Lacklustre in Lens, Raya vs Rambo, and Man City preview
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
James McNicholas returns to the pod alongside Adrian Clarke and Ian Stone, to reflect on Arsenal’s disappointing result at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis vs Lens. It was a bad night all round as Bukayo Saka hobbled off after 34 minutes and self-inflicted errors cost the Gunners again.
The panel also preview Sunday’s clash against Manchester City and discuss Raya vs Ramsdale, particularly what it means for the club in a wider sense.
Plus, is a Xhaka sized hole affecting Zinchenko, and is Arteta mismanaging Saka’s playing time?
Produced by Jay Beale.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:09.7 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:17.6 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:22.8 | Things went from bad to worse last night with more self-inflicted errors and sack are going off injured. |
| 0:27.4 | As we suffered, our first defeat the season at the Stad Ball Art in Alons. |
| 0:31.7 | Well, analysed where it went wrong yesterday, as well as preview, a pretty big game on Sunday when Manchester City come to visit. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm joined by Adrian Clark and welcome back, James McNicholas. Hello. Hello, lovely to be |
| 0:44.8 | back. Nice to see you. Yeah, well, there's timing, James. Absolutely outstanding timing. |
| 0:51.2 | But here we are. I mean, look, we'll talk about Lons in a second. Beforehand, we all know |
| 0:59.1 | that Arsenal had a bit of trouble getting to Lant on Monday. The adverse weather resulted in |
| 1:03.7 | them being delayed for five hours at Luton Airport. You wouldn't wish that on anyone, would you, |
| 1:09.1 | really, to be perfectly fair? |
| 1:11.0 | I mean, I guess it can't happen to anybody. |
| 1:13.0 | Any travel horror stories? |
| 1:15.3 | I mean, hopefully football-related. |
| 1:17.0 | Adrian, what you got? |
| 1:18.5 | The one that I remember is when I went on a tour with a sort of local rep team to Holland, |
| 1:25.0 | probably would have been 12 or 13, and we went on the ferry. And, oh, goodness |
| 1:29.8 | me, it was a storm. And it scarred me. And I sort of, from that moment onwards, I kind of said, |
| 1:36.2 | I don't want to go on a ferry ever again. It was such big waves that we were in the sort of cafe |
| 1:41.5 | bit and everything was coming off the |
| 1:44.3 | tables you know all the glasses were smashing all the plates |
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