Arsenal One Step Closer
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome into the latest edition of the SPNFC. |
| 0:07.0 | Kay Murray, Alejandro Moreno and Stevie Nicol here in the studio. |
| 0:10.0 | We're going to kick things off in England. |
| 0:12.0 | We've got lots of cup action for you and we got to see the second leg semi-final in the lead cup between Arsenal and Chelsea. |
| 0:19.0 | Arsenal bringing a lead into this game |
| 0:21.6 | and they won on the night as well. |
| 0:23.8 | Securing a 1-0 victory over Chelsea. |
| 0:26.5 | Kai Habert's the goal scorer |
| 0:27.8 | and that sends them through |
| 0:29.5 | to the final of the competition at Wembley Stadium. |
| 0:33.0 | Stuart Robson was watching for us today. |
| 0:35.0 | It's Arsenal booking their spot in the final. |
| 0:36.8 | What are your takeaways from this game, Stuart? Well, you just summed it up with the highlights package there. There wasn't too many highlights. It was a strange approach by both teams. I mean, Arsenal, I thought, would come out all guns blazing, but they didn't. They just kept the ball at the back and kept it in midfield. There was no forward runners. Chelsea came out thinking, well, we're going to keep it tight and we're going to play five at the back. We might press every so often and stop Arsenal scoring. So it was a stalemate in the first time. There was hardly any shots on goal. It was all played at a very slow tempo. It was all about possession football. There was not enough forward runs from either side, not enough forward passes. So it really drifted. And if anything, Chelsea had the better chances in the |
| 1:15.5 | second half without having one-on-one with a goalkeeper. They had a couple of moments when |
| 1:19.8 | the midfield player Fernandez got on the ball. He had three shots from sort of just outside the |
| 1:24.8 | box, which could have flashed into the top corner if he'd hit them well. But overall, it was a fairly tame game. Chelsea, I've seen them under Resenia, and there's a lot of talk, what a great job he's done. And he's done a decent, an okay job. But there's been times when there've been an absolute shambles in the first half of games. They were against West Ham, they were against Napoli. And then he's had to make changes, and they've played better. Today, they defended quite well. They stopped Arsenal really playing without Arsenal really posing too many threats. But they didn't have enough in the front areas. And they didn't show enough gar, they didn't show enough determination to go and get at Arsenal and get the win they needed. And he played, did some strange things. Delap played out on the right wing. A centre forward, we thought he'd play up front with Jal Pedro. He played out on the right wing. I have to say, it wasn't an enjoyable game to watch. And I have it's just scored when they were in the very last minute of the game. So not a great game, I wouldn't say. What did you think of it, Stevie? Well, it's a semi-final. And at the end of the day, |
| 2:21.8 | semifinals are not about playing silky soccer. It's about getting a result. And at the end of |
| 2:27.9 | the day, again, you have to say that Chelsea were the team that had to get the result, because |
| 2:32.5 | Arsenal had gotten themselves ahead from the first leg. So the onus really to get the result because Arsenal had gotten themselves |
| 2:34.3 | ahead from the first leg. So the onus really |
| 2:36.0 | is in Chelsea. And Arsenal |
| 2:38.3 | we've complained all season |
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