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S1-E92 : Brighton Crossover!
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On todays episode of the Daily Arsenal podcast, Jamie and Matt make the journey over to the Daily Brighton podcast, to defend the club in what is a fun and fierce discussion!
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Introduction and Welcome
00:00:02
Speaker
every club, every day. The Global Sports Podcast Network. Hello and Happy New Year. Welcome to the Daily Brighton Podcast.
Crossover Excitement
00:00:16
Speaker
It's a crossover time. It's crossover time. You can see there's Bearman. Everyone's here. It's crazy. it's a We've got a house party going on right now. um As you can guess, it is the crossover between Brighton and Arsenal. Obviously, we've done it before with um Esmond and I can't remember his name either, but yeah, all good. it was yeah it It was pretty good. It was a lot of um taking the mic. So I just want to introduce everyone.
Contributor Introductions
00:00:45
Speaker
Obviously, you know, the general Jamie G. What's up? oh and that always good We've got the Danny Welbeck Enjoyer. Bless. How are you? Yeah, good. I'm so happy we've got three Brighton Podcasters versus two Arsenal Podcasters to help defend these corners.
00:01:00
Speaker
and and yeah and then we have Jamie how are you my friend yeah yeah all good thank you all good how are yous not too bad mate not too bad and last but certainly not least Matt how are you sir yeah very good thank you very good how are you all good here we're all good're looking good right so A little bit of admin, let's just clean this up before we get into the nitty-gritty of it.
Match Recap: Arsenal vs Brighton
00:01:27
Speaker
Arsenal vs Brighton, obviously the last game was a one-all draw. Brighton's last five, it's not looking good, Brett, I can't lie. One loss and four draws, it's not good at all. Arsenal's last five,
00:01:39
Speaker
We are winning one draw, four wins. That's what you lot love to see. We don't really massively care, but it's not looking good for us in that sense. And in the head-to-head, this is just the last five. One draw, Arsenal have won three times, and Brighton have won once.
Injury Updates
00:01:54
Speaker
In terms of injuries, Brighton will be without Cardioglu, Ferguson, Welbeck, Milner, Hintrowood, and potentially Matt Swiffer, not 100% sure on that one. And Arsenal will, of course, be without Tim Burber, because he's suspended, Ben White.
00:02:07
Speaker
Bakaya Sakha, which is the big one, Sterling, and Tomi Asu, but I didn't even know Tomi Asu still played for Arsenal at this point. Anyway, Jamie.
00:02:18
Speaker
How has your season gone so far?
Arsenal's Title Race Strategy
00:02:20
Speaker
We know that you're in the midst of a title race. How is it going? I'll be truthfully honest. I think I speak on behalf of the boys. We we kind of a couple of weeks back said that we were not going to talk about the title. We were just going to let the season kind of just play its course. And look, if we can go in, if we can maybe start putting pressure on Liverpool, then, you know, maybe maybe maybe that discussion can be had another day. Look, at the end of the day, it's another game. It's just another game to go and play and, you know, just to go and pile pressure on Liverpool, but also to kind of fear to just separate the gap as well from ah from the teams that are just below us, because I mean, the Premier League table, it's not what any
Surprising Premier League Standings
00:03:01
Speaker
of us expected. No, not at all. Not in the forest or up there, Bournemouth or up there. So, yeah, weird do you saying that. Yeah, I know. And then Man United and Tottenham are obviously I think they're both in the bottom half, aren't they?
00:03:14
Speaker
Bottom half, yeah. On a word of a time. Let him stay there. Matt, it been for you, mate? Yeah, not too bad. I mean, I think a mixed perspective, as Jamie said, we discussed a few weeks ago almost like the title talk was a bit pointless. But the main reason for me why it was pointless was because for me, you know, like Liverpool see a top top side, but it's about Arsenal doing what Arsenal can do. And the more Arsenal drop points, the more it doesn't matter what Liverpool do when there's such a huge gap already. So I think now you've seen obviously mentioned the last five are unbeaten and the last 12 are unbeaten.
