Should Arsenal be disappointed by Sunderland draw?
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to reflect on Arsenal’s 2-2 draw away to Sunderland on Saturday.
The panel reflect on the difficulties Sunderland posed, Arsenal’s much improved second half showing, the lack of substitutions used by Mikel Arteta, Zubimendi’s impressive performance, the uncharacteristic mistakes made by the defence and the two excellent goals scored by Saka and Trossard.
Plus, they look at the title race as a whole and the shape of the team going into the international break.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | The only way to score is of course to play |
| 0:10.0 | with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:16.1 | This is Hand-Bake-off, the Arsenal podcast, |
| 0:18.0 | brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:54.2 | Well, we drew two-two away at Sunderland on Saturday, so obviously the title race is over. It was a great dream, wouldn't it, really? We really enjoyed that feeling, but we'll find something else to do now. So I'm just stepping into the narrative. Do you know what I mean? Anyway, I'm joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good morning. Hi, yeah. Good morning. Morning. It was so gutting to be like, it's season's over, isn't it? I mean, it really, I don't know. I was hoping for a bit more from them this year, to be honest, with the money they spent. Yeah. Done, isn't it? yeah, yeah. It is the international break. |
| 0:57.6 | I have to say, normally with international breaks, I'm like, oh, for you sake. |
| 1:01.3 | But this time, I'm feeling like this might have come at a right time for us. |
| 1:08.0 | In fact, James wrote an article to that effect for the athletic, which you can read on the website. |
| 1:11.8 | But we were thinking maybe Michel Alteta deserves a little treat. |
| 1:16.8 | I mean, four points clear at this international break, at this juncture, I think he'd bitten your hand off, maybe not. |
| 1:18.6 | Saturday morning, he would have asked for a bit more, but we'll take that. |
| 1:22.9 | But so I think he's done an absolutely amazing job and the team have done an amazing job. |
| 1:27.1 | So a little treat for them. |
| 1:28.8 | Amy suggested I sort of take him to a day rave, which I think it would be weird in all sorts |
| 1:36.0 | of ways, to be honest, to you. |
| 1:37.3 | But as we were saying before the podcast started, I have got some moves. |
| 1:41.0 | Maybe Mikhail will admire them or something. Adrian. I know. First of all, I'd query whether it's an actual treat or not, going to a day rave with Stoney. Is that a treat? I don't know. Anywhere with Stoney. Yeah, this is true. Yeah, sorry. But I can't believe I talked about myself in the third person there as well. |
| 2:02.1 | Stoney doesn't like that. |
| 2:06.0 | But we got on his suggestions for Mikkel. |
| 2:11.8 | A little treat for him as a reward or just something restful or something like that. |
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