The Preview: Arsenal vs Chelsea
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Arsenal host Chelsea in their second London derby in the space of a week.
Can the Gunners take momentum from a brilliant win at Tottenham last time out, or will Chelsea put the brakes firmly back on Arsenal’s title charge?
Host: Matt Davies-Adams
Guests: Art de Roché & Cerys Jones
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
Producers: Jay Beale & Xavi Bird
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the preview from the Athletic FC. |
| 0:08.6 | It's the show where we get you set for the weekend's Premier League action. |
| 0:12.0 | This week we're looking ahead to a potentially pivotal capital collision between Arsenal and Chelsea. |
| 0:39.1 | Win me for this one, we've got Kerris Jones back with us. Hey, DeAnd Kerris? I'm good, thank you. It's nice to be back. And it's back-to-back preview caps for Art de Roche. How you doing, Art? I'm all good. Better than last week. Hopefully that's a theme that continues Friday and spring. Yeah, we shall see Later, we're going to get into some of the other big matchups of Match Week 28. But first, let's get to our feature |
| 0:43.6 | presentation. And after successive draws in the league, Arsenal got back to winning ways |
| 0:49.1 | in thoroughly satisfactory fashion against their biggest rivals, Tottenham. Eberici, Eza, |
| 0:53.8 | once again taunting the side. He almost joined last summer. Eberici Ezer, once again, taunting the |
| 0:55.4 | side he almost joined last summer. As we've alluded to, Art, you were edgier than a U2 guitarist |
| 1:00.7 | before last week's show and after that Wolves' debacle. So just how important was that result for |
| 1:05.7 | Arsenal's title hopes and also for your own piece of mind. It was massive. I think if they |
| 1:10.6 | hadn't |
| 1:11.0 | of won that game, then this game against Chelsea would have been even more tense than it |
| 1:16.0 | could have been. And to kind of settle the nerves, I guess, and feel good about themselves |
| 1:21.4 | was a major point because it's not just the result, but the performance, especially in the |
| 1:25.9 | second half, I think, would have really |
| 1:28.0 | encouraged Mikhail Ateta to really feel like his players feel like themselves again. |
| 1:33.6 | And hopefully for them, they'll be able to kind of take that into Chelsea. |
| 1:38.3 | And obviously, they play Bright in the midweek as well. |
| 1:40.9 | So it's a big kind of block of games coming up now and they needed that |
| 1:45.5 | result and performance away at Spurs. So when they lost against Man United at the Emirates in January, |
| 1:51.6 | Mikhail Artaeta asked for fans to jump on the fun boat, which is a phrase that Kerriss didn't |
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