Episode 862 - Oh hi, Kai!
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined by Charles Watts to look back at Arsenal's 3-2 win over Kairat Almaty in the Champions League on Wednesday evening. We discuss the impactful return of Kai Havertz with the German involved in all three goals; Viktor Gyokeres' up and down evening but one which was encouraging in certain aspects; a first half which should have brought more goals; second half changes; not winning this one by a greater margin; and some reflections on the Champions League campaign after eight wins from eight games. We also chat about Martin Odegaard and how the captain is struggling for form this season, whether Mikel Arteta needs to find greater involvement for Eberechi Eze, the manager's pre-game comments about getting on the boat for the final months of the season, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog, Arscast, right here on arseblog.com. |
| 0:29.9 | How are you? |
| 0:30.8 | Hope you're well. |
| 0:31.7 | Thank you very much indeed. |
| 0:32.8 | As always, for being here. |
| 0:35.2 | We're talking Champions League today. |
| 0:37.4 | A three-two win over |
| 0:39.3 | Kairat Almaty from Kazakhstan at the Emirates last night. A game that Arsenal were fully |
| 0:46.2 | expected to win, did win, probably should have won by, probably should have won. Let me do my |
| 0:52.7 | English gooder. Probably should have won. Let me do my English gooder. |
| 0:59.1 | Probably should have won by a bigger margin because we had chances. |
| 1:00.5 | Boy, oh boy, did we have chances. |
| 1:05.2 | But they got a late goal which, I don't know, did it blot our copybook in the grand scheme of things? |
| 1:06.6 | I mean, this is a game, obviously. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm not saying it didn't matter because, you know, every game matters in its own way, |
| 1:18.3 | but there's a sliding scale of matter matter mattering, matterization, matterificness. |
| 1:19.8 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:22.5 | This was low down on that particular scale. |
| 1:26.4 | So we will have to look at this game through that particular prism, right? |
| 1:27.5 | How much did this matter in the grand scheme of things? Were there things we should take positives from? If we can, are there |
| 1:32.7 | things that we can analyze and not be critical of, but maybe discuss to see if we can do some of |
| 1:38.4 | those things better? I think that's fair. I think that's all right. Ultimately, though, |
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