00:03:52
Speaker
Things are looking a lot more bright. I've been very pleased to how we've handled Nobukai Osaka so far. And in general, I think we've had a fixture this from hell, to be honest. You know, we've not had the fortune in our side in quite a few different manners. And unfortunately for us, we're obviously quite a few points behind Liverpool, but obviously we're in January now.
Arsenal's Challenging January Schedule
00:04:12
Speaker
and January is a massive month for Arsenal so obviously beating Brentford, beating Ipswich, beating whoever else, now having Brighton three days later is a big one and it'll be it'll be a tough one but yeah in general I'm pretty happy whilst knowing that we very much need more offensive firepower but Gabriel Jesus might have slightly turned Arsenal season around to be honest but yeah.
00:04:35
Speaker
Well, the things that we'd never think we'd hear where Gabrielle has just changing parts of the season around. Do you know what? Christmas Miracle, we even know Christmas is gone, but Christmas Miracle. Jamie, um I'm going to go to, well, Jamie G, I'm going to go to you here um with About Brighten Season. ah Bless I will come to you eventually, you're not just there for show. Jamie G, what what do you think about our season so far?
Brighton's Season Analysis
00:05:02
Speaker
Well, our season has been a tale of two halves. We started off so brightly as we kind of, I mean, I hate to say it, we kind of called it in our preview, didn't we? Preview of the season, we said, under a new manager, people won't really know his ideas. We might start off strong. There will be a patch where we don't get the results.
00:05:25
Speaker
Unfortunately for us, that patch has been against the worst teams in the league. ah We started off it's against the good teams in the league, like the Arsenal's, like Tottenham, like Man City, like Man United even at that time. Good teams in the league. Yeah, at that time, maybe we could have thrown them in there. That was the second game, I'm pretty sure. Exactly. We were still understanding how bad they were going to be. But we started off, you know, strong. We all actually... I hate to say we might have cursed our own team, but...
00:05:59
Speaker
might throw teeth We were calling for a title charge, or at least I was. Bless was being a bit more subdued with a Champions League push. I was cussing everyone out. Every yeah yeah every pod will yeah every review pod, we were buzzing about the result. And yeah, Karma, yeah quite frankly, that's it. And the last eight results have been just dire, to be honest. But we have kind of turned a leaf.
00:06:28
Speaker
showing a bit more well I say turn the leaf we still can't buy a win but we've turned a leaf in terms of we're looking a bit better in the draws that's that's the positive I can take and bless I'm gonna go to you here but not about our season so far because I feel like um Guerra has um summed up quite nicely actually. We're gonna go, we're gonna flash back to, I don't know what month it would have been, when does the season start? In August. So it would have been in August, right? Or maybe the month after, whatever. Yeah, so bless, we were all at mine and we got our Mackie's order in and we watched the game. What do you think of it?
00:07:12
Speaker
Yeah, it was ah is an interesting game. I thought we um ah thought we played really well, to be honest, and I was surprised that we didn't sit back. We we tried to play. um Obviously at the Emirates, it's always going to be difficult, but we did try and play and um got some really good chances. We saw mistakes from Dunk and we saw good stuff from Dunk.
00:07:36
Speaker
Obviously the big controversial point in the game that sort of changed the game, sort of changed the pattern of the game into our favor. And as Jamie G probably read out some of the stats of that game because he continues to do that. I don't know why. it was Was it again 22 shots? Was it Jamie? We had 22 shots to their 11, 64% possession to their 36. Off the top of the dome or are you looking at at football? That was on top of the dome. I was about to get up the XG as well. I've actually memorised. I've not memorised the XG of a game.
00:08:13
Speaker
Good thing I didn't memorise the XG, they had a bit more. so well let them ah okay Right, you spoke about a moment there, Bless, which, to be fair, was spoken about for probably a good two, three weeks after, I reckon.
