Odegaard on song in nervy Brighton win
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to discuss both Arsenal’s 2-1 win against Brighton at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday and their quarterfinal win against Crystal Palace in the Carabao Cup last week.
The panel reflect on another nervy finish to the game, feeling positive about Arsenal’s attacking play despite poor finishing, Odegaard’s encouraging performance, Raya’s importance after another match winning save, Gyokeres' continued lack of form and the difficulties for new players to adapt.
Plus, they look ahead to Arsenal’s match against Aston Villa on Tuesday night at Emirates stadium.
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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 Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:21.0 | Today we'll be chatting about Arsenal's not nervy at all to one win against Brighton |
| 0:25.1 | the Emirates Stadium on Saturday. |
| 0:26.6 | Also, have a quick look back to Arsenal's not nervy at all win over Crystal Palace on |
| 0:32.7 | penalties in the Carabelle Cup. |
| 0:34.7 | Pre-Christmas, I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Morning. |
| 0:39.2 | Good morning. Merry Twixmas, everybody. Merry, Merry Christmas and Twixmas. That's right. This is a betwixt time, isn't it? It's weird, |
| 0:47.9 | isn't it, this time? It's a bit weird. Where are we? Who are we? Feels very anchoring to talk to you guys |
| 0:53.8 | this time. |
| 0:55.6 | Well, we're glad. |
| 0:56.9 | You got me out of bed for this. |
| 0:58.5 | This is the first time. |
| 0:59.6 | I've stayed in bed beyond 9 o'clock and maybe a year. |
| 1:03.7 | And I forgot that we might record earlier. |
| 1:06.5 | So when we got the text, I was like, griking. |
| 1:10.4 | Really? We took you away from a lie in. Yeah, I was loving it. Oh, absolutely loving it. All right. Well, listen, do you want to go back to bed for 10 minutes? I'll chat away with me and then we can, you know, carry on after you're feeling better. Yeah, sorry about that. But, you know, we've all got our lives to lead. Own goals, by the way. Own goals again, oh, lay, allay. Four out of the last six. Have you scored any own goals in your own life recently? Got in your own way, put your foot in your mouth out of palava. Adrian, any own goals? I'm coming to you first because Amy's answer might be longer. Yeah, true, true. Look, my life is full of these, full of home goals. And remarkably, yeah, lately, things haven't been too bad. You're keeping it together, mate? Yeah, I'm keeping it together. I did load the dishwasher the other day that was half emptied by someone else and load it with dirty stuff. That was a bit of a minor own goal. |
| 2:01.5 | Hang on, hang on. Sorry, Adrian. You loaded it with dirty stuff. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Is that what you meant to do? And then I filled it up with dirty stuff, which is a, it's a known goal, isn't it? Half unloaded. That is very confusing. Why would you do that? What, why would they just? Stop, mid unload. |
| 2:18.2 | This is true. |
| 2:18.8 | This is true. |
| 2:19.3 | But let's not go there. |
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