloppy after they took the lead, because so far this season, in the 24 games where they took the lead, yeah, they always won.
And I think that goal from Mbombo can change the dynamic for the second half, of course.
What happened in the Premier League match between Manchester United and Arsenal?
Arteta said something to the effect of it's a game of small margins and the way we played made the margins even smaller, which I took to mean on probability Arsenal still should have won this game, but they hurt themselves and they gave United a bigger probability of winning. I wonder about United, though, because I was really impressed. Look, it's his second game. I mean, he's had, what, four or five training sessions? Yeah. I was really impressed by the fact that there's a lightness to the way United play. And this goes beyond, I think, just changing managers because, of course, it's not like Amarim left yesterday. You had the Darren Fletcher period in between. I was struck by the fact that he kept the same 11, which means leaving Sesko and Kunya on the bench.
That's like $150-odd million worth of strikers that arrived just six months ago. So clearly, this setup is not a long-term solution. When Carrick thinks, he's thinking, I need to integrate these guys into my starting lineup. But for this game, it was the right call. Unshackling Dorgoo, using his pace. But you're not going to change the team that beat Manchester City. It'd be stupid from him. Same team, same style of play, same game plan. And it worked the same way, really. Would it be stupid? Because you're playing. I mean, City and Arsenal are both good teams. They play a very different brand of football, right? And it's also different being at home and being away. Yeah, but that was the only difference, being at home or away.
But it makes a lot of sense for him to keep the same team and play the same way. That's exactly what he did. And to be fair, their defensive structure was as good against Arsenal away than it was at home to City the week before. I was really impressed.
How did Arsenal's performance affect the title race?
OK, we can say they scored three goals from an unexpected goal of 0.7.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–2:17
2
What happened in the Premier League match between Manchester United and Arsenal?
2:17–3:55
3
How did Arsenal's performance affect the title race?
3:55–8:10
4
What were the standout moments from Kylian Mbappe's game?
8:10–15:13
5
What does Endrick's hat trick mean for Ligue 1?
15:13–18:36
6
Why is Andy Robertson's potential move to Tottenham significant?
18:36–24:14
7
What are the implications of Manchester City and Aston Villa's standings?
24:14–34:20
8
How does the current Premier League season compare to previous ones?
34:20–1:03:28
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