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Gab and Juls: Man City Swipe Arsenal Aside

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Manchester City’s 4-1 victory over title rivals Arsenal and ask what Mikel Arteta could have done differently, if anything, to have defeated Pep Guardiola's side. The guys also discuss Inter's 1-0 win over Juventus in the Coppa Italia semifinal, whether Mauricio Pochettino is the right man for Chelsea and if a Champions League final in America would be a popular idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gab, he's Jules, a bluish guy's over whistle.

0:08.8

Anyway, check it out.

0:09.8

But you know what, it's definitely stormy clouds over the North London and a lot of happy

0:15.1

people in the blue half of gold.

0:17.4

Manchester City destroying, wiping the floor, I think is a term, Arsenal 4-1.

0:24.1

In what we said, maybe it's too wrong to call the title decider, this could be twists and

0:28.7

terms.

0:29.7

But effectively, mentally, psychologically, this is a huge blow.

0:35.2

Arsenal are still two points clear.

0:37.0

City has two games in hand and a big lead in the gold difference, which means that as

0:45.1

of right now, if the lead doesn't change, City can just draw their two games in hand or

0:50.0

win one and lose one and they're champions.

0:52.0

Yeah, and there's more games to play, of course.

0:54.8

Both of them have to play Brighton and Chelsea.

0:57.8

Arsenal will have to go to Newcastle or City go to Fulham, for example, this weekend.

1:02.4

So you just throw a lot of you know, you don't know.

1:06.6

But yeah, I think the title is worn out for City, the demonstration of football, of what

1:12.4

Arsenal would like to be one day and what they aim in for, that kind of intensity, that

1:17.2

kind of just tactical perfection, which really was there.

1:21.1

And when we thought for all those times, we've got Gordola kind of over thought, kind of

1:27.1

invented something, change, no number six, no number nine, he came back to basic really

1:33.0

with the back four traditional back four.

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