Arsenal Women Arsecast 124: Champions League final preview
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, in part 1, Tim and Jamie preview the game from an Arsenal perspective. Should Renee Slegers entertain changes to her preferred personnel or even formation? How can Arsenal resist Barca’s quality and expose some of their weaknesses. Tim and Jamie also reflect on some of their favourite moments and the most important players in the UWCL run. Then in part two, Tim talks to Barcelona based journalist and former Arsenal Women Arsecast co-host Alex Ibaceta to get the Barcelona perspective on this Saturday’s final.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askcast on AskBlog.com with me, your host, Tim Stillman. |
| 0:18.2 | Looking forward, looking ahead to Saturdays Champions |
| 0:22.9 | League Final. That's right. Champions League Final against Barcelona in Lisbon, and as ever |
| 0:31.1 | joined by our co-host Jamie Spanger, to talk a little bit about this game. In the second half, |
| 0:37.3 | we're going to hear from |
| 0:38.1 | formerly of this parish, actually, Alex Abacetta, who moved out to Barcelona last summer and |
| 0:43.5 | covers them quite a lot. So we'll get her perspective and the Barcelona perspective in part two. |
| 0:49.3 | But, Jamie, Champions League Final, Arsenal, how good does that sound? |
| 0:54.8 | Tim, I'm absolutely ecstatic. |
| 0:56.7 | I feel like a kid on Christmas. |
| 0:58.1 | Like I'm counting down every night that passes one night closer to Lisbon. |
| 1:02.4 | To be honest, Tim, the last fortnight, I've just been so excited to be going. |
| 1:05.8 | And now I've hit a point this morning as of Tuesday morning where I'm like, okay, the nerves |
| 1:09.7 | are coming in a little bit. |
| 1:11.0 | We're playing an Olympic League final. |
| 1:12.5 | But Tim, I'm so good. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm over the moon. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm very, very excited for Lisbon. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:17.8 | And kind of the same here. |
| 1:19.2 | I think also, like, I kind of parked things a little bit for a few days after the Manchester United game. |
| 1:25.8 | And I think the players had some time off at the end of last week. |
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