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Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly, the Carabal Cup semi-finals, Arsenal win at

Stamford Bridge, but the tie is still alive after two second half goals from Alethandro

Garnacho. Not a great night for Robert Sanchez. We've said that before. The real fun was at St James's Park the night before as we all stared at the legs of Pope, Harland and Tao for five and a half minutes. There was a football match either side of that VAR decision, and Turkey's injury time goal gives Man City a big advantage. And then to Afcon, let's hope the final between Senegal and host Morocco is marginally better than last night's semifinals. Meanwhile, Sid joins us to talk about Jabby Alonzo's demise at the Bernabau. His successor didn't have a great start last night, losing to second-tier Alba Chatee and the Coppidel Ray, the best scenes anywhere last night. There's a Premier League preview, the Manchester Derby, a nice start for Michael Carrick. We'll do all that, plus your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Barry Glendanick, welcome. Hi, Max. Hello, Dan Bardell. Hello, Max. And, bonjour, Sa va, Philippe O'Clair. It's a very well, Max Rajden. Thank you. Bonjour. To Stanford Bridge, then, Chelsea, 2, Arsenal 3, Liamres, Sr's first game in charge at the bridge. And I guess, Philippe, given how depleted Chelsea were and how surprisingly strong Arsenal starting 11 was, it was quite a good, close game. I mean, Arsenal had chances to go 4- one that can be very different, but it's nice that it's in the balance. It is. It was actually a very good game. So contrasting semifinals between the Afghan and the Carrabo Cup, I would say. It was not quite exactly the same kind of sport. Oh, man. Yeah, we'll get to that. We'll talk about that or we won't. And I think that the difference in squad strength was demonstrated when you look at the bench that Arsenal had for this game, which was just completely crazy.

David Royale, Jesus, Eze, Martin Elinnell, Norga, Madweke, Havers, Louis-Cellier, and Mikhail Marino.

That's the bench.

So, obviously, yes, they were up against a very serious Arsenal team.

I think the one thing that, I'm a bit surprised, though, that when I read the reaction on various

social networks or even in some reports, it's almost as if Chelsea had won, and they haven't.

Let's make that clear.

They could have lost by a much greater, the margin of defeat could have been much greater.

She looked at the XG actually.

It was 2.7 for Arsenal and 0.6 for Chelsea, which shows a bit how, what we all felt during the game,

that Arsenal had many chances that they could have done much better with.

But I think there would be loads of reasons that this satisfaction in both camps.

I mean, what I was impressed with is the way that this young Chelsea team reacted when they found themselves in a pretty bad situation

where you thought this could really get away from them completely.

I also look slick, they look good, they look well-organized, everything,

as threatening on set pieces as ever.

But they didn't buckle.

And in fact, I mean, one thing that really struck me was the first garnetcher goal.

If you look at what actually leads to it, three Arsenal players lose 50-50s in the middle

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