Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askast, Episode 97, with me, your host, Tim Stillman,

and our co-host, as ever, Jamie Spanger, looking back at Friday evening's 5-0 win over Brighton.

And Jamie, before we get into kind of the nuts and bolts of the game and then listener questions in the second half, I mean, that's the first comfortable WSL victory of the season.

And I think with a mixture of Arsenal's goal scoring problems

and the fact they've got a massive away game

in the Champions League on Tuesday night,

just in general, how much do you think everyone,

the players included, needed a game like Friday night?

Oh, absolutely, Tim. I think the result, the manner it was carried out in, it was something

that Arsenal were desperate for. And not only given the fact that they've been in a truffle

form recently, but just for morale, I feel like that's where they've been struggling maybe the most in some areas. So a win like that, just a solid domination at the Emirates in front of the fans.

It's exactly what the club needed.

And also, I'm very excited to be entering one of these episodes with a very positive performance to reflect on,

because it feels like I haven't quite got that yet.

So I'm excited, him. I'm excited.

Yeah, definitely. Because even the other wins, Lester was a pretty drab, 1-0. West Ham,

you know, a 2-0, but again, probably a little bit laboured. And yeah, particularly with, you know,

the reason this game's moved to Friday night was actually moved by Jonas, I believe, because of the Juventus game on the Sunday. I think, you know, Jonas and Arsenal really wanted to give

as much time as possible before that, and we've seen them do that before. And I guess another

thing I'll ask generally, because, you know, there are no questions about this. And I

understand that because I kind of think crowd discourse is running its course. But 21,000 people

inside the Emirates, or at least tickets sold. It was probably a shade under that in truth. But

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