The Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 30: September Mailbag
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Tim Stillman and Alex Ibaceta chat about Arsenal's perfect start to life under Jonas Eidevall with six wins from six games and react to the draw for the Champions League group stage and the signing of Tobin Heath. Then Tim and Alex take listener questions on who can provide back up for Vivianne Miedema, expectations for the Champions League matches against Barcelona, squad rotation, how to avoid burnout later in the season and observations on how the team has changed under Jonas Eidevall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askcast on AskBlog.com September Mailbag Edition. |
| 0:20.4 | Quite a lot to discuss since we did our August Mailbag discussion. What is there to discuss? |
| 0:26.1 | You asked, well, Arsenal have played six games, they've won all six of them, they've qualified for the Champions League group stages, |
| 0:33.1 | they've beaten Chelsea at Emirates Stadium on the opening day of the WSL, and they signed a little known player called Tobin Heath. |
| 0:42.0 | It caused quite a lot of excitement and for those that missed it I recorded a podcast with journalists from equalizer soccer, |
| 0:49.2 | Jeff Kassouf about the signing of Tobin Heath, he kind of had the story before anyone else, and he's followed Tobin's career very, very closely. |
| 0:58.2 | So a couple of weeks ago I sat down with Jeff and just we had a little bit of a chat about Tobin, but we will have more Tobin chat today, |
| 1:06.7 | as well as your questions that you submitted on Twitter to myself, Tim Stillman, sorry I should have introduced myself at the top, |
| 1:13.5 | and with me today is Evan my co-host Alex Ibasetta, Alex, how are you doing? |
| 1:18.4 | I'm pretty good, it can't be mad about six wins and six games, so it's been worse before, so. |
| 1:25.5 | Indeed, indeed, it's got that nice honeymoon period feeling to it when you get a new manager and you get some good results and you sign some big players and things like that. |
| 1:35.2 | So that's why I was really keen to do a podcast at the moment just to catch that before everyone tears their ACL, |
| 1:41.6 | and we lose three games in a row and everyone wants the manager's act. |
| 1:45.2 | Can we do that? |
| 1:47.2 | But before we dig into the mailbag and come to the listener questions, just I think three things we should really address at the top of the podcast that I wanted to ask you about really. |
| 1:59.9 | First of all, just your initial impressions I guess of life on the Yona side of Elle with six games, six wins, and to be honest, five of those games, |
| 2:09.0 | you definitely would have expected Arsenal to win, I think, but the game against Chelsea, I think, was a real, I guess a landmark for this period of the season. |
| 2:16.9 | How have you viewed life on the Yona so far and what are the things that you've kind of really picked out in this new era? |
| 2:26.2 | As you mentioned there, a lot of the games were kind of, I wouldn't say the lesser opposition, but it's those games that you would expect the team make arsenal to win. |
| 2:34.8 | And obviously against Chelsea, that was kind of the biggest test so far. But I mean, obviously six, six, six wins and six games isn't really bad at all. |
| 2:43.6 | It's mostly when you look at and look outside the result, and you look at individual players and how they're thriving, and you look at kind of the style of, because now six games later, you kind of have a very, very clear idea of what Yona's wants to do with the team. |
| 2:55.5 | And so far, I mean, I really love it. I think I like a lot more of a attack and style football, but at the same time, it has to be very intelligent football, which I think Yonos is getting really, really well. |
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