The Arsenal Beat

Crisis? What crisis?!

Arsenal ended a three-game losing streak with victory at the home of European Champions Chelsea on Wednesday night as unlikely heroes emerged in the shape of Eddie Nketiah and Mohamed Elneny.

Has it reignited Arsenal's top-four hopes? Will Mikel Arteta stick with the change of system? Are Manchester United going to bounce back from their Anfield humiliation? Will Mark let anyone else get a word in edgeways as he waxes lyrical about Elneny?

Sam asks all of those questions and plenty more beside as he is joined by the aforementioned Mark Mann-Bryans of PA Media and the Evening Standard's Simon Collings to reflect on the Chelsea win and cast an eye forward to the visit of United.

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'Arsenal Beaten' might be a more apt title for our podcast after a second successive loss has seen the club's top-four chances damaged.

Brighton followed in the footsteps of their M23 rivals Crystal Palace in taking all the points off Mikel Arteta's side, while Southampton are next up on Saturday.

Mark is joined by Art de Roche of the Athletic and football.london's Kaya Kaynak to look back on what went wrong against Brighton and how Arsenal can move forward to get their season back on track.

We end with a traditional round of Guess the Gooner, as Art and Kaya go head to head for the first time.

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A defeat at Crystal Palace on Monday night means the top-four picture for Arsenal looks slightly less clear than it did going into the weekend.

With Kieran Tierney and Thomas Partey injured, it has been a few days to forget for Mikel Arteta as the challenge of getting Arsenal back into the Champions League takes another turn.

Sam is in charge today and is joined by the Athletic's James McNicholas - aka Gunnerblog - and James Olley, senior football writer at ESPN, to dissect where things went wrong at Selhurst Park, discuss Arteta's options at left-back following a poor night for Nuno Tavares and look ahead to the weekend visit of Brighton.

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Another international break has come to a close so the Premier League returns this weekend with Arsenal in action last, making the short trip to face Crystal Palace on Monday night.

Simon is joined by the Guardian's Nick Ames and Kaya Kaynak of football.london to cast a quick eye over the internationals, discuss Patrick Vieira's Palace and preview the game at Selhurst Park.

Molly Hudson of the Times also calls in from a snowy Wolfsburg after Arsenal crashed out of the Women's Champions League on Thursday night, while – given the date – we close the show with our one-off quiz, Arsenal Fools Day.

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With the international break taking the players away from the Emirates Stadium, we've decided to focus our third Arsenal Beat special of the season on a man who has instigated the change in fortunes in recent weeks and months.

This is a special about Martin Odegaard, and Ode to Martin, if you will...

Arilas Oulda Saada, football journalist for Norweigan channel TV2, Spanish correspondent for AFP Tom Allnutt, The Telegraph's Sam Dean and Mark Mann-Bryans from PA Media are your guides - and we also hear a few words from the man himself, taken from an exclusive sit down interview Mark had with Odegaard at Arsenal's training ground at the start of March.

The panel discuss his arrival as a teenager, more like Messi and Zidane than Hangeland and Carew, a trial tour of Europe, a trophy player, growing pains in Madrid, upsetting the apple cart, a Perez PR stunt, no time to shine, missing out to Modric, success at Sociedad, captaining his country, a Dutch master, running his arse off, self-belief, Mystic Sam Dean, catching Covid, winning over Arsenal fans, nerding out with Arteta and finally finding his home at Arsenal.

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Bukayo Saka was the goalscoring hero as Arsenal swiftly recovered from defeat to Liverpool to win at Aston Villa and head into the international break with their top-four place intact.

While the men's players jet off to join their respective international teams, Arsenal are in Women's Champions League action on Wednesday as they host Wolfsburg in the first leg of their quarter-final tie.

Mark is joined by the Athletic's Art de Roche as well as Nick Ames of The Guardian to look back on the vital win at Villa Park before Molly Hudson of The Times joins us to preview the crunch Champions League clash.

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Another victory on Sunday saw Leicester become the latest side to be steam-rollered by Mikel Arteta's top four bandwagon, but could the wheels come off when they host title-chasing Liverpool on Wednesday?

Mark is joined by the Telegraph's Sam Dean and Molly Hudson from the Times to look back on the Leicester success, who stood out, the change in atmosphere around the club and why Granit Xhaka being a square peg could be bad for the Switzerland captain.

The trio also preview the visit of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool, is there such thing as a free hit, does this result matter in the grand scheme of the top-four race and could a heavy loss dent recent morale?

Molly is then put to the test in the long-awaited return of the Arsenal Beat Quiz.

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It may have ultimately been a 3-2 win at Watford but another good display from Arsenal now leaves them in a great position in the fight for a top four finish.

The attacking players at Mikel Arteta's disposal are really starting to click and there were three lovely goals at Vicarage Road to boot.

Simon is joined by ESPN senior football writer James Olley and Charles Watts of Goal to look back at what could prove a pivotal three points, pick their best of the strikes and discuss how Arsenal's top-four chances look.

The trio also debate how the team is shaping up without Aubameyang and whether Lacazette's lack of goals are an issue.

We round things off as ever with Guess the Gooner as Charles and James make their debut appearances on the game everyone (a few people) can't get enough of.

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Arsenal are finally back in action as they prepare for Sunday's Premier League trip to struggling Watford.

The Wolves win feels like a distant memory now but a couple of players who stood out in that game - Alexandre Lacazette & Nicolas Pepe - deserve a mention.

Mark is joined by Nick Ames of the Guardian and the Athletic's Art de Roche as the trio hail Lacazette's mentality since being installed as permanent Arsenal captain - for now.

They also discuss Pepe and what they feel his role in the team will be as the season enters squeaky-bum time with a look ahead to the short hop to Vicarage Road this weekend.

Guess the Gooner wraps things up as normal and please remember to rate and review the Arsenal Beat.

With Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe once again providing the goods, Arsenal saw off Brentford on Saturday to keep their top-four hopes in their own hands.

Wolves next up on Thursday night, too, and plenty of other topics to discuss.

Simon is in charge and is joined by The Sun's Mark Irwin and Sam Dean from The Telegraph to look back on the Brentford win, analyse Saka and Smith Rowe and whether Martin Odegaard is captaincy material.

The guys also touch on if it is possible to over-celebrate a win and the remarkable re-emergence of Cedric Soares.

We finish with a stellar round of Guess the Gooner and ask that you rate and review the Arsenal Beat.