Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 158: Gunners Hammer Out Big Victory against the Irons
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim and Jamie look over Saturday's 5-0 home win over West Ham with focus on the performances of Olivia Smith, Chloe Kelly and Smilla Holmberg, as well as a look at how Arsenal were able to rotate their defence heavily and maintain their run of clean sheets. There is also some discussion of the Asian Cup Final which Jamie attended in Sydney. In part two, Tim and Jamie take questions from BlueSky on midday kickoffs, winger selection ahead of Tuesday's UWCL game against Chelsea and Beth Mead playing as a number 10.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askcast on AskBlog.com with me, your host, Tim Stillman, looking back on Saturdays 5-0 win over West Ham at Emirates Stadium. |
| 0:23.6 | And we're recording this Saturday evening, UK time, Sunday morning, Australian time, because really there's no other time to record because by the time you listen to this, I'll either be on my way to |
| 0:38.8 | Wembley or maybe even on my way back. And then Monday, there's all the match day minus one |
| 0:44.5 | stuff ahead of the game against Chelsea on Tuesday, so we have to record on Saturday night. |
| 0:49.3 | Saturday night for me anyway, Sunday morning for our co-host Jamie, who is in Sydney, having been at the Asian |
| 0:56.6 | Cup final on Sunday on, sorry, on Saturday evening for you guys, right? Saturday, Saturday morning |
| 1:05.0 | for us, I'm getting confused with the time difference, but Jamie, how, how are you feeling this Sunday morning? |
| 1:13.4 | Tim, head sore, heartbroken. It was a tough, tough game, a hard one. Honestly, I feel like |
| 1:22.2 | I expected, I didn't expect any more than that, but it was a strong performance which led to a little bit of heartache in the golden generation, of course, losing that final was tough. |
| 1:33.1 | But I think there's also the caveat that when you lose to a team like Japan, it makes it feel a little bit better. |
| 1:38.7 | So, yeah, I'm a bit sad, Tim. |
| 1:41.5 | Yeah, I saw the game, I got to the to the Emirates probably about 35 minutes into the game, |
| 1:46.1 | and I watched it from there in the media room, |
| 1:48.2 | and it really felt to me like it should have been a draw, |
| 1:51.8 | like pretty much all the way through, |
| 1:53.4 | even at half time when Japan will wander up. |
| 1:55.6 | I was kind of thinking, this is a really even game, |
| 1:58.8 | and it probably should be leveled. |
| 2:02.3 | And obviously, Australia through the kitchen sink at it at the end and Nils Nilsson's pretty much press conference where he |
| 2:09.5 | he talked about a lot of things very colourfully but he talked about it being a 50-50 game and |
| 2:15.6 | it and it really really was and you know obviously I don't have |
| 2:20.6 | well I say I don't have a dog in this fight I had three dogs in this fight really from arsenal |
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