Controversial Red Card Incident
00:08:27
Speaker
um Spoken about or they cried about it. they did they did um mean it was There was a bit of crying, there was a little bit. but constant crime Jamie Matt this is to be found throwing it to both of you because obviously you might have differing opinions what did you think about that whole um the rice bread card and uh Joel Veltman trying to boot him to Tottenham Stadium gone that i I'll let you sort it gone
00:08:53
Speaker
The thing is I'd love to be neutral and I'd love to be like really unbiased and not you know feel like oh it could have gone either way or you know oh we shouldn't have done that but the more you watch it the more you're in just disbelief that he's decided to send the player off for doing effectively nothing. You know, Veltman's very clever. He knows what he's doing. He's tried to get on with the game really quickly, even though there's no outball. The ball's moving as well, so that goes against the law, too. um You know, he's trying to kick the ball really quickly in the 48th minute, which Rice is going to, you know, time waste because one little up in the 48th minute is probably quite ah quite a smart time to time waste. And yeah, Veltman in his own corner flag, essentially, tries to take the ball really quickly, even though, as I say, there's nobody there. And
00:09:37
Speaker
If you can't tell, I'm still i'm still pretty upset about it. because yeah it just yeah Unfortunately, just it's it's one of those things I mentioned earlier that Arsenal haven't had the fortune and I'm completely fine to admit when Arsenal just haven't done enough to win games or when they haven't done enough in general in a game or where they've gone wrong.
00:09:57
Speaker
but that game for me was the definition of a red card not just changing the flow of the game and completely ruining it for Arsenal but also the fact that he was sent off for the Spurs game which somehow Arsenal managed to to to win that one comfortably enough at Spurs but that could have been another catastrophic thing and yeah unfortunately I just I think that that moment really changed not even Arsenal season but like in general that was a really damaging one for Arsenal.
00:10:29
Speaker
One question I have is's is... mate. He was clocking to... He was going like that. Yeah, mate, he was waiting, mate. Go on, go on. One question I have, I mean, I've just... of In this, it before our preview, we were looking I was looking through all the results that Arsenal had. I noticed they hadn't had a red card for a while, so do you reckon your players have learnt not to cheat and kick the ball away, or? And time wasted, or? I mean, just wondering.
00:10:58
Speaker
I'm afraid. I'm not, I'm not, um I'm not much of a nibbler, I'm afraid. So I hate to break it to them quite. Jamie, can I get a nibble for you please? At the end of the day, you know, but what what happens happened and look at the end of the day where we're going to be out for a bit of revenge now. So, you know, at the end of the day, <unk> we're going to go to the Amex. And I think the red card has kind of like shaped Arsenal in a way because we've been a bit more Like, we we still play our football, but we know not to just be rash now. You know, the Brighton game kind of showed it. ah City, in a way, also showed it at the Etihad. So I think them kind of games have kind of really shaped us in a way just to just play our football and not be too rash. Well, I don't want to Bournemouth. Oh, Bournemouth. I mean, I was still a bit divided with that because I didn't watch the game because I was away. But when I got back and saw the highlights, I was like,
00:11:55
Speaker
was a bit like, well, it was a bit in two minds. At first I was a bit like, I don't know, maybe, you know, maybe Saliba didn't deserve to get a red, but then I was like, would Gabriel have got back on time? It was really, ah I was really divided over it to be fair. ah Bless, I need to get your, I know we are, this is ah a bit of a longer, a longer podcast, but bless, I need to get your um your opinion on this one as well.
00:12:21
Speaker
um with the ah the ball just just ah You know what, we'll start we'll start with, um we'll start with the sort of just in general, the whole red card, because obviously we're talking about now the whole thing of red cards, and because it was like free and a pretty like quite quick in session. so Yeah, i'm I'm pretty neutral, I think. um the ah one against Brighton against us. I thought that was a bit harsh, but I was loving it to be fair. I got up like it was a goal. It is what it is. There's a legal one. I thought that was, I thought that was a definite red card. I would say that's the one that as well, to be fair, I mean, Trussard as well, but I feel like that's just stupidity more than anything. Yeah. Yeah. That one's obvious. But again, the, the officials are not consistent with it because I think it was Al Pedro at the Emirates. He's just,
00:13:12
Speaker
smashed it down the line and that was quite blatant and nothing happened. umm I'm sorry but how we didn't get yellow carded I mean I sat there screaming and telling I was like right so you can give me a red card for a different slight touch but for someone to just boot the ball away and not get yellow carded for it.
00:13:29
Speaker
And it made it even worse when he went and scored. But again, I still think that Jelpedro goal was down to Thomas Partey. He let him run past and I just thought if you just matched him stride for stride, it might have been a different story.
