Episode 859 - End of year fun
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined by Phil Costa to look back on Tuesday evening's 4-1 win over Aston Villa. After a frustrating first half in many ways, Arsenal turned the screw to take all three points with goals from Gabriel, Martin Zubimendi, Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Jesus. We examine the key moments from both halves, and analyse the goals we scored, particularly the one with the goalkeeping error. There's also discussion of Gabriel's importance, Leandro Trossard's output, Martin Odegaard, Jesus getting back on the scoresheet after a year, handshake drama, the fun to be had with a game of this kind, a statement win from Mikel Arteta's team which ensured we go into 2026 on top of the Premier League, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | The The last kick between these clubs was a decisive one for Hemi Buendia and Aston Villa. |
| 0:33.6 | The first kick here, what path will this game take us on in the Premier League game of Snakes and Ladders? |
| 0:42.3 | Villa looking to go level with Arsenal tonight. |
| 0:50.3 | Riel just serves the goalkeeper and gets it over the line. |
| 0:55.0 | He made his presence felt in front of Moby Martinez. |
| 1:00.0 | But Martinez's mate, made for a whole new master this. |
| 1:04.0 | Order guard, what he get from Sancho? |
| 1:08.0 | Brilliant ball through Zubilee! |
| 1:12.6 | Astor are flying now! |
| 1:15.6 | Tussard! |
| 1:18.6 | A beautiful, clean strike that surely settles this match now. |
| 1:25.6 | Chatsard's made the run on ahead of him. Sucker on the far side, his callback for Jay-Zus is just on. |
| 1:31.3 | And what an instant impact! |
| 1:35.3 | Gabriel, Jay-Zus, two days short of a year since his last goal, |
| 1:41.3 | comes on with a bang and makes it four now now now |
| 1:50.5 | Hiroleth! |
| 1:54.5 | Hello and welcome to a brand new Arsblog arscast right here on arsblog.com. How are you? Hope you're well. Is that the most |
| 2:03.6 | redundant hope you're well I've ever said at the start of one of these podcasts? Because I'm pretty |
| 2:09.0 | sure, unless you're some kind of random Aston Villa fan listening to this, you are well this morning. |
| 2:15.5 | You are very, very well after our 4-1 win yesterday evening |
| 2:20.1 | over Unai Emery's Aston Villa, the team that had inflicted such cruel late pain on us |
| 2:27.2 | just a few short weeks ago, the start of December. And man, that really did feel bad. |
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