Rice brace leads Arsenal to victory
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to discuss Arsenal’s 3-2 victory away to Bournemouth on Saturday.
The panel reflect on the teams’s ability to get tight victories over the line, players improving since arriving at Arsenal, the midfield fluidity, Zubimendi’s impressive season so far, Odegaard hitting top form, Gabriel’s atonement for his early mistake, and Rice’s new chant following his player of the match performance.
Plus, they look ahead to Arsenal’s match against Liverpool at Emirates Stadium on Thursday night and react to Manchester City’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea.
Producer: Robby Williams
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:07.1 | The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbrake-Off, the Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:20.1 | We're going to be talking about three-two away to Bournemouth last night, and we're also |
| 0:24.3 | maybe have a quick look ahead. |
| 0:26.3 | Maybe, we will have a quick look ahead to Liverpool on Thursday. |
| 0:30.4 | Games keep coming, didn't they? |
| 0:31.8 | I'm John Bart de Roche and Amy Lawrence. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello. |
| 0:35.0 | Hiya. |
| 0:35.7 | Good evening. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello. |
| 0:42.3 | Amy was very keen to talk about the fact that the Bournemouth player, who I believe is called Adley, basically dived, basically headbutted |
| 0:48.6 | Gabrielle Magale's elbow to try and win a penalty. Amy, all yours. I mean, have you ever, have you ever seen anything |
| 1:01.3 | quite, I thought I've been watching football many, many years. I'm not sure headbutts |
| 1:07.1 | quite the right description. It was a kind of slow-mo sort of, it was like a dance move. |
| 1:14.0 | You know. |
| 1:14.5 | He was moving. |
| 1:15.2 | Like I'm talking about sort of like, you know, weird. |
| 1:18.9 | Contemporary dance. |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.3 | Contemporary dance. |
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