Episode 850 - The memes lied to us
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined Phil Costa to talk about Arsenal's 4-0 win over Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday evening. We discuss the way the game was presented beforehand versus how it actually played out, what Diego Simeone's team selection said about how he viewed the Gunners' threat, and a couple of sliding doors moments before the goals arrived in the second half. We talk about set-piece prowess again, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Gabriel Martinelli's brilliant combination for the second goal, Viktor Gyokeres ending his dry spell in front of goal with two close range strikes, what this result and performance says about this Arsenal team, our incredible defensive record in the Champions League group stages over the last three seasons, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog Arscast right here on arsblog.com. How are you? Hope you're well. |
| 0:31.3 | Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here. It's a bit of a post-match podcast today. |
| 0:37.2 | Arsenal were in Champions League |
| 0:38.8 | action last night. A 4-0 win over Atletico Madrid. A result that's very, very pleasing, but probably |
| 0:46.7 | one that many people didn't expect. This was set up as a game. It's Arteta versus Simioni. It's |
| 0:52.7 | going to be sufferable. Two teams |
| 0:55.1 | constructing a defensive brick wall |
| 0:58.1 | and saying, come, knock |
| 1:00.0 | my wall down if you dare. |
| 1:02.1 | If you have the gumption, if you have |
| 1:04.0 | Los Weevos, to come and |
| 1:06.0 | knock my wall down, but if you try |
| 1:08.0 | and knock my wall down, you have to take |
| 1:09.9 | pieces out of your wall. |
| 1:11.6 | So your wall will be less wally than mine or something. |
| 1:18.5 | Anyway, it turned out a bit differently. |
| 1:21.0 | Maybe Atletico Madrid did have a wall, but like Humpty Dumpty, we knocked it all down. |
| 1:27.5 | Isn't that what happened with Humpty Dumpty? |
| 1:30.8 | Oh, no, that was more of a tragedy for Humpty himself, wasn't it? |
| 1:35.5 | Because essentially his brains ended up all over the floor. |
| 1:40.9 | But maybe that's what happened to Atlago Madrid. |
| 1:43.9 | They were Humpty Dumpty and we were the |
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