00:13:43
Speaker
I do think though with just the last thing on like the the obviously the decision on the day, I think it kind of just goes to show everything wrong with the Premier League at times or at the minute in terms of the refereeing side of things, because I think if you look at that red card, the only reason that was kind of given is because the Premier League want to stamp their mark.
00:14:04
Speaker
like they do every season on something different. But instead of following through with it the whole season, they wait for a team to be a guinea pig. That team also got screwed over twice, for by the way, um in that regard. And it's like, I think with refereeing decisions, if if a referee gives a red card, you can always, or gives a goal, or gives a whatever, you can always find a way to justify it. There's always going to be a way you can justify it.
00:14:27
Speaker
but what they you know obviously as I say asked them were the guinea pigs on that occasion and I think just a question I want to pose to you guys on the last thing I've seen the refereeing side because I'm sure um you're a bit bored of uh of hearing the uh the refereeing whatnot and that dictating football talk but I think one thing for me which is so wrong is petulance is and like
Premier League Rule Changes
00:14:49
Speaker
minimal offenses is even is almost seen as more of a red card offense than breaking someone's leg or trying to hurt players or anything. You know, I remember you guys got a really soft yellow as well, red, sorry, with ah against Bournemouth as well. I think it was with ah with Carlos Beliba. And then you see players stamp on players or go over the top of players or elbow players or do XYZ and don't get red. So I just wanted to get your ah your opinions on that as well.
00:15:15
Speaker
Do you know what? i'm actually gonna Even I'm hosting, I'm going to put my two pens, whatever the saying is. I'm going to put it in right now. um Basically, what you're saying about the whole sort of pensions thing, I feel like um they focused a lot on um how much football is actually being paid played in the course of 90 minutes.
00:15:35
Speaker
So that's hold the multi ball thing is literally that's just for that. Like to be able to have the ball in play more and to for people that are watching the game to actually be able to watch more football than just the ball being out of play for X amount of time.
00:15:47
Speaker
whatever I'm sort of neither here nor there on it really. um But with in terms of like the sort of like delaying the restart, that's the only reason I think they're stamping it down is because that sort of like their highlight at the moment is to sort of be like, okay, if you're going to sort of stop us from doing what we're really focused on doing at the moment, which is increasing the amount of time the ball's in play, then I think, ah don't get me wrong, I think it's stupid. like jim if i'm If I was to come from a neutral like perspective, I'd think it's stupid. um If it was to happen to us, we'd all disagree with it 100%. But like it's funny that you touch on the sort of like more dangerous aspect. In the last two games, well,
00:16:30
Speaker
No, not against Aston Villa, but in the last three games, we've had two decisions which went in our favour, which are actually terrible refereeing decisions. So you had a Stupignan in, I think, the West Ham game. I don't know who that was on, um but... Kilman, I think. Yeah, that was a terrible challenge. His shimp has literally wrapped around his leg. um That could have been a broken leg, a hundred percent. And then the Jon Pedro elbow, which he didn't connect with, is literally insanity because we've gone onto the podcast and said if he actually hits him, he's turned around and looked at him before he's even swung the elbow.
00:17:04
Speaker
he's going to get banned for like probably like a really lengthy ban. But to then go to VAR and then be like, nah, it's okay, just because you didn't hit him, even though he definitely had the intention to hit him, he just couldn't hit a barn door at the time. I feel like those sort of things is where the Premier League is going wrong, like you said, in terms of sort of looking at these sort of things that go ah with what they're sort the trend at the time of what they're going for, as opposed to actually player safety, et cetera. So that's sort of what ah what I would put into that conversation. But what I will do is, let's actually talk about football.
Arsenal's Key Players and Strategies
00:17:43
Speaker
So after this ad, in the next segment, we are going to talk a little bit more about Arsenal and sort of where the dangers are, who the key men and where they can hurt us. So we will see you after this ad.
00:17:55
Speaker
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00:18:25
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to segment two of the Daily Brighton podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. We are joined by the Arsenal boys. We've got Jamie G and bless Jamie P and Matt. So Jamie, Matt, where are you sort of seeing the danger? Obviously you're missing your star boy. Where are sort of the, where do you think you're going to hurt us? What do you think? How do you see the game panning out?
