Raya heroics and Ødegaard magic see Arsenal into last eight
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
James McNicholas and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to reflect on Arsenal reaching the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 14 years.
Porto did not make it easy, taking the game to extra time and a penalty shoot-out.
Arsenal dispatched their penalties with such confidence, while David Raya took care of the rest saving twice from the spot to send Mikel Arteta's side through.
The panel discuss what this win will do for momentum and belief within this young Arsenal team.
Plus, captain fantastic - Martin Ødegaard, and one of us - William Saliba.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:04.0 | Saved in |
| 0:07.0 | Damien Ryan saved it |
| 0:09.0 | Arsenal through to the quarter-finals |
| 0:11.0 | of the Champions League |
| 0:13.0 | The weightish final here |
| 0:15.0 | over |
| 0:16.0 | 14 years of bar break and prostration |
| 0:19.0 | Damien Ryan the hero with two gigantic saves. |
| 0:23.9 | And Arsenal, after a marathon, knockout quarter. |
| 0:27.8 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:37.5 | This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:42.8 | Last night, as if you didn't know, the Arsenal progress to the quarterfinals of the Champions League. |
| 0:49.1 | I love saying that. |
| 0:50.4 | I genuinely love saying that. |
| 0:52.1 | It's the first time we've got there in 14 years. We beat |
| 0:55.4 | Porto on penalties to reflect the game. I'm joined by Adrian Clark and James McNicholas. Good |
| 1:02.2 | morning. Good morning. Morning. Nice to see you guys. I mean, look, I think we can all agree |
| 1:08.6 | last night was not easy. I've not felt tension like that in quite a long time. |
| 1:13.5 | I think it was the same for a lot of people. By full-time, I was a big of exhausted and wired. |
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