Arsenal humble City and did Liverpool get lucky?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Arsenal stayed humble and thrashed Man City. Did the result say more about a dominant Arsenal performance or a fragile aging Manchester City team? Myles Lewis-Skelly shone as a left back which made Gregor Robertson wonder if old fashioned left backs exist anymore?

Spurs put in a defensively solid performance to win at Brentford so, has Ange finally changed his tactics? Liverpool showed their title credentials again by beating in form Bournemouth; would it be unfair to call them lucky?

Lastly, Moyes works his magic at Everton, Amorim in a mess and Rashford to Villa - mad or a master stroke?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. Well, it was a weekend for
0:09.0	silencing the doubters, with some teams and players making a fair bit of noise about it. Arsenal
0:14.0	remind Manchester City and Erling Harland to stay humble. Nottingham Forest show that they can still
0:18.4	be shining near the top of the table. Liverpool do what all the other big teams fail to do by beating Bournemouth.
0:24.2	Southampton finally pick up a victory and even Tottenham win away and with a clean sheet.
0:29.9	Just a shame Manchester United let down this intro, but hey, it's always good for some doubts to remain listeners.
0:35.5	On today's show, we'll also discuss some of the big deals at the end of the January
0:38.4	transfer window.
0:39.4	And joining me, Tom Clark, for all of that, we have the senior sports writer and Sunday
0:42.6	Times columnist Alison Rudd.
0:44.3	The reporter and European football expert Tom Ornutt and the former defender turned journalist Gregor
0:48.3	Robertson is here, but Tom Allnut's not here.
0:50.9	He is going to be here at some point, but he's not here at the minute. Let down by trains. He's going to burst through the door any minute now, desperate to tell us all about Arsenal against Man City.
1:00.0	But for now, I'm just going to have to make do with you two. Is that all right?
1:02.0	Yeah, go on. Let's crack on. Yeah, let's go. the victory, what it says about Arsenal's hopes and desires to stay with Liverpool at the top of the table?
1:12.2	Well, it felt vital.
1:14.2	In previewing this game, I said that City and Arsenal were the Schroding a cat of title contenders,
1:22.2	as in they were both in the title race and both not in the title race at the same time.
1:26.9	And a Arsenal fan tweeted
1:29.7	me, Arsenal's Schrodinger's cat is meowing, which I thought was quite clever. I need a little
1:35.7	like Bell, don't I for Alison? Analogies on a Monday. You're getting earlier at bringing them in.
1:40.5	The Anjin one a few weeks ago was very quick. This is even quicker. Straight in. Wonderful stuff.
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