The Preview: Arsenal vs Man City

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer,, Premier League, Champions League, World Cup

4.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Arsenal and Manchester City take to Wembley for the Carabao Cup final.

Will Arsenal pick up their first major trophy since 2020, or will Pep Guardiola get his hands on his fifth League Cup with the Citizens?

Host: Matt Davies-Adams

Guests: Tim Spiers & Cerys Jones

Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead

Producers: Jay Beale & John Rogers

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC
0:03.1	Welcome to the preview from the Athletic FC
0:08.4	It's the show where we get you set for the weekends football
0:11.0	This week we're looking ahead to the Carabal Cup final
0:13.7	It's Arsenal versus Manchester City
0:20.5	And on board today we've got two previews stores.
0:23.6	Hello, Tim Spears.
0:24.7	Hello, how are you, Matt?
0:26.4	Really good, thank you.
0:27.6	Yes, very good indeed.
0:29.0	Kerris James is back with us too.
0:30.6	Poor Kerrish, you have to do far too many podcasts with me these days.
0:33.5	But hopefully you're in a better sort of mood than usual today, Matt.
0:37.0	Those messages being dropped into the Chelsea pod group chat after a Nottingham Forest result,
0:43.2	which doesn't normally happen.
0:45.1	It surely does not.
0:46.2	But yes, I'll do all I can to Crowbar in some chat about the wonderful victory for Forest.
0:51.7	Yeah, your Open League quarterfinals.
0:53.0	Looking forward to those very much indeed.
0:56.3	Later, we'll get into some Premier League action taking place this weekend because there's some
0:59.6	big games in that. But first, let's get to our feature presentation. And it is the two sides
1:06.3	battling it out for the Premier League title going head to head in the Carabelle Cup final on Sunday.
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