00:18:52
Speaker
I think for us, I see it panning out more in, again, I think it's this it might be just down the middle and it might even just be down the wings as well. I know that our right side is more stronger than our left side, but I still think if you've got Martinelli or even Trossard who, to be fair, let's be honest, Trossard loves to turn up.
00:19:15
Speaker
for Brighton, ah likes to put on a bit of a show. So I'd like to hope that, you know, if we're having a front three, I'd like to see Trossard on the left, Martinelli on the right, or Ethan Wannieri, who has been phenomenal this season, um and Gabriel J. Zeus up top. I mean,
00:19:32
Speaker
um I'd be quite happy with that. But um yeah, I think it's done it's either going to come down from the wings and it's just going to be trying to get into the box. Obviously set pieces, that they're a big thing for us. And, you know, you know ah Thomas Frank briefly mentioned it in his press conference before the game saying, oh, well, we know how to deal with set pieces. And Well, turns out you didn't. So so look it's going to be an interesting game. Going to the Amex is never easy for Arsenal fans. It's never easy. I've always seen Brighton as Brighton away has been one of them fixtures where we've really struggled to grind a result out. I mean, last season um was not bad. I think the season before wasn't too bad. I mean, I'd like to hope that we can
00:20:19
Speaker
I was saying to the boys, we we just need to go on a run. We need to be consistent here as well. And what about yourself, Matt? Yeah, I think I feel quite good, like generally going into the game. I think the players who, I mean, I think blood believers are a fantastic player, for example. But I think Arsenal have rice in that regard for a player who covers a lot of ground and his integral in the middle. And He didn't play against Brentford um because I think he was ill or wasn't quite fit enough to, but you don't anticipate he'll start in midfield against Brighton, particularly with Urie and Timber out, which I think is big. I think two big things which the game will come down to is how well Arsenal play out of Brighton's press. ah I feel like because it's at Brighton, Brighton are quite inclined to probably be on the front foot and take the game to Arsenal, which I think
00:21:08
Speaker
will be quite a benefit for Arsenal. I think you look at that Palace game, once Palace got quite open, although we're not the best team in transition, I feel like we're pretty deadly. And I think the game state almost will be quite important in that regard that Brighton push up on us, try over commit in the press, leave gaps in behind and Arsenal know obviously or they trust themselves defensively and the defensive numbers recently have been back to where they've been last season which is really pleasing and I think the timing of fixtures is really important and I think Arsenal play bright and
Brighton's Tactical Approach
00:21:43
Speaker
in a really good moment. As I say, timber obviously being out is unfortunate, Havertz might be back, I'm not entirely sure and SAC obviously being out is
00:21:50
Speaker
very unfortunate but that's the reality of of the situation and I think obviously Brighton are a really good side but they're in a tough moment I think they will try you know Well, it'd be interesting, I guess, given Brighton's form, if they maybe go a tiny bit more conservative against Arsenal. But I feel like because it is at home, I'd be intrigued, obviously, to hear um your guys' perspective on that. But because it is at home, I feel like they'll try to take the game a bit more to Arsenal, press up higher. And I think a player like Lewis Skelly will be really integral to just keeping the ball under pressure and
00:22:24
Speaker
going from there. And I think Brighton in the transition side of things would be pretty dangerous. And if Arsenal can keep them at arm's length, I think that would be pretty decisive. Jamie G, we're speaking about sort of game stay and sort of how you see us play. And we mentioned a bit of maybe a conservative play when we filmed not that long ago, obviously spoke quite a bit about what I expect. So what do you think?
