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Arsenal Get Humbled

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Newcastle's 2-0 win over Arsenal to advance to the Carabao Cup Final and discuss what went wrong for Mikel Arteta's side. Then, the guys looks ahead to Liverpool-Tottenham and pick who will face Newcastle in the Final. Plus, a look at Real Madrid's and Bayer Leverkusen's late-game heroics in the Copa Del Rey and DFB Pokal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody into the ESPN FC Studios for this, the latest edition of the show,

0:09.4

alongside Craig Burley, Shaka Hislop. I'm Sebastian Salazar. Great to have you with us. We got lots

0:13.7

to get to, but let's start in England. Carabao Cup, semifinal, second leg between Arsenal and Newcastle.

0:20.1

Newcastle came in with a 2-0 lead on aggregate, and they would double it.

0:24.3

Four-nothing winners on aggregate.

0:27.0

Jacob Murphy scoring in the first half to make it 1-0-0 Newcastle.

0:30.6

And then Anthony Gordon off a terrible, terrible mistake at the back for Arsenal,

0:34.8

making it 2-0-0. Newcastle then heading to the Carabao Cup final after knocking Arsenal out of the competition.

0:43.3

For more on this, we welcome into the show, a good friend and colleague and a World Cup winner in Frank LeBuff.

0:48.3

But since it's a big Newcastle victory, I feel like Chuck, I gotta start with you.

0:51.3

How good were they, I guess over the course of the 180 minutes, but specifically today?

0:54.8

Listen, I thought Newcastle again were outstanding on the day.

0:58.5

At a time where you're looking for a response or you're looking to see which Arsenal shows up,

1:03.0

given their performance results on the weekend.

1:05.9

I thought certainly at the Emirates, while Newcastle came away, winners. I thought Arsenal showed exactly

1:14.2

what they could do, but you saw nothing of it. And credit to Newcastle for the way they closed

1:19.6

down. And while, yes, David Raya has to take a huge slice of responsibility for that second goal,

1:25.0

the way Newcastle closed down, Gordon coming in from the, well, Newcastle's left-hand side,

1:31.3

cutting out any angle for Ryder to try to pass the ball,

1:34.1

so they only had one option up through the middle.

1:36.4

And then that high line of Arsenal, and Alexander, Isaac and his pace,

1:42.0

they just could not play up against it. All they had to do is

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