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Gab & Juls Show: Was Guardiola scared of Arsenal?

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Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Julien Laurens and Stewart Robson discuss Arsenal’s 1-1 draw with Manchester City and ask why Pep Guardiola set up so defensively against Mikel Arteta’s side. The guys also discuss Manchester United’s vital 2-1 win over Chelsea, the impending Ballon d’Or and pay their respects to Matt Beard.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4

Hello, welcome to The Gab and Jew show. No Gab today. He's in the US. So look who's come down to me. Hello, Shoe Robson.

0:41.9

Hello. Thank you so much for coming. It's always a pleasure. We've got massive shows to you because we've got big games in the Premier League. We had the United Chelsea on Saturday. We had the Merserset Derby. On Sunday, the big one was asked foron-Ustice. The city, but also the Rome Derby was on. There were big games in France. There's the Ballando coming. Tonight, that's pretty cool then. We're very busy. But I'm glad you're here to help me just analyzing everything and making sense of all those games that we saw, especially the Arsenal City game on Sunday.

1:13.0

What did you make of it overall and that one one result?

1:19.3

I mean, I was a little bit disappointed with Arsenal because Manchester City, I think,

1:23.6

are frightened of Arsenal now, because they know they can dominate the ball, they can hit Manchester City with pace in the wide areas.

1:26.6

They've got players that can open up Man City. So they were going to have lots of possession. But I was disappointed with Arsenal in the first half that a lot of that possession was square and backwards. I mean, the outball was always Madweiki out on the right hand side. So I do did OK to a certain degree. I went past his man. Yeah. I know Riley defended him well on a certain occasions.

1:46.2

But I just wanted more penetration.

1:48.0

I wanted, there's no reason when the back players had the ball.

1:51.6

And the only person really pressing the ball was Harlan

1:53.7

and maybe sometimes Fodon went to press a little bit with him.

1:56.8

Why does Rice want to come deeper?

1:59.9

I agree.

2:00.1

And why does Subimendi want to come deeper? Let the centre halves and let the, you know, at least one of the four weeks do that. You play 10 yards up the field closer to Jokkeresh and then, you know, you're going to cause more problems. But it was all a bit too slow and too much passing and should we put no we pass it back to the center

2:18.4

halves and it just allowed man city to get behind the ball it's that midfield three of when there's no

2:23.3

other guard marino with remandien rice instead of a new one yeary or a zay who came on a half time for that

2:30.9

is it you think because they're frightened to give the ball away the, you know, rather than thinking, I can pick a pass out that might cause problems. You know, is that come from the coach. Don't give the ball away, keep it, keep it, let's dominate possession. Yeah, I think the idea was very much the control of it. Like the way, I Liverpool when they did it, the problem is you like creativity and you like play between the lines, right?

2:51.4

And Citi are very vulnerable between the lines with the other guys, spurs. And I don't think Arsenal did it enough. Is there a case from a coaching point of view from Arte deita? Asi has just arrived. He's been there like two minutes, right? And he usually plays on the left. That's really good for Palace. to put him in that other guard role on the right

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