Episode 867: Tough draw
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined first by Kaya Kaynak to talk about Arsenal's 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday evening. We discuss team selection, the early yellow card for Robert Andrich and a potential second, Gabriel Martinelli hitting the bar, and falling behind early in the second half to a set-piece goal. We also touch on Bukayo Saka's struggles, his replacement by Noni Madueke and the impact that sub made as he won the penalty from which Kai Havertz equalised. As well as that we chat about the opposition approach, our continued issues against low-block sides, whether full backs are the ideal players to have in attacking positions, the week that English clubs have had generally in Europe, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog, Arscast, right here on arsblog.com. |
| 0:29.6 | How are you? |
| 0:30.3 | Hope you're well. |
| 0:31.3 | Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here. |
| 0:34.9 | Today we're talking about the Champions League round of 16 first leg tie |
| 0:39.9 | with Bayer Leverkusen. Far from a classic. It ended in a draw thanks to a late penalty from |
| 0:48.0 | Kai Havert's. We could have been taking a deficit back to North London, so on that basis, |
| 0:53.3 | it's a better result than it looked like it was |
| 0:55.7 | going to be. But in terms of the performance and the way Arsenal played, let's just say that |
| 1:02.2 | there is significant room for improvement going into next week's game and even going into Saturday's |
| 1:08.8 | game against Everton in the Premier League. |
| 1:12.4 | That said, it was not a good week for English clubs in Europe. |
| 1:17.1 | Manchester City, beaten by Rail Madrid, could have been worse. |
| 1:21.0 | Chelsea smashed by PSG. |
| 1:24.1 | Tottenham, well, we don't really count Tottenham as a Champions League level team. Nevertheless, |
| 1:29.8 | they provided us with some incredible comedy and a 5-2 defeat to Atlatico Madrid, and Liverpool |
| 1:35.4 | beaten away 1-0 in Turkey, going down to Galatasarai. So maybe there's something to read into |
| 1:43.8 | all of that. So we'll talk about that |
| 1:45.4 | in our discussion with our guests now in just a minute, but I did want to tell you later on. I'll give you the results of the competition. The winners of our St. Totteringham's Day print competition. Many, many of you entered. It was the easiest competition we've ever run. All you had to do was laugh at Spurs. It seems like Arsenal fans are pretty good at that. So later on, I'll give you the winners of that competition. If you entered, stay tuned. You could be one of the lucky ones. For now, though, let's get on with it. Let's talk about Bayer-Lavacuson won Arsenal One. And with me to do that this morning is Kaya Kainat. Good morning, Kyia. |
| 2:21.2 | Morning, Andrew. How are you? I'm okay. I'm just about recovered from that enthralling, |
| 2:27.0 | exciting game of football we all enjoyed last night. Tongue very slightly in cheek there. |
| 2:33.0 | But yeah, listen, I think there's actually a bit to get into, or maybe a bit to chat about sort of more widely or broadly about how |
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