Jesus brace sinks Inter at San Siro
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
James McNicholas and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 3-1 win away to Inter on Tuesday night to make it seven wins from seven games in the Champions League.
The panel reflect on the exciting attacking display, the space afforded to Arsenal in Europe, the strength of the squad after heavy rotation, Jesus’s player of the match performance, the benefit of Gyokeres off the bench, Mosquera’s impressive return from injury, Lewis-Skelly’s positive showing and whether Saka is the best right winger in Europe.
Plus, they look ahead to Manchester United at Emirates Stadium on Sunday and we hear from Pedro in Santiago, Chilé in this week’s instalment of Up Your Arsenal.
Producer: Robby Williams
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stan, this is Handbraker Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:19.1 | Today we'll be chatting about Arsenal's excellent. 3-1 win against Inter Milan in the San Ciro last night and look forward to |
| 0:26.9 | Manchester Night in the league on Sunday. To do that, I'm joined by James McNicholas and Art de Roche. |
| 0:32.0 | Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. James is sporting a look, a new look, which you did, James Fitelli, right, for acting. |
| 0:41.2 | It was for an audition for something, yeah. |
| 0:43.0 | For an audition, right, okay. |
| 0:44.8 | And it involves attached and side burns, balls. |
| 0:48.3 | I never know. |
| 0:49.3 | Anyway, and obviously we won last night, and now you have to keep it. All right. This is it. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah. I mean, you know, such time as you don't, I guess. It's my cross to bear, I suppose. Yeah, I left it on to sort of amuse my wife when she got home. But then before I knew it, the game was underway. And we won very convincingly and handsomely. So handsome or not, I think I have no choice but to persist for the time being. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, I just think you no choice but to persist for the time being. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, I just think you can't upset the football gods, all right? |
| 1:16.5 | Okay. |
| 1:17.3 | All right, understood. Look down on you with your moustache and sideboards, burns. |
| 1:22.1 | What would be funny is if like, obviously, to get back to my real life, I do remove them, I shave them off. |
| 1:44.5 | But I can never bring myself to tell you guys. So, like, I turn up for every podcast recording with, like, a drawn-on, moustache and, like, little fake sides. I've got to keep the illusion going. Web cam's not working again, James. I can't believe it. Yeah, I know. I'm believable. Well, we'll talk about last night then. Gabby J. Zeus kept up his incredible record in the Champions League. |
| 1:48.6 | Ten goal involvement in the Champions League for wrestling, 15 appearances, six goals and four assists. |
| 1:53.5 | I mean, it basically seems to enjoy Champions League football more than other competitions. |
| 1:57.2 | What conditions do you do your best work in James? I mean, do you work best in Europe or do you work best in, you know, at home? I mean, I don't know how this works. |
| 2:07.2 | Hawaii, if my boss is listening, is where I'm at my absolute peak. No, I do my best work at the last minute. I'm one of those guys. I'm like, do it the night before, |
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