Manchester City have Arsenal in their sights – Football Weekly
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Oh, Arsenal, is it even worth getting close if it's going to end in agony? Fans streaming out before full-time, boos at the end and they were still nine points clear at the top at the time, but it felt bad and it was bad. Bournemouth were excellent. It opened the door for City, who broke down Chelsea in the second half and ran away with it at the bridge. We have league at the bottom. Oh, Spurs. They weren't terrible. They weren't good. They were a little unlucky. That Mukiela deflected goal. Everyone could see it going in for hours, but no one could do anything about it. They were already in the relegation zone after West Ham beat Wolves 4-0 on Friday night. And then Forrest got a crucial point at home to Villa.
Some real couldn't-hit-a-barn-door stuff from Unai Emery's men in the second half. a morale-boosting win for Liverpool, a morale-sapping defeat for Newcastle too, all manner of excitement in the EFL and in the fit bar, and Barry ran a half-marathon. Wild times we are living in. All that plus your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly.
On the panel today, Seb Hutchinson, welcome. Hello, Max. Hello, Jacob Steinberg. Hello. And the hero of the hour, Barry Glendening. How are you feeling? I'm in a world of pain, Max.
Everything from the waist down hurts. Even the soles of my feet hurt. And it took, I'm not exaggerating, it took me 10 minutes to lever myself out of bed and walk down the stairs this morning. But unlike my friend Gavin, whose fault it is I'm in this mess, he did it with me yesterday as well. And he had to climb a crane this morning for work because he forgot to take the day off.
Oh, man alive. Okay, anyway, we'll get to that. More importantly, let's begin at the top of the Premier League. Arsenal 1, Bournemouth 2, Carl on Blue Sky says, is quad bottle a word? Matthew, I've not known the country this united in a long time. Every weekend, wanting both North London teams to lose every week for totally different reasons. And Candid says, who could have imagined two years ago that Baz would have a more impressive heat map over the weekend than Declan Rice and Moses Caicedo? Well, we'll get to Caicedo, but with credit to Bournemouth, and we will get to that. Seb, it is always easy to be wise after the event, right? So maybe that's where this is coming from. But from the moment this game started, it felt like this sort of air of inevitability that Arsenal weren't going to do it.
Well, I'll show wisdom from, I think, maybe match day 11 or 12 when I was on this pod and we said, is it too early? And we were talking about Arsenal. I said, Arsenal defensively look strong, but going forward, they've got real problems in the structure of their attacks. And as the season's gone on, that has basically come to the fore and causing them real problems because the set pieces have been so important for them. But when it comes to general play, they don't look like a side who are going to score goals against most teams now. If you go back and look at their performances in recent months, when have they truly sparkled in an attacking sense? And throughout the season, Manchester City have shown that, even when they've stuttered along the way in terms of the results, they've always looked like a side who are going to score against teams.
And now, from the moment the League Cup final was the moment where Man City pinned them in and they had no way of getting out. And I think teams of now, at this point of the season, teams like Bournemouth, who are playing with a sense of freedom, they are in the European mix themselves. I mean, we can apply this idea that they're on the beach. They're not on the beach at all. I mean, they literally are. But in the football sense, they're not on the beach. And so they had something to get out of this game for sure. they deserve this win? And that's the scary thing from an Arsenal point of view. You look at it and think, well, can they even win a game towards the back end of this season?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–8:57
2
Why did Arsenal lose to Bournemouth and what does it reveal about their attack?
8:57–26:45
3
How much is Odegaard’s absence affecting Arsenal’s creativity and structure?
26:45–35:33
4
Are Arsenal players and fans suffering from anxiety and how is Arteta contributing?
35:33–56:21
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