Keen & Judah Show: Three up and three down vs Arsenal

Liam Keen and Nathan Judah discuss the good and the bad following the 2-0 defeat to Arsenal on opening weekend

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00:00Liam Keane, you look lovely and very clean and I look not fresh shaven and in a hotel room but

00:06end of the day it is Taylor Swift tonight so we have to, we are on location so hopefully it's not

00:11it's not too bad. No, no I think you've done okay considering that I think you know most

00:16people now are used to the sort of scruffy Nathan Judah look so I think it's sort of,

00:20it's on brand already and it's working. Yeah, could you call Wolverhampton Wonders a little

00:26bit scruffy on Saturday? Could you call them a little bit punchy? There were some good things,

00:31there were some bad things, there were a few skirmishes, there were a few battles,

00:34they got the better of some but overall they were not the victor and today we're going to

00:39be talking about Arsenal 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 and the good and the bad, the

00:46player-wise on the day, three ups, three downs and we'll be concentrating on those players and

00:51our assessment of them so let's go straight on with it Liam and let's talk about the good,

00:55let's start with the good, we'll have this half, do we have this half with the good and the second

00:59half with the bad after the advert break or do we go good bad, good bad? No, let's go good first and

01:04there might be slightly more to talk about on the bad but it's probably roughly even but I think

01:09let's start with the good and finish off on a dull note. Okay, so one player who I guess went

01:17under the radar because they're conceding two goals and we're talking about a defender, you're

01:20like okay well why are we talking about a defender who was good but I must admit and I think we both

01:25were discussing this during the afternoon, someone who would not have started had, well you'd

01:32accept, you'd assume that Nelson Semedo, that Matt Doherty wouldn't have started but I felt like

01:37Doherty did very, very well, there were very few attacks to come down that right-hand side or

01:42threatening attacks from Arsenal and actually the way that he was up on the other end of the pitch

01:48supporting the attack as well, he had a very solid afternoon for someone who would expect

01:54being on the outside looking in. Yeah, exactly, I think had Nelson Semedo not been sent off at

02:01Liverpool on the final day of last season that he wouldn't have started this season with a three-game

02:06ban and Matt Doherty I imagine would have started the season on the bench, it didn't work out that

02:11way, he started at Arsenal and was really quite impressed actually with what he was able to put

02:17in because look we know what he's all about, he's an experienced player, likes to get forward,

02:22arrives at the far post, makes intelligent runs, there was one opportunity when Chiquinho put the

02:27ball in in the second half, he made a good run, maybe slightly missed time, he made a good run

02:33towards the back post and got ahead on it so we know what Matt Doherty is all about but what he

02:38did put in, which he did at times last season as well but it was few and far between because of

02:44Nelson Semedo's form, was I would describe a complete performance for Matt Doherty. Defensively

02:50I don't think he got the better of on any or many occasions against very tough

02:56forwards by the way in Martinelli, Trossard coming on in the second half as well.