How significant was Arsenal's win over Man City?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic's Arsenal writer James McNicholas and reporter Adam Crafton following the Gunners' first Premier League win over Man City in almost eight years.
The panel discuss the importance of the win over Pep Guardiola's side for Mikel Arteta before analysing Arsenal's summer transfer business and assessing whether or not it will be enough to help Arsenal leapfrog Man City in the Premier League.
Plus, after five years in sole charge of the club, the role of the ownership group KSI is also debated in how Arsenal have become an aligned force on-and-off the pitch.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | At last, Arsenal had trance the city code. |
| 0:09.0 | After almost eight years of waiting, Arsenal finally have a win over Manchester City. |
| 0:14.0 | But what did we learn from the meeting of the champions and challenges? |
| 0:18.0 | Has Arsenal's summer spending delivered on taking them to the next level? |
| 0:22.1 | And can Michel Artetta side sustain this season's bid for a first title since 2004? |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Ayahu Akim Malare. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:36.3 | And now it's Martin Elliott, it's a big depletion and it's an Arsenal goal. |
| 0:41.8 | And it's Gabriel Martinelli who sprits to the corner as the gunners hero. |
| 0:52.2 | For this one we have the Athletics Arsenal writer James McNicolus and also Adam |
| 0:56.7 | Crafton is with us as well. |
| 0:58.7 | Right, let's get into this. |
| 0:59.7 | Arsenal beat Manchester City 1-0. |
| 1:02.9 | First time Arsenal had beaten Manchester City since 2015. |
| 1:06.1 | 15 games they've gone and haven't beaten City. |
| 1:09.6 | The last time I saw beat Manchester City, |
| 1:11.5 | Arsumvenger was still managing the club. |
| 1:13.0 | Barack Obama was still president of the United States. |
| 1:16.1 | The iPhone 6 had just dropped as Apple's flagship phone. |
| 1:20.9 | James, this was a significant victory for the gunners, wasn't it? |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, and I was still covering Arsenal back then, |
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