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Gab & Juls Show: Are Arsenal the best team in the World right now?

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Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Arsenal’s impressive 3-1 win over previously unbeaten Bayern Munich in the Champions League and ask if there is a better team in the world right now. The guys also discuss Liverpool’s 4-1 defeat against PSV Eindhoven, Kylian Mbappe’s 4-goal heroics against Olympiacos & ask how Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to play in Portugal’s opening World Cup matches despite being suspended after getting sent off against Ireland.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:35.1

I'm Gabby's Jules. Grace guys over West London, but that's just, that's just literally, metaphorically, it's blue skies all over London because Chelsea destroyed Barcelona.

0:45.0

And Arsenal, of course, beat Biden in the clash of unbeaten teams.

0:50.1

George, this is just a little bit of what went on it, but we will talk about Arson and Bayern as a main segment.

0:54.5

We should also note round Madrid giving up three goals in Athens, Manchester City, maybe being a little too clever and losing.

1:04.5

Heartbreak for Inter.

1:06.2

But you know where we're going to start.

1:07.9

We're going to start at the Emirates, Arsenal and Bayern.

1:11.2

I'm going to come out and say this.

1:14.8

If there was a number one ranking like they do in boxing or whatever, it's Arsenal right now.

1:21.7

Arsenal are the top of the power rankings.

1:25.0

By and going into this had won every single game they played this season. They'd only... Bar one, yeah. Bar one. They had the one draw. At the weekend, they rested a lot of guys. Yes, Luis Diaz was suspended, but they were prepared for this. Arsenal coming off the Spurs game, which still takes... Okay, I know Spurs got battered, but it still takes

1:45.3

a lot out of you psychologically, and with a big game coming up at the weekend. And I thought in the

1:50.7

second half, Arsenal just turned it on even before the substitutions. Yeah, the second half was really

1:54.8

impressive. Everything from Declan Rice to your defense on hurricane Kane to how clinical you were and to be fair they

2:05.0

should have scored more goals than the three that they actually scored to the substitutions from

2:09.6

Michael Arteeta and his coaching everything was just pretty much perfect I guess they can maybe

2:15.8

look at the goal they conceded and and think okay that's

2:18.8

the only thing we gave them really because they had I think three shot by and two on target pretty

2:23.6

good pass am you also I can't make it to start you know the run that gnabre is going to make and

2:28.5

Louis kelly even after that the way they defend on the car so that's maybe the only thing if you're

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