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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Arsenal are through to the round of 16 in the Champions League following their 2-1 win against Girona on Wednesday Night.
Art de Roché and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to reflect on the game, marveling at the incredible performance of Ethan Nwaneri on his Champions League Debut, announcing himself on the European stage. Neto's Arsenal debut and Sterling's performance are also discussed.
Plus we talk about Myles Lewis Skelly's red card appeal being upheld, the club's reported approach for Ollie Watkins and look ahead to a huge game against Manchester City this Sunday.
Producer: Robby Williams
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0:00.0 | The Athletic FC Podcast Network. |
0:07.2 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
0:14.9 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Hand-break-off. The Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic last night. |
0:21.7 | The Arsenal beat Girona 2-1 in the final. Champions League group stage game securing a third place finish, |
0:27.5 | seeing us comfortably through to the round of 16. To reflect on the game and look at the Man City |
0:32.6 | on Sunday, I'm joined by Art de Roche and Adrian Clark. Morning. Good morning. |
0:37.8 | Morning. Nice. Well, here we are, through to the last 16, without any, |
0:43.4 | not any, without too much drama. |
0:47.1 | And we'll get to that in a second before you wouldn't have been surprised to know |
0:51.5 | that Arsenal had their appeal to Miles Lewis Skelly's red card against Wolves upheld, meaning he's available this weekend and will not |
0:59.0 | serve a three-match ban. But he did get 45 minutes off last weekend. So thank you, PGMO |
1:05.7 | for that. We really appreciate the rest for our young chap. Mikhail Artetta said in his pre-match press conference that you heard about it on the way |
1:13.3 | to Gerona while MLS was sleeping in the back. |
1:17.9 | You ever woken up to good news, Adrian? |
1:20.0 | You wake up to good news? |
1:22.1 | I'm not a massive sleeper when I'm travelling, I've got to say. |
1:25.5 | I find it a bit tricky. |
1:31.0 | I was wracking my brains about this. I'm going gonna take it all the way back to when I was young in the days where you got news by post |
1:34.2 | and |
1:35.3 | I don't know about this like post we used to have a postal service |
1:39.7 | people used to come like twice a day |
1:41.9 | twice a day that's how many letters. |
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