Pete and Matt are back, forty-eight hours from Budapest, and the excitement is barely containable. Matt flies out tomorrow night. Pete's holding the fort. This is the last one before the biggest game of most Arsenal fans' lives.
Here's what's inside:
🔥 Hottest of Takes — Matt's is a love letter to the support cast of every Arsenal fan's life: the partners, the kids, the friends who've had to share them with a football club for 22 years. Pete's take is about Arteta's dream of unpredictability — and why this might finally be the game where he can fully unleash it
🏆 Declan Rice Was Aura Farming — he's addressed it. Pete and Matt on the greatest psychological operation in recent Champions League history
🎯 The Tactical Puzzle — Who Starts Where? — the right back question, the Timber gamble, Calafiori vs Hincapié at left back, Eze on the wing, Kai as the nine. Pete maps out two games within a game: the first sixty and the impact players who win it in the last thirty
😬 Pete's Biggest Fear — Arteta galaxy-brains the final. Pep's done it. Could Mikel? Matt has thoughts on whether he's that kind of manager. The Zubimendi at right back conversation is happening
💸 Morgan Rogers — The Summer Dream — £80 million, Aston Villa, Noni Madüeke liking a suspicious Instagram post. Pete and Matt are both in. There's one significant obstacle standing in the way and it's called Don Unai
⚠️ Zubimendi — Should We Be Worried? — Pete has been saying it for weeks. A Hand of Arsenal tweet drops today that has him raising an eyebrow. Matt is starting to come round
🤩 Myles Lewis-Skelly — From Mansfield to the Final — Pete cannot believe this is the same player. The Instagram post. The caption. Pure profit. The lads are in love
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