Episode 852 - The corner flag dancer
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined by Phil Costa to discuss Arsenal's 3-0 Champions League win over Slavia Prague. We chat about the changes to the starting XI, a difficult start for the Gunners before getting on top, a European handball to give us a penalty in the first half, and the enigma that is Mikel Merino finding the back of the net twice. We also talk about an interesting tactical decision from Mikel Arteta, keeping yet another clean sheet to equal an incredibly long-standing club record, Max Dowman becoming the youngest ever Champions League player, and lots more – including the winners of last week's book competition.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog Arscast right here on Arsblog.com. |
| 0:29.9 | How are you? Hope you're well. Thank you very much. Indeed, as always, for being here. |
| 0:34.5 | Wherever you are in the world, I hope you're doing okay, doing well. |
| 0:37.6 | Boyed by the fact that Arsenal won another game last night, |
| 0:41.8 | four out of four in the Champions League, a three-nil win over Slavia Prague. |
| 0:46.7 | And that, of course, will be the focus of this particular podcast. |
| 0:50.2 | Plenty to get into two goals for Mikhail Marino, |
| 0:53.5 | yet another clean sheet for Arsenal, despite |
| 0:56.9 | the trauma, the tragedy of allowing a shot on target. A debut for Max Dowman in Europe, becoming |
| 1:05.2 | the youngest ever player to play in the Champions League as well as a European debut for 17-year-old |
| 1:10.8 | Andre Harriman, Anus, and an Arsenal team that went away from home in Europe |
| 1:16.3 | without a clutch of players, like really important, really good attacking players. |
| 1:22.1 | And we still won the game in what I think, maybe Michel Artetta didn't quite agree, |
| 1:27.4 | was a fairly comfortable way. |
| 1:30.0 | So we're going to get into all of that. |
| 1:32.0 | Can I just say, though, there was a real missed opportunity last night on TV. |
| 1:36.9 | I was watching on TNT Sports. |
| 1:39.2 | And with no disrespect to Martin Keone, who was the co-commentator, they had a problem on the mics, about 10 minutes |
| 1:47.3 | into the game. All of a sudden it started echoing like this. So they were talking, and you could |
| 1:53.2 | hear them echoing, which can be really disconcerting. If the commentators and Martin Keone were |
| 2:00.2 | hearing that, it's really disconcerting. If the commentators and Martin Keone were hearing that, it's |
| 2:01.1 | really disconcerting. If you can hear yourself back in your ear like a half a second after |
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