Can Arsenal Handle the Pressure?

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The FC crew discuss if Mikel Arteta & Arsenal can handle the pressure of a title race from now until the end of the season with Manchester City on their tails. Also, the panel talks how many years it will take for Manchester United to get back to lifting the Premier League trophy. Plus, talks of Xabi Alonso's job still under pressure & a look back at Dortmund's win before winter break in the Bundesliga. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.4	talking about the Premier League weekend ahead as we take a look at the top of the
0:35.8	Premier League table where Arsenal sit top after 16
0:39.3	rounds of action ahead of their weekends clash away to Everton but there have been a few things called
0:44.3	into question of late with Arsenal as to how well they're dealing with the title pressure right now.
0:49.3	It feels that at any point now any small slip up cost them, Stevie. So why is this the case
0:56.5	right now? Do you know, it's really tough to put your finger on the problem that they're having
1:03.1	right now. Because it's there, isn't it? We can feel it. We can feel a bit of tension. Yeah,
1:07.8	and if we can feel it, then you know that they're thinking about it.
1:12.2	And I've said previously that I think the key to this is the manager. It's how the manager
1:16.8	reacts and how the manager is day to day. It's not about turning up with the day of the game
1:21.9	and getting things right. It's about what happens during the week. And the manager, in my
1:26.2	opinion, is the key to it all. He has to have the demeanour of, we just do what we do. We do our week's training, regardless of the opposition. Yes, we have two or three little things we need to keep an eye on, but this is about us. This is about what we do. You know, you're going around Saka, you tell him you do what you do, you
1:44.5	go around and you basically go around and do all the things that you've done the whole season
1:50.2	when you were top of the league and everybody's talking about how great you are, how solid you are,
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