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Gab and Juls: Arsenal banish Aston Villa demons

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Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti is joined by Stewart Robson for a deep dive into Arsenal's 2-0 win at Aston Villa, as Mikel Arteta's men get one over the side that beat them twice last season. The pair also look at the biggest news from across the weekend's European matches, as Chelsea score six, Manchester United stumble at Brighton and Real Madrid's Endrick opens his LaLiga account before Kylian Mbappe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gahab, he's not jewels, but he's Stuart Ian Robson, the Philip Seymour Hoffman of football

0:11.6

punditry, at least among X-Prows. Blue skies over West London, especially at the 6-2 win.

0:18.0

Lots of stuff going on, Robbo, thanks for joining us.

0:21.0

Pleasure.

0:22.0

Or joining me, actually, since I'm here by myself, except for you.

0:25.0

Although we could chat to an AI earlier, which is kind of creepy.

0:28.0

He spoke a lot of intelligence AI, didn't it?

0:30.5

But I digress.

0:31.5

Look, there's so much going on there's transfers happening not happening all the leagues are underway

0:36.0

Byern a late win for them

0:39.8

Little bit heavy levercoosin like a little bit late win for leavick and we're never losing

0:44.0

uh...

0:45.6

around Madrid and bape perhaps overshadowed a little bit by mr

0:48.7

endrick on his debut

0:50.5

uh... we'll get into all that we're going get into United Dropping Points, Chelsea scoring four goals in the second half.

0:55.5

Times going on, but we're going to start with Aston Villa and Arsenal. There's undoubtedly a

1:00.4

symbolic value to the fact that they go there and they win too nil.

1:05.1

Do we make too much a big deal out of it or did you see a performance where they said

1:09.2

this was substantially better than a year ago? I don't think they were at their very best

1:14.5

particularly defensively. They had one moment in the first half where they were caught

1:18.1

on the ball and Ollie Watkins should have scored it was a fairly easy chance not the only easy chance he had

1:25.2

another one later in the second half where he should have done better a riot

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