00:22:54
Speaker
Yeah, we were we we've it's funny that you shot you say that Matt ah because we're not too sure how we're going to line up either in terms of do we show Arsenal that respect where we allow them to have the ball because one thing Arsenal do well is press high and we spoke about this on the preview podcast and they press high and they have their defenders so high up that it just kind of suffocates you in as blessed kept on saying um and that's where do show them that respect and just kind of try and defend for our lives then we play our pacey players to try and do something on the counter or while you're at home and like Hertzler likes to try and do and like likes to play normally do we
00:23:40
Speaker
do something that we are good at, which is playing out from the black, and playing out from the back, and in build-up play. Yeah, I know what you two are thinking. ah Playing out from the back and in build-up play. um And we are very competent at that. It's just whether the Arsenal press yeah actually manages to I guess, tackle us high up the pitch and actually put pressure on. So I'm still um unsure what hurts that we'll try and do. I'm unsure what I would try and do and how we're going to win. Because to be honest, um ah I know this is killing the next segment, but I'm not too optimistic, I would say. I think it could be a draw, but I know we'll we'll get on to our score predictions later. But yeah, it's an interesting in one of how we actually do play.
00:24:35
Speaker
and Jamie P, if I can call you Jamie P. yeah um In terms of Brighton, where are you sort of looking at the areas where it would be massively key for either a team to win if they want to sort of get the upper hand in this game? To be honest with you, I've always looked at your attacking and your midfield options. i mean One player that you've not really touched on is Minto.
00:24:58
Speaker
and he's been and you know when I when I watched him at the Emirates I thought wow like you know Brighton have got a gem of a player in him um I mean for you guys it's unfortunate that Welbeck's not going to be there because I mean this guy this guy just like he has a thing for scoring against his old teams and I mean that that worries me but thank goodness he's uh he is out um but i think gel pedro for me is that one player that is going to be really difficult to to really manage because as i touched on before you know partay you know partay couldn't even match him but matches run and that was exactly how you guys managed to equalize against us um and i do believe and i really hope regardless of what the starting 11 is on
00:25:48
Speaker
ah for the game, I just really hope that Arsenal kind of look back at the home fixture and be like, right, well, this is where we've we've gone wrong. And I also think that, you know, going back to the whole red card situation, it will be ah it will be a momentum to kind of be like, right, we we need to kind of just keep our heads here, just keep playing our football and just keep doing what we need to do. And then, you know, ah we we'll just have to see what happens. But it's going to be a very cagey game, I can tell you that.
00:26:17
Speaker
I think one other problem as well, I just want to very quickly say as well, with um thinking about like Brighton and obviously you saying it's a cagey game, is even going back to that City game, that first 30 or so minutes was all man City. I think if Arsenal were clinical, they could not finish the game early on, so to speak. But I think it'll be interesting if Brighton are that off the pace in that first 30 minutes or if they do go a goal behind how do they react likewise for Arsenal but I think that game against Brentford just recently is a massive like positive going into this one essentially going to really difficult away ground winning every duel not giving them a sniff and then also coming back from adversity being 1-0 down which is the first time Arsenal have done that since Aston Villa I think in the 4-2 game ah so I think that's just another another big thing to add.
00:27:06
Speaker
and then So, bless, what what about you, mate? so Obviously, we just spoke about sort of like where you think the key battles are. In terms of us sort stopping them, where do you think the key battles lie? yeah Again, ah'll I'll go back to how we approach it. and If we do sit deep, um we've spoken a lot about set pieces. If we do sit deep, I think that invites a lot of set pieces with players heading it away. um so It's just finding a good balance of being wary,
00:27:34
Speaker
um that they are a good team, they are a good passing team, but also we can't afford to sit deep and just give them that respect because that will that will invite crosses, that will invite set pieces. So we need to find a good balance of um how we can sort of press high and get at them but also be quite smart in game and you know drop back if we have to. um one One area I really see us sort of being successful with if he does start and I know Jamie you touched on it, Minthe, I'm an absolutely massive fan of him and I spoke very highly of him ah
00:28:11
Speaker
at the start of the season, but he hasn't really kicked on as much as I thought he would. um Yeah, he's still a young player, so you you never know what's going to come up next. But yeah, he's very aggressive um in the way he sort of attacks the fullback. He's very, very quick and he's quite comfortable left or right. It's just that sort of end product hasn't really um come through quite at the moment so it's very interesting I think if he does start it will cause a few issues especially whoever plays left back for us I've noticed likes to go into midfield and that sort of pattern of play that does leave a bit of space out there and although Gabrielle's very good at sweeping over and coming over and cleaning it up
00:28:56
Speaker
I think we can, yeah, I think we can hopefully Gabriel has a bit of an off day. We can get past it as well.
