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About this episode

The episode discusses Manchester City's victory in the Carabao Cup final against Arsenal, highlighting key performances and tactical strategies.

The Carabao Cup trophy is back at the Etihad, its rightful home, and David Mooney is joined by City fan KC and, from Sporting News, Dom Farrell to discuss the final against Arsenal. City have now won the League Cup under the Carabao banner more than any other team combined and Pep Guardiola has become the first manager ever to win the trophy on five different occasions. With the international break to come, there's plenty of room in today's show to discuss the key performances from the victory at Wembley, which means giving due praise to the likes of Matheus Nunes, Rayan Cherki, Jeremy Doku and Antoine Semenyo... and not forgetting the Mancunian City fan from the academy who scored both goals, Nico O'Reilly. Plus, there was also an interesting tactical approach from Guardiola to starve Arsenal of opportunities to get out of their own defensive third. The Athletic's Jon Mackenzie joins the show to break that down and look at how City strangled their opposition to get on top of the game. On top of that, there's been more chatter around Guardiola's future... but, perhaps more of an immediate concern are the quotes from Rodri about the next steps in his career. Could that be away…

People in this episode

Host: David Mooney

Guests: KC, Dom Farrell, Jon Mackenzie

Topics covered

• Carabao Cup
• Manchester City
• Arsenal
• Pep Guardiola
• tactical analysis
• player performances
• future of players

Keywords

• Carabao Cup
• Manchester City
• Arsenal
• Pep Guardiola
• Nico O'Reilly
• Rodri
• tactics
• player performances

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arsenal, Carabao Cup

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