Deja Vu at 2-0, Ødegaard's creativity, Zinchenko's liability
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone, to discuss Arsenal's victory over Wolves, which ended up being tighter than it needed to be.
It felt a lot like last season, a fast start but not clinical enough to put the game to bed.
Are Arsenal ruthless enough, and do Zinchenko's attacking qualities outweigh his defensive flaws?
Plus, Trossard's performance in midfield, and can Arsenal win at Luton for the first time since 1984?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The only way to score is of course to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:22.1 | On Saturday, the Arsenal face Wolf Hampton Wanderers started like a fast moving train, and then near the end. |
| 0:28.5 | We're a little bit more replacement bus service, but we picked up the three points to stay top of the table. |
| 0:35.0 | And with the result of the Etihad, we're currently two points clear. Yes, |
| 0:38.8 | this terrible start to the season just goes from bad to worse, doesn't it really? |
| 0:42.8 | To talk about the game and look at the Luton on Tuesday, I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. |
| 0:48.1 | Good morning. Hello. Hello. Before we talk about the Arsenal, I'm sure quite a few of you listening watched Manchester City play Spurs yesterday and we'll talk about whether we should celebrate their goal, their equaliser in a bit. But we were talking about their away kit, their third kit. And we were wondering about what words you would best |
| 1:11.7 | be used to describe Tottenham's abomination, I'm saying, of an away kit. The official description |
| 1:16.7 | of the colour, by the way, was Tope Hayes complimented by Black Trim, although nobody I've heard |
| 1:21.3 | was paying it any compliments at all. Adrian, I mean, have you ever worn a kit even close to that |
| 1:27.2 | with Toap Hayze with black trim? |
| 1:30.2 | Toe Hayes, no, I hadn't heard of Toepe Hayes until a couple of minutes ago. |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah, it's Nike. |
| 1:37.6 | They've got Air Jordans in that colour. |
| 1:39.5 | This is why they're doing it. |
| 1:40.7 | But, I mean, the two words that sort of come to my mind are crappy clay or sort of |
| 1:47.8 | shitty mud, that kind of colour. |
| 1:50.2 | I mean, that's how I'm feeling about it. |
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