Episode 813 - A familiar story
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined by Harry Symeou from The Chronicles of a Gooner to look back at the 2-0 defeat to Newcastle in the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg. There's a lot of focus on what Arsenal are lacking in the final third, particularly against a team that sit deep as they did when they got 2-0 up. We discuss the variance in quality between our forwards and theirs on the night, what we can do to address it with the players we have and in the transfer market, the goals we conceded and how we could have done better, where it leaves the tie and lots more – including thoughts on the January transfer window and reports linking Tomas Rosicky to the job of Sporting Director.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog Arscast right here on Arsblog.com. |
| 0:27.6 | How are you? Hope you're well. Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here. |
| 0:32.0 | Chances are this morning you're feeling a little disappointed, disheartened, frustrated after Arsenal lost 2-0 to Newcastle |
| 0:40.9 | in the first leg of our Carabaut Cup semi-final at the Emirates last night, perfectly reasonable |
| 0:47.1 | feelings to have, I would say. It's not quite the same old story, but it's definitely a |
| 0:52.3 | familiar story where we don't make the most of the |
| 0:55.8 | chances that we have and the opposition by virtue of good fortune, good finishing, or more |
| 1:01.6 | quality up front, as I think is very much the case with last night's game, get the goals that |
| 1:07.6 | help them win the game. And we're left the morning after with lots of |
| 1:12.1 | questions about what we have, what we don't have, what we don't use, why this kind of in-game |
| 1:19.8 | scenario where we struggle to break down a team that plays with a low block, whether that's |
| 1:25.6 | at nil-nil-nill- down, is such an issue for us, creativity, |
| 1:30.8 | goal scoring, being clinical, all of those things. |
| 1:34.1 | How do we fix it? |
| 1:35.1 | How do we fix it with the players that we have? |
| 1:37.2 | How do we fix it with the transfer market? |
| 1:40.2 | All of those are perfectly reasonable questions. |
| 1:43.2 | So we're going to get into that, and I'm not saying we're going to provide all the solutions, So we're going to get into that. |
| 1:44.4 | And I'm not saying we're going to provide all the solutions, but we're going to have a good conversation about it all. |
| 1:49.9 | And with me to do that from the Chronicles of a Gooner podcast, it's Harry, how are you? |
| 1:55.4 | I'm good, Andrew. |
| 1:56.3 | I've been better, a little bit disappointed with what we saw last night. |
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