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00:29:03
Speaker
It's a big, eyes but, um, yeah, that's what, I think that's where we can go. that We need to drag them around a little bit more so that it creates space for Jean Pedro as well. Yeah. So anyway, we are going to go, we're going to hear from our partners at Zancaster and then we are going to go onto the Brighton segment, the final segment. So we will see you on the flips on this ad.
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And we are back on the Daily Brighton podcast for our final segment.
Brighton's Scoring Struggles
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We are going to be speaking about Brighton. How can we hurt Arsenal? Jamie G, I'm coming to you, mate. How can we do it?
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Can we do it? Can we do it is the question. ah Well, if we do play on the front foot, like we are kind of known for, and if we can play out from the back, like we have done all season against whichever team we have come up against, we suck in front of goal. And that is my biggest fear. Like in the final third, i mean it's tough to watch. I'm not going to lie. We move the ball.
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in and around not really much causing much threat for the other team. We give teams, we're so slow at getting shots off that and we give teams the chance to get bodies behind the ball. And when you do that against Arsenal, that's going to be easy pickings for them. I mean, we couldn't even really score against it. Was it that we just played Brentford? ah Yeah, Ben, me and- Yeah, sorry, last game before that. Forgot that one. We've all been the same this one. But yeah, Brentford, we struggled to by just every shot. We had so much of the ball. We had so many shots. We lived pretty much and lived in the final third and we just couldn't get shots off because they just kept on throwing balls, but ah bodies behind the ball.
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And that's what the trouble was. I feel like this is going to be that times 10 if we do get in around the box. So we need to take our chances. We need to just just how he how simple football is. Shoot more. I mean, I don't know what that's... I don't know whether the Bryant players know. That's kind of how you score goals. And if someone could relay that information to the team, that would be helpful.
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ah Crosses into the box. I see them being cleared quite easily. I think we rank third for most crosses into the box. I don't know why, because Jal Pedro is not renowned for his aerial prowess. In CSO, Mrs Blayton goals right in front of goal.
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So yeah, it's not not looking good. I'm not going to lie. But I'm hoping a counterattack. That's why I i would like to see it. I know we said it and um we said it on the preview. and Well, you said it, Joe. You said it on the preview. You don't want to see us sit back at home. And bless, you touched on it there in terms of not really wanting to sit back.
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But I feel like the way you spoke about Minter as well in Behind, I feel like this could be a game for him. Although I'm not as high on Minter as Blessings is, I feel this could be a game where his pace comes in handy, especially with how much ah the Arsenal defenders actually push up.
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like i think the space and they leave so much space in behind that it's kind of they're inviting you because they have so much recovery pace to like put long balls into that box or into not even to the box into their half um and that's kind of where i see us pouncing on one of those chances getting on one-on-one with the keeper and hopefully a gold lasso a gold lasso shit Cheers for that mate, you've literally filled us with no confidence whatsoever. um
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but so much having brought but um Jamie, Matt, I'm just going to throw this to you quickly.
Arsenal's Offensive Form
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so um Obviously we sort of spoke about, um we we're talking about sort of the lack of threat in front of goal. And to be honest, I don't watch Arsenal every week, but I know in recent week, well, obviously you scored three against Brentford, um you beat Palace as well, but do you think that you might also sort of be potentially struggling for that sort of like, there was a period last season where you went on this matter where you're beating every team, like five-nil, six-nil. Do you think that you guys could potentially struggle if you come up against a competent ah competent defense um sort of, I know that you beat Ipswich one-nil, but obviously you sort of potentially struggle to create a lot of chances against Everton that you had chances, but again, nil-nil. So like, do you see the,
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sort of How do you think that could affect the game? Do you see that happening again? Do you think you're past that now? I think with Arsenal offensively, I think that Brentford game, as I say, is like such a pleasing one recently, because it feels like it's been a different performance to what I've seen from Arsenal for quite a while, arguably one of our best performances of the season. I think you've seen generally that Arsenal's defensive side of things have got back to relative normal, but offensively there's been that question mark, and the best thing Arsenal can hope for in Saka's absence is that others other attackers step up.
