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Hello, I'm Ian Stone, this is Handbreak Off, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.

So after possibly the most meaningless game we played in quite some time, we're about to play the most meaningful.

I think it's fair to say that we're unlikely to qualify for the Europa League through the Premier League,

but if we beat Villarreal on Thursday by 1-0 or a couple of goals, and then Maynard in the final, we'll win a trophy and qualification for

next season's Champions League. So, two-one down from the first leg in Spain. Let's look ahead

to the game with the Arsenal Writers for the Athletic, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas. Hello,

hello, mate. Hello. hello well before we start talking about

Thursday we were thinking about an opening question about maybe naming one

player do you know there is a truck outside that he warms up the engine once a

month and he's doing it right now can you you hear that? What we thought we'd ask,

obviously it's all hands at a pump on Thursday, but what one player from the Arsenal past

would you have in the team that would help us, would make it more likely that we'd win the game?

Amy, I'll start with you. Goals, goals, goals, I think.

Because the lack of clean sheet. I mean, I'd love to think

a classic European 1-0 to the Arsenal would be

obvious, but I don't think that that is really in the

personality of this current team. So,

as there may be too much work for one defender to manage,

tempted though I am to ask Tony Adams to get changed

and ready to put on his old number six shirt,

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