The Preview: Arsenal vs Aston Villa
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Preview on The Athletic FC, where this week our main focus is Arsenal vs Aston Villa.
After their impressive victory at Stamford Bridge can Unai Emery take his side level on points with his former employers or will Mikel Arteta get revenge just three weeks after Arsenal's 2-1 defeat at Villa Park.
Carl Anka and Stu James join Matt Davies-Adams to reflect on the festive action so far and look ahead to Tuesday's clash before turning their attention to the fixtures elsewhere including Sunderland vs Manchester City, Chelsea vs Bournemouth, and Brentford vs Spurs.
Host: Matt Davies-Adams
With: Carl Anka & Stu James
Executive Producers: Abi Paterson & Adey Moorhead
Producer: Jay Beale
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the preview from the Athletic FC. |
| 0:09.4 | It's the show where we get you up to speed with the festive Premier League action past and future. |
| 0:14.5 | This week we're rounding up and looking ahead to Arsenal versus Aston Villa. |
| 0:23.3 | And joining me today, we've got two preview heavyweights. |
| 0:26.4 | Hello, Carl Anka. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello. |
| 0:28.3 | And Stu James is back with this too. |
| 0:29.9 | How you doing, Stu? |
| 0:30.7 | Good morning, Matt. |
| 0:31.7 | Merry Christmas, too. |
| 0:32.9 | Yeah, likewise. |
| 0:33.6 | I think we can still just about say that on the 29th of December, but from tomorrow, |
| 0:37.4 | it's going to be happy New Year all the way. Right, later in the show. Likewise, I think we can still just about say that on the 29th of December, but from tomorrow, |
| 0:40.0 | it's going to be Happy New Year all the way. |
| 0:44.5 | Right, later in the show, we'll get into some of the other big matchups of Match Week 19, |
| 0:47.1 | but first, let's get to our feature presentation. |
| 0:50.8 | And no home comforts for Aston Villa. |
| 0:55.1 | In fact, all the teams play either successive home or away games. |
| 0:55.9 | Is that an advantage? |
| 0:56.8 | We'll see, I guess. |
| 1:00.4 | Both these sides go into this one off the back of two-one wins. |
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