Episode 817: The highs and the lows
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined by Phil Costa to discuss Arsenal's 2-0 defeat to Newcastle in the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg. We chat about team selection, early problems, Martin Odegaard's miss coming just before their opening goal, uncharacteristic defensive instability, gifting them the goal which sealed the tie, and reflecting on the two legs overall and how/why the Gunners fell short in such disappointing/frustrating fashion. We also discuss the captain and his 'struggles' of late, the team heading off on a Dubai break, media coverage of Myles Lewis-Skelly in the wake of his goal against Man City, the sanitisation of the game with regards celebrations, and lots more.
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| 0:28.4 | licence together. Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog, Arscast, right here on Arsblog.com. |
| 1:01.5 | How are you? Hope you're well. |
| 1:03.4 | Thank you very much indeed. |
| 1:04.3 | As always, for being here. |
| 1:06.3 | We are recording the morning after Arsenal's 2-0 defeat away to Newcastle in the Carabaut Cup's |
| 1:12.1 | semi-final, second leg, giving Newcastle a 4-0 aggregate win over the two legs, and they go into |
| 1:19.5 | the final, waiting to see who it is they're going to face the second semifinal. |
| 1:23.9 | Second leg takes place tonight at Anfield, Liverpool, taking on Spurs, who have a 1-0 lead from the first leg going into that game. |
| 1:31.9 | So it's been a week which makes you reflect a little bit, doesn't it, on football and how it works? |
| 1:38.0 | You go from the high of beating Manchester City 5-1 on Sunday. |
| 1:42.1 | What a game, what a performance. |
| 1:48.1 | And then this. And it's not always easy to explain, although I think obviously you can look across these two games and highlight certain |
| 1:53.0 | moments, certain individuals, the squad that we have or the players that we didn't have and look |
| 1:59.1 | at those to try and understand why it is. |
| 2:01.6 | We didn't perform the way we know that Arsenal can perform and particularly this season against Newcastle. |
| 2:07.6 | We've really struggled and we haven't been able to deal with their game plan. |
| 2:11.6 | It's three games against Newcastle, three defeats against Newcastle. |
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