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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

FA Cup final preview: Selection dilemmas, Ozil’s future, and Chelsea’s defensive problems

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports News, Sports, News, Soccer

4.0760 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Peter Smith is joined by features writer Nick Wright and Sky Sports News reporter Paul Gilmour to look ahead to Saturday’s FA Cup final between Arsenal and Chelsea. As well as discussing how the final may play out, they also consider the progress made by Mikel Arteta and Frank Lampard and issues for the London clubs to address in the transfer market.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sky Sports Football Podcast brought to you by Bet365, where every now biting nil-nil, every bizarre VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap-in, full-start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.

0:17.3

From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsport.

0:25.1

Whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet365.

0:37.1

Hello and welcome to this special Sky Sports Football podcast where we will be looking ahead to the FA Cup final between Arsenal and Chelsea.

0:40.2

Miko Arteeta and Frank Lampard have won this competition six times between them as players for their respective clubs,

0:45.9

but which of them will be able to clinch their first piece of silverware as a manager on Saturday evening?

0:50.7

I'm Peter Smith, the Sky Sports Football Features Editor.

0:53.2

Today I'm joined by Football

0:54.6

Features Writer Nick Wright. How you doing, Nick? Very well, thanks Pete. Good. And SkySports

0:59.6

News reporter Paul Gilmore. How's things, Paul? I'm good. Thanks Pete. Hope you're well.

1:04.1

Yeah, very well, thank you. Very well. Just looking forward to this big game on Saturday.

1:07.5

It's going to be an interesting one. And Paul, I was at Chelsea's semi-final

1:11.1

win over Man United. It's a strange one, actually. A strange one being at these games when no

1:16.3

fans are allowed there. You know, you're driving in and there's no real buzz around the stadium,

1:20.4

no supporters gathering outside Wembley. And then inside, it's quiet. There's an odd hush

1:25.2

going on for most of the time, just journalists tapping away on their match reports.

1:29.7

And you hear the odd voice of the coaches shouting out to the players.

1:33.9

You almost have to remind yourself that these are incredibly important football matches going on in front of you.

1:38.9

But despite the situation, this is a huge game for both Artetta, Lampard, and the players involved, isn't it?

1:44.4

It is massive. And yeah, they felt like training games, haven't they, at times?

1:47.7

When just a lack of atmosphere, I watched Millwall Middlesbrough recently

1:51.7

and listening to Neil Warrick on the touchline,

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