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The Football Reporters: Why did Gyökeres struggle on Arsenal debut?

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Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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James Olley, Mark Ogden and Rob Dawson discuss some of the biggest talking points from the opening weekend of the Premier League. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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hello and welcome to the football reporters.

0:40.3

The new Premier League season is here and some things never change.

0:44.3

A set piece goal for Arsenal, an old trap and defeat for Manchester United,

0:49.3

while Mo Salah and Erling Harland are on the score shoot once again. We're going to discuss what we learned from the opening weekend, plus what we're hearing in the chancer market, and much, much more. So we're going to start at Old Trafford, where Arsenal and Manchester United kind of picked up where they left off from last season. For Artetta, a 1-0 win from a set-piece goal, and for Amarim, another home defeat.

1:11.4

By Indir, the goalkeeper took the blame, but Amarim had a pretty strong defence of his goalkeeper in his post-match press conference, didn't you, Rob? What did you make of it? Yeah, I mean, we were both in that room for the post-match news conference. I thought it got a little bit spiky

1:25.5

a little bit tense at different

1:27.3

spells. I mean, Amarin

1:29.9

really is often I thought it got a little bit spiky and a little bit tense at different spells.

1:29.5

I mean, Amram really is often like quite tense in post-match news conferences anyway.

1:35.1

I think he's just so kind of wired from the actual game and he's been made to kind of come out and face his questions so quickly that he kind of doesn't really let his emotions or let go of his emotions before he sat down in a chair.

1:45.6

And he's actually one of the reasons why he doesn't do proper post-match debriefs with his players in the dressing room

1:50.5

because he just feels he's too emotional to do it and leaves it till the next day.

1:54.2

Obviously, he can't do that with a press conference.

1:56.4

He's got to do it.

1:57.9

He was obviously frustrated with the result.

2:04.1

The mistake has cost him the chance of any points at all on the opening day. Perhaps wasn't expecting so many questions about

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