Arsenal move on in the FA Cup but urgent questions remain over the squad depth

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Joining Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal's FA Cup win over Oxford United are Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke.

Whilst the result eventually looked good on paper, the match showed that Arsenal seriously lack squad depth as Arteta was forced into starting the first choice front three (Saka, Nketiah, and Martinelli) and needed Xhaka and Zinchenko to make sure the Gunners were on the winning side. So what does that mean for Arsenal's title challenge? And more importantly, where are the reinforcements, specifically one Ukrainian forward?

We also discuss the impending arrival of "Tekkers Guru" to Arsenal's coaching staff and very nearly send Amy over the edge by discussing the 'i' word too much, injuries.

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.6	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.4	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:23.9	We're recording this on Tuesday morning after our 3-0 win over Oxford United in the FA Cup.
0:29.5	So we'll talk about that as well as our twice weekly discussion on when are we going to sign the Highlo Mudrick,
0:35.7	which I think maybe coming to conclusion.
0:39.4	We'll talk about that in a second.
0:40.7	We're joined by Adrian Clark and Amy Lawrence.
0:43.6	Morning.
0:44.2	Hello.
0:44.8	Hello, Stoney.
0:45.7	Morning.
0:46.4	I should say at this point, by the way,
0:48.3	that the comedians had a Christmas party last night,
0:51.7	which we do in January,
0:53.7	because we're all working in
0:54.7	December. So I'm doing this with really quite a quite astonishing hangover, I must say.
1:02.0	Sony, when you say the comedians, like who, who decides who's in this group? I'm just, you know,
1:08.1	how do you sign up? I'm not just curious.
1:13.4	How do you become good enough or funny enough?
1:17.0	No, it's like an interview and you sit there and they say,
1:19.7	where do you want to be a comedian and you have to come up with a funny answer?
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