97' reasons to love Declan Rice
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
James McNicholas and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone, to reflect on a thriller at Kenilworth Road, 7 goals and a 97th minute winner thanks to Declan Rice.
It's now 6 wins on the bounce, and with Villa on the horizon Arsenal will be looking to keep up this momentum.
At one end, Gabriel Jesus was excellent, but at the other, Raya not so much.
The panel discuss what went wrong at the back, the physicality of the starting XI, and how Arteta's substitutions helped changed the game.
Plus, Mikel's yellow card and Saka's 200th game for the Arsenal.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | It's back to Odegaard. |
| 0:08.7 | It's Rice! Oh, it's brilliant! |
| 0:13.0 | Ask the last questions like seldom before this season. |
| 0:17.9 | And Declan Rice delivers a tiring answer with a last minute winner to break Luton hearts. |
| 0:26.0 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:33.6 | Well, hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:35.6 | This is Hand-Break-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic last night. You may be aware the Arsenal finally won away at Luton. It's taken us a good few years, but we got there. Well, we're going to talk about that game. Look, Ed DeVilla on Saturday here with Adrian Clark and James McNicholas. Morning. |
| 0:58.1 | Morning, Ian. Good morning. Good morning. James, you were at the game last night, |
| 1:04.6 | weren't you? I was indeed, yeah. Yeah. Have you come down now, by the way? Because you've had a big few nights, because by the way, congratulations, James, on the podcast, the FSA Award for you and Ars blog. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, no. |
| 1:13.6 | And yeah, it has been a big couple of nights, actually. |
| 1:16.8 | So I'm slightly feeling the effects of that, I think, this morning. |
| 1:20.6 | So I probably would be fair to say I have come down, but I was feeling pretty elated on the journey home last night. |
| 1:26.9 | It was pretty extraordinary evening all in all. |
| 1:31.5 | And yeah, a wonderful way to finish you. |
| 1:33.6 | I was amazing. Can I just get this off my chest as well, James? |
| 1:37.9 | I believe I infringed on the copyright of one of your well-known phrases last night on social media. |
| 1:46.2 | Let's do this. |
| 1:47.1 | Will you? Let's do this. |
| 1:48.2 | Let's do this. |
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