Arsecast Extra Episode 670 - 08.12.2025

Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast

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Sports & Recreation, Football, Premier League, Arsenal, Gunners, Soccer, Sports, Sport

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we look back at Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa, our first loss in 18 games. We chat about the team selection, the goal we conceded and how much that contributed to Mikel Arteta making half-time substitutions. Leandro Trossard drew us level off the bench, but when it looked like a point would do for both sides, Villa won it with the last kick of the game. We analyse the way that goal went in and what we might have done better, whether we spurned a good chance to win it ourselves late on, and reflect on how the defeat has opened up the title race with our gap at the top down to 2 points. Then we answer listener questions about rotating in midweek, Christian Norgaard, Viktor Gyokeres, Gabriel Jesus, why the reaction to the Villa game felt so intense, and lots more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another Arscast Extra as always, with James from GunnerBlog James.
0:18.8	Good morning to you.
0:20.9	Morning, Andrew. How are you?
0:24.0	I'm okay. Like I just said to you, I pulled up the blind in my office. I've been living in a cave of
0:29.6	darkness since Saturday. Lunchtime. I can see the sun. The sky is blue. But it means nothing
0:36.8	to me.
0:41.9	Yeah, yeah, I hear you.
0:45.7	It's a strange and unfamiliar world we're in right now.
0:47.5	Well, you know, it is, isn't it? You know, because it's the first time in 18 games that we're having to talk about Arsenal losing, a defeat for the first time since the game against Liverpool, which was in, what, late August, early September?
1:01.9	Yeah.
1:02.7	So, yeah, it's not, you know, it's not the, it's not the usual routine for us or for the listeners or for anybody associated with Arsenal.
1:12.1	31st of August it was.
1:14.3	Right.
1:15.4	And if you thought an 83rd minute winner was cruel.
1:20.7	Oh.
1:21.3	You know, Dominic Sobuzlai really had to hold Emmy Buendia's beer on that one.
1:29.4	Yeah,
1:30.1	pretty cruel way
1:31.1	to lose a football
1:31.7	match.
1:33.0	Yes.
1:33.3	And those
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