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The 2 Robbies

60 - Spurs & VAR Eliminate Man City

The 2 Robbies

NBC Sports Soccer

Soccer, Sports

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Robbie Earle and Robbie Mustoe on Tottenham's thrilling win over Manchester City in the Champions League and their take on how VAR played its part in sending Spurs through to the semifinals (0:30). Plus, discussion on Ajax shocking Juventus in Turin (36:45), Lionel Messi & Barcelona outclassing Manchester United (44:50), Liverpool cruising past Porto (52:35) and Arsenal and Chelsea getting the job done in the Europa League (58:15).

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:15.0

this is a midweek Euro pod.

0:18.0

this is a midweek Euro pod.

0:21.0

and not just any midweek Euro-Pard. This should be renamed Robiel, the Man City, Espurs, Champions League,

0:27.9

Quarter Finals, Second Leg, Edition. I think we're all still shaking from that game just a couple of days ago but we'll talk

0:36.1

about that of course the other Champions League games we'll touch on Europa as well and

0:40.1

the games involving Chelsea and Arsenal.

0:43.0

But wow, just off the top Rob, like,

0:48.0

give me a sense of how that game ranks of your all-time Champions League matches that you can remember?

0:59.0

It has to be right up there with the very, very best one. We're talking years of great

1:05.0

footballers of great incidents of great moments. Listen we had goals, drama, emotion, drive.

1:15.0

This is in the first 20 minutes by the way.

1:17.0

I'm not even talking about a game.

1:19.0

In 20 minutes, we were 3-2 to my

1:23.0

the thing was just ridiculous. I wrote down as we were writing the notes and I just

1:27.9

went, Magnificent Mayhem. It was Magnificent and we went back and I was thinking about stuff we said and

1:38.0

the more manic it became the more Manchester City lost their chance of winning a game.

1:44.3

There's something about manic intense craziness that makes City flap a little bit and

1:51.6

when they can't control the game and control the ball in the manner that they like it leaves them most vulnerable.

1:58.6

I mean it's so fascinating in how a game can turn out like this.

2:03.2

I mean my first note was Wild Start Wow.

2:06.5

Because of the goals that flew in and Sterling and then the sun,

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