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Martinelli scored a great goal. Hopefully that's really good for his confidence. Gabriel Jesus has looked as sharp as he's looked in a good few years ah for a good three or four games now in a row, which is massive, I think. I think the positions Martinelli was getting into against Brentford, although the goals Arsenal scored were quite ah bob bo a brilliant third volley, they literally came from creating your own luck.
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Arsenal haven't really scored those type of ricochet goals or anything like that because they've not counter-pressed as effectively as they could or they've not created enough central situations as they could. So in terms of Brighton sitting back, I'm not completely concerned. I think before Brentford I feel a bit more like I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think I'm too, too concerned with Ethan Winery as well, who's just so competent at creating that yard and moving players around in that middle, even though he was off the right. He's so competent in that regard. Lewis Skelly, who's brilliant at making space. As I say, I think timber's a massive miss, and I think the biggest way Brighton can get us at us is in transition offensively by the wing.
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But at the same time, you're in luck that you're a team who's not very good in front of goal, because we find a way to concede a lower XG goal every single week. So that will um thatll be great. Honestly, like some of the ah some of the numbers is laughable. The amount of goals Arsenal have conceded from next to no danger. And even the Mbuemo one against Brentford was was very out of nothing type of thing. It was, a you know, a set of poor mistakes, but it was about the only chance they had in 12 minutes and one of the only
Brighton's Opportunities Against Arsenal
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ones they had in the game. So Ultimately I think Brighton to get anything against Arsenal they need to be obviously it goes without saying top top defensively. Hope Arsenal have a bit of an off day offensively you know obviously as I say
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it's going to come down to those individuals in attack stepping up. I'd expect them to continue to do so and it's integral they do. But I think you know Brighton just got to be clinical offensively. And that that's that's just the way you beat or get anything against an Arsenal or a team like that, or over a last season city or any team like that. By being clinical, by being resolute defensively, I'm taking your chances. So it is a difficult one for for Brighton, but yeah.
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Bless, I'm just gonna, just before we wrap it up and go to our predictions, I'm just gonna ask you the question, it's very broad, but can we do it? Yeah, that's the question is done. I think we definitely can do it. And just to add into what Matt said, we, if we do get a chance, we have to take it because we're not going to get a second or a third. um And that's the most important thing. Like if we can take that one chance that we do get the um state, the game state sort of changes a little bit. And, you know, it could work in our favor a bit more to then play on the counter attack. But again,
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It sounds very obvious about, you know, when you're talking about scoring goals. But yeah, we're only going to get, we're not going to get many chances against this defense. So we got to take it. Right.
Conclusion and Acknowledgements
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So just to put it out there, it's been an absolute pleasure speaking to you all. um A lot of bull knowledge is getting spilled around, apart from from Jamie G, obviously, but um it has been lovely. But what I'm going to do quickly is I'm going to say from the last person that spoke, which is blessed, I'm then going to go back around. I'm going to go through all of your predictions. You're not going to have a lot of time. I'm just going to say your name and then you say your prediction. I don't want you to, I'm an R about it. Just say it. Okay. Right. Ready? Cool. Jamie P. 3-1 Arsenal.
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Jamie G. 1-0. Matt. 2-0 Arsenal. BC. 2-0 Brighton. Dhingra. I'm going to go for 2-1 Brighton. Anyway, um Jamie, Matt, it's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you for having us on. Thank you very much. Jamie, Les, it's always a pleasure, of course.
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um So good luck for the rest of the season. I'd love to say good luck for the game on Saturday, but absolutely not. um For everyone that's been running up the socials, we've been putting out some crazy numbers. We absolutely love to see it. um Keep doing that. Also, go and check out all of Daily Arsenal's socials, all of that stuff. Great lads, you might not see these lot because they've got about nine man running in that thing now. So, ah yeah, we highly appreciate it. Happy New Year. i Hope you all had happy holidays and you all got the iPhone that you wanted, etc. ah The Danny Welbeck t-shirt. And um yeah, make sure that you
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tune into the next one and we will see you very shortly. Thank you very much. Adios.
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