PSG make it look easy. Arsenal make it look hard
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The Times
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Is this PSG team the best since Pep Guardiola's Barca team?
They beat Liverpool showing they can defend as well as they attack.
Arsenal managed only one shot on target beating Sporting. What happens now for Mikel Arteta's side, top of the league and semi final of the Champions League, but are they in danger of ending up with nothing?
Harry Kane is having the season of his life, surely he is in the conversation for the Ballon d'or.
Hugo Ekitike has ruptured his achilles, an injury Gregor robertson suffered in his career - how bad is it and do you ever fully recover?
After the break should hair pulling be a red card are Leeds safe and is the Chelsea project in jeopardy?
Tom Clarke is joined by Gregor Robertson, Martin Samuel and Tony Cascarino.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game. Football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. Arsenal are |
| 0:09.5 | into the Champions League semi-finals for the second year running, but they made it look hard work |
| 0:13.7 | against sporting Lisbon in a nil-0 draw at the Emirates. Liverpool are out beaten by Holders |
| 0:19.1 | PSG in a very comfortable manner, and there were |
| 0:22.3 | thrilling games in Munich and Madrid as Athletico and Bayern complete the semi-final picture. |
| 0:28.2 | On today's show, we'll discuss all four quarterfinals and look ahead to the rest of the |
| 0:32.1 | competition. We'll also discuss hair pulling, Achilles injuries, and preview a bumper weekend |
| 0:36.8 | of Premier League action. I'm Tom Clark, and joining me today. We have Martin Samuel, the Chief Correspondent for the Times and Sunday Times. Tony Cascarino, the former Millwall, Island and Marseilles striker, and Gregor the former footballer turned journalist, is with me as usual. Martin, you were at both the English side's games this week. |
| 0:54.5 | Yes. |
| 0:55.1 | Did you wish you were at the other ones instead? |
| 0:57.1 | Italy were good in it. |
| 0:58.4 | Absolutely. Absolutely. I don't know why. |
| 1:00.9 | Not quite as exciting, but professional. |
| 1:03.1 | Professionalism dictated that those were the games. |
| 1:05.3 | You know, you go with English clubs, aren't you? That's what you do. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah. And let's start with the English side that's gone through. |
| 1:10.0 | Arsenal getting through 1-0 on aggregate against sporting. You were there last night at the Emirates. Another remarkable performance by a team that has been so lauded, quite rightly so, all season, as a brilliant outfit. They look like, I mean, I don't know what they look like. What's happened to this team? |
| 1:32.8 | It didn't look very good. I know that much. So, yeah, look, they've got through to the semi-finals of the Champions League, which everyone seems wildly excited about because they've now |
| 1:39.0 | reached back-to-back semifinals. The sort of forgetting that they actually didn't finish |
| 1:43.6 | the job the last time. And, you know, I can't see didn't finish the job the last time. |
| 1:45.2 | And, you know, I can't see why a club the size of Arsenal would be celebrating |
| 1:49.8 | semifinals. |
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