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This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. I can't believe what's happening at Arsenal because they promised me it wouldn't. Like I'm so subreddit. Chelsea got a whip in and it couldn't, it genuinely couldn't have happened in a better way. I know there are things we need to speak about because I noticed some things and I would love to know if you guys saw it as well. Very quickly hit like and subscribe and let me know your thoughts on that game. Who was your man of the match? To me, I'm just like, we've been here before. I don't know how many times I've had conversations with so many people where they're like, this is impossible. This was never supposed to happen. Oh my god, this player's not good enough. Kai Havards, why are we still disrespecting him in this fanbase? Please, look, I know everyone's got their different opinions. Everyone's got their favorite, your favorite might be Victor Yocker.
Your favorite might be Kai Havards. But when are we going to stop pretending that this guy isn't a good player and you could easily say, well, he's just at his moment. He has quite a lot of moments. Right, he's not as prolific as some people would like but Kai Havards is the definition of a big game player and again, he might not be your favorite but at some point, at some point, we just have to look at him and say, you know what, the boy is effective, the boy is effective, the goal, unbelievable, the dummy, he's created two key chances. They're two goals all down to the contribution of Kai Havards. So as quick as some people are to dismiss him and kind of say how bad he is, I'm sure you guys will join me in showing your appreciation for Kai Havards. Give Kai Havards some love in the comments section. Look, I have to make some notes here because it was a basketball match at times. I loved about it was my brother, my younger brother is a Chelsea fan and he was giving it the big boy from the start before the match and now he's Radio Sylon which is a shock.
I know you guys are thinking what a Chelsea fan's giving it the big and then when it comes to, you know, time to take the stick, you'd disappear Radio Sylents but it just makes the game even sweeter. One thing that my dad mentioned is look at the benches. People have been saying Arsenal are not strong enough Arsenal didn't strengthen enough in the summer transfer window. Look at the bench. Arsenal's bench, 365 million pounds. Chelsea, £224 million but this is a team everyone told me has overtaken us in terms of additions. This guy, this team, operates in a far better manner than Arsenal doing the transfer window but when you look at there, the sheet, Arsenal are far superior and it's showed within the game. Arsenal had far more quality at times. Arsenal were dominating that game. Now I don't need to sit here and pretend that we had it all our own way but in large parts Arsenal were comfortable. Big shout out to David Rayer that massive save at the end.
How many times has he done that for us? Over the past two, three seasons this guy, as an Arsenal fan, I would get called biased for this but it's not a crazy opinion for me to say this is the best keeper in the world. He's been the best keeper in the strongest league for about three comfortably three seasons but when you try and put him into the best in the world conversation you get laughed out of the room. I'm done pretending. David Rayer is the best goalkeeper in the world. Please let me know if you agree. Some of you might be slightly more rational thinkers than I am. Is David Ray the best goalkeeper? Like what goalkeepers are better than David Rayer? Unbelievable. I spoke about Havots, man of the match performance. Look I know the broadcast team gave it to Martin Udegard and am I surprised? No. Both unbelievable. Martin Udegard exceptional. The stats flashed up on screen. Dangerous pass. He dribbles. The accuracy. The guy is purring. Look my brother texts me and he said to be fair the dummy was nice.
The finish was like, oh the guard has been doing that. It was taking his time in front of goal. Martin Udegard the past few seasons can be accused of lashing at shots. Sometimes people say you don't shoot enough but the goal against city and the goal against Chelsea demonstrated he's coming into this season with a new found chill. Relaxed in front of goal. Ability to slow down. Embrace the moment and finish the chance. I'm so happy for Martin Udegard. Great. For me again it was Kai Haverts. Let me know who you guys had. Morgan Rogers scores early. Could we have picked a worst player to score? No, of course you can't because all of a sudden the conversation is loud and oh my god. The Chelsea fans were loud. Now I've done what I shouldn't have done. It should have been illegal but I opened up social media and oh they was roasting Arsenal. Everyone they was all jumping on oh look he turned you boys down and then he scores for Chelsea
and at that point I'm not going to see it in light. Everyone I was sitting there thinking if this finishes with Morgan Rogers scoring the winning goal I'm going to do well. I'm not even making a breakdown video because I could already see the mockery but yeah I saw that goal when I was thinking there has to be more conversation to this match. We cannot allow it to finish on a Morgan Rogers goal but then big boy Havvy the big German steps up and oh so so good from Kai Havvirt. Gabrielle Red card. Now this was a talking point. I've actually heard some Arsenal fans come out and say if I was Arsenal if the chew was on the other foot and someone kicked David Rayal like that I would want them to have a red card. The ball was there to get if there was no ball to go for like the ball was still bubbling it was in no way secure in my opinion. Gabrielle has every right to go for that. Now I'm happy to say slightly clumsy. Could it have been a red card in another game again not for me because I believe there
was intention behind the play. I don't think he's just booted his eyebrow clean off. I think he's gone for the ball and unfortunately in the moment everyone can always look at it in milliseconds when it's slowed down and say he's just kicked his eyebrow clean off. Of course he hasn't he's gone to play the ball. The ball wasn't played and he's kicked the player so can Chelsea feel hard done by yeah I'll give you that certainly wasn't a red card in my opinion but let me know your thoughts and then you had the old guard go again brilliant Zollis brilliant oh my god Zollis is so good and again it just shows the not flip flop because I've had that conversation but just the ability to when people are doubting a player and saying he was rubbish in the last game he doesn't deserve to start sometimes a player just needs a guard there and go again kid like 24 years old go out there and show everyone what you can do. This got given the opportunity and I don't think he was bad like he was better than average in my opinion again he didn't blow me up I wasn't like oh my god Alexis Sanchez comparisons and those are the comparisons that are being made a couple of weeks ago but again I just
