Arsenal lose top spot and now urgently need a result

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ian Stone is joined by Art de Roche and James McNicholas to look back on Arsenal's home defeat to Man City but to look ahead to how they can turn things around.

The panel analyse where Arsenal weren't able to take a grip on the game when they looked like the better team at the break, talk about the shortcomings within in the squad, and whether Arteta's tactical choices paid off.

And with Aston Villa right around the corner there needs to be a shift in narrative from four matches without a win, two goals scored and now in second place, what can Arsenal do to regain momentum.

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:17.6	Hello, I'm Ian Stone, and this is Handbreak-off, Off the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:22.8	We're going to be discussing the horrible 3-1 defeat at home to Manchester City and as we've got Una
0:28.4	Emery's Aston Villa at Villa Park in a little over 48 hours, ridiculous as that may seem,
0:34.2	we'll discuss some possible strategies for steadying the ship.
0:38.2	We're joined this morning by James McNiculus and Art de Roche.
0:42.0	Morning.
0:42.6	Good morning.
0:43.6	Morning.
0:44.2	Morning, guys.
0:45.2	Now, I think we can all agree that the pressure is building up.
0:48.1	So what we thought we do before we start talking about the game, we need some coping with
0:51.5	pressure tips.
0:52.6	We need them snappy and more importantly
0:54.9	legal. I'm sure smoking all sorts of illegal substances might lower your stress levels,
0:59.4	but we can hardly recommend that on this podcast. Art, what are you got for us?
1:03.8	So I was thinking about mine, and I'm not sure it's particularly healthy because I just
1:09.4	detach emotionally from everything.
1:12.0	Like even just before we started recording, so my mom was at work during the game and
1:17.6	she only saw the score when she got back when I was asleep.
1:20.7	And she tried to talk to me about it.
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