Gyökeres Gets His Goal

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4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The FC crew is joined by Craig Burley and Frank Leboeuf live from Wembley to discuss Premier League preseason action where Viktor Gyökeres scored his first Arsenal goal. Then, the guys look ahead to the FA Community Shield tomorrow. Later, Alex Kirkland joins to break down Iñigo Martínez's move to Al-Nassr, and Barcelona restoring the captaincy of Marc-André ter Stegen. Plus, a look at Real Madrid's expectations this season as Alex gives insight on how Real Madrid set up vs Leganés in a closed-door friendly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.4	Hello and welcome into the latest edition of the SPNFC, Ali Moreno.
0:35.1	Stevie Nicol and myself Kay Murray here in the studio. Let's get you caught up first on some of the preseason friendly action that we've witnessed today. Arsenal with a 3-0 win over athletic, a goal from Victor Giacas in that game. Manchester United with the draw against Fiorentina. They would go on to win that game on penalties. Newcastle's woeful run in preseason friendlies continues.
0:55.0	Still no Alexander Isak in the squad and another game without a win for them, beaten 2-0 by Athleti.
1:01.0	And Manchester City, Dejani Rinders, with a good day today against Palermo scoring two of those three goals.
1:07.0	Few things of note, Rasmus Hoyland didn't play in the friendly against Fiorentina.
1:11.6	As for Newcastle at pre-season record, no wins in their last six games in the summer.
1:16.6	Two goals for Rinders as mentioned against Palermo and Yoccherez with his first goal for Arsenal at Hedda against Athletic Club.
1:24.6	We'll be hearing from Craig Burley and Frank LeBuff in just a moment
1:28.0	outside from Wembley. However, they have encountered a bit of an overexcited fun right now. So we'll
1:33.7	get back to them in just a moment. First O'A., good day for Victor Giacores.
1:39.0	We spoke about it yesterday, the importance of new players or incoming players having an impact early
1:45.8	on and giving signs and showing signs of what they can bring to the new team. In this case,
1:51.8	what is the expectation of Victor Jokeres coming into Arsenal to score goals? And I think
1:57.6	what's more encouraging than anything else is not only the header, which by itself was a very good finish, but it's the movement to get ahead of the defender to then find the header.
2:07.3	And then beyond that, the goal by Waukayo Saka comes from the hold-up play initially of Victor Jokeres.
2:12.9	So it's positive signs for Jokades in what was, I thought, a very encouraging performance from him
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