saw solid deserves to start the next game I like what I saw from Zollis now something that is interesting and I'm not approaching this with any agenda the brilliant thing is I'm going to speak about Victor Yocker's let me know your thoughts on Victor Yocker's when he came on the benefit of me coming into this is I've got no dog in the fire I've made it very clear love Yocker's love have it it seems to be the majority of Arsenal fans either have one guy you're either Yocker's or your have it's me I'm like they're both good we can use both of them but we saw when Victor Yocker's come on sloppy is this what Michaela Tet has been seen in training people are questioning right why have we not seen Yocker's why is Kai Havards constantly this season being picked ahead of Victor Yocker's the striker that we brought in last season and fair enough to Yocker's fired us to the league he will he was clumsy when he come on and again people are going to think well you're you're putting slander on Victor again I'm clearly not I'm just saying I can see why Kai Havards is ahead of him so far now I think it's fair to say in the other hand
he's not played much football so we can't expect him to be as sharp as some other players when he's that was his first but he didn't come on in the last games that he's played 15 minutes in the community shield so you can excuse him for looking slightly rusty the team looks brilliant cons are that last ditch slide tackle all of us already he will go down as an Arsenal whatever because it was just brilliant it's exactly what we needed in that moment what way to indeed yourself to the Arsenal faithful then a large ditch slide tackle when it seems like Chelsea are going to break to equalize the game as we cons are was brilliant I like that he's vocal Gabrielle was still the leader of the back line but I don't see a problem with there being another voice in that back line looks a lever is not a voice he's a better play than cons I'm just saying I don't mind a player being loud some people can say there's a bit of a conflict there if too many people are talking too many chefs and all that but I don't mind a loud defender he's got credentials you know we know he's a great player so having the voices in there to you know dictate certain things
I like what I'm seeing from Ezra cons again when William Celeba comes back for me he slots straight back in but the benefit you have is you don't have to rush him back like what will you rush him back for when you've got a player at that quality able to play in games like this and now Arsenal nine points back to joint top we are looking good like these were some difficult fixtures before the season started most people were looking at this season and saying you know what it's tough you've got man city and this was coming off a preseason when we was looking at so many question marks in this preseason we've not done the business we've not brought in the players we've left ourselves short you guys remember the conversations a few weeks ago and then we got a play city free nil smash city and in your play coventry free nil smash coventry and people because it's a newly promoted side man city struggled against that coventry they only beat on one nil so let's not let's stop disrespecting this Arsenal team again the conversation before this game the conversation after the villa game where it's like look Arsenal got a bit carried away they was pretending
Zollis was Alexis Sanchez just because they scored free goals against city and and coventry all of a sudden you play as them villa Arsenal seem like they're struggling and it's like he's just not going to go your way every week this Chelsea game we went down what a way to come but like to cope to win to we had the ball in the net free times that wasn't a struggle by any means in no part of that game did I think this is incapable of us coming back into this game I didn't look at anything Chelsea offered and again look Chelsea to had their moments there was an any part of that game where I didn't believe in this team and that's something that I love having now is belief in the team when your team put together a runner game that they proved to you they show you look we're good enough to do these type of action we're good enough to win games we're good enough to make comebacks when Chelsea scored in what was it the first minute second minute I was thinking calm perfect because it's going to be even sweeter because I know what people are going to be thinking after Chelsea take
the lead straight away Morgan Rogers I could already see the headlines Arsenal didn't allow that to happen Michaela Teta didn't allow that to happen there was a lot of noise going into this game for Chelsea Chelsea had the momentum a lot of people I was speaking to a Liverpool friend of mine and he was saying I think Chelsea going to beat you I know the Chelsea fans were confident they will come out now and say like my brother was during the game oh look it's just set pieces oh look you rubbish you've had 44 touches in the opposition's box and you're not able to do anything with it but the truth is we're very good football team we are so so good all over the park again just look at the subs when they came on we are so strong everywhere and teams hate it I hope collectively we're past the point of being disappointed with the transfer window again if it didn't go your way I understand maybe you wanted one more attacker I'm with you but there's no one that can look at this squad look at the team in its current guys and say we're a team
that's struggling we're far from that we're in an unbelievable position there's big games coming up we've got a midweek game we've got a game next week I'm just I'm excited for it love it let me know your thoughts on everything you've heard in this video what was your thoughts on that Chelsea game are you happy what is your feelings city let me know thank you so much to everyone for watching and listening before you go if you could do me a quick favor hit like and subscribe and I'll speak to you all in tomorrow's video gooners have a good day
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