Remontadahaha as Arsenal dismantle Madrid in Champions League
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Arsenal dominated Real Madrid to deservedly win 2-1 at the Bernabeu, dumping the holders out of the Champions League and marching on to the semi-finals.
Hear what it was like in Madrid from Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas, as Art de Roche and Ian Stone reflect on a monumental night for Arsenal - we even managed to get Adrian Clarke away from the snooker to send over his thoughts too.
We talk about the team’s immense performances, the incredible job Mikel Arteta has done in building this team and back to back MOTM performances from Declan Rice.
Plus, reflections on Bukayo Saka’s iconic Bernabeu goal, another outstanding performance from Myles Lewis-Skelly, Jakub Kiwior’s stellar defending and our make-shift No.9 Mikel Merino with two fantastic assists.
Oh, and yes, we look ahead to Ipswich at the weekend.
Warning: strong language and scenes of jubilation throughout this show
Producer: Robby Williams
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I should say that this episode of handbreak-off contains strong language and scenes of jubilation. |
| 0:07.7 | I mean, what did you expect? |
| 0:12.2 | The Athletic FC Podcast Network. |
| 0:17.9 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:25.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Hand-break-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by the Athletic. |
| 0:31.6 | Last night, or earlier today from me, the Arsenal beat Real Madrid 2.1, 5-1 on aggregate, |
| 0:40.9 | to advance to the semi-final of the UAE for Champions League for the first time in 16 years. |
| 0:46.5 | To reflect on the historic and wonderful night and performance, |
| 0:50.5 | I'm joined by Art de Roche. Morning. |
| 0:53.1 | Good morning, or is it still evening with you? It is evening. I'm between gigs. I'm between gigs. And by the way, listener, we will be hearing from all the others, all right? But people are traveling. James and Amy are traveling back right now. Adrian is at the snooker, is he? I don't know. |
| 1:16.0 | Not yet. That's semi-finals. He thinks that's more important or something? I don't know. Anyway, I can't wait to give him ball stick. What are we hearing from all of those at some point? Have you slept? Did you sleep? You must have been quite excited. I got about |
| 1:28.5 | five hours, I think. That's quite a lot for Gooners, I think, to be honest. So yeah, I think, as was |
| 1:35.1 | probably the case with everyone, I just didn't know what to do for the two hours after full time. |
| 1:41.3 | Luckily, during the game, I was kind of in work mode, so that kept me just |
| 1:45.1 | concentrated. But then afterwards, I was just like going on TikTok, Twitter, trying to just |
| 1:50.5 | find every video I could. So yeah, it was, it was a night. |
| 1:55.0 | It was a night. Saka singing to the crowd with his shirt off after the game. I loved that. |
| 2:01.7 | I just loved that one. |
| 2:03.0 | I mean, I loved all of it, to me honestly. |
| 2:04.6 | I, after the game, because, you know, I watched it in this place in Melbourne, Beardilux, in Federation Square. |
| 2:11.9 | It was about 150, maybe 200 people in there, 5 o'clock in the morning, right? |
| 2:17.6 | These guys are showing commitment. |
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