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\ud83d\udd25 <\/span>Hottest of Takes<\/strong> \u2014 Johnny raises the alarm about the injury situation heading into the run-in and asks whether Max Dowman is about to become an emergency starter, while Pete delivers a passionate take about Arsenal\u2019s place in world football that\u2019ll make you sit up straight<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 <\/span>Arsenal Are Setting The Global Standard<\/strong> \u2014 Ecuador\u2019s national coach is using Arsenal set pieces on his training board. Pete makes the case that Nicolas Jova deserves way more flowers than he\u2019s getting, and that Arsenal are now the team everyone else is trying to copy<\/span><\/p>\n \u26bd <\/span>The Ajax Comparison<\/strong> \u2014 Johnny gets philosophical about the kind of team Arteta is building, drawing comparisons to the great Ajax sides of the 90s and what it takes to blend technical quality with physical dominance<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb0 <\/span>The Injury Dice Roll<\/strong> \u2014 international breaks are a casino and the lads don\u2019t love the odds right now. With Noni leaving with a brace on his leg, who actually comes back fit?<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcb8 <\/span>Brahim Diaz Scouted<\/strong> \u2014 a Real Madrid bench warmer is being linked with Arsenal for around \u00a329m. Does he raise the ceiling or just the floor? Pete and Johnny watch the clips live and give their verdict<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83e\udde4 <\/span>David Raya Is The Best In The World<\/strong> \u2014 Spain\u2019s number two has said it, Barcelona\u2019s keeper has said it, and Pete is furious that the Spain manager is still not playing him. An open invitation to Luis de la Fuente to come on the pod and explain himself<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \ud83d\udd25 Hottest of Takes \u2014 Johnny raises the alarm about the injury situation heading into the run-in and asks whether Max Dowman is about to become an emergency starter, while Pete delivers a passionate take about Arsenal\u2019s place in world football that\u2019ll make you sit up straight \ud83c\udfc6 Arsenal Are Setting The Global Standard \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}