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Arsenal’s perfect start and so many Champions League goals – Football Weekly

Football Weekly

The Guardian

Soccer, Sports

4.69K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Mark Langdon and Archie Rhind-Tutt as they try to summarise a Champions League night rammed with goals. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/footballweeklypod

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:02.0

Hello and welcome to the Guardian.

0:03.0

So,

0:04.0

Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly.

0:15.0

So many goals, 43 and one night in the Champions League.

0:18.0

Is that good? Goals are good, right? Or is that too many?

0:20.0

Some of the games were pretty tight for a while, but some real floodgates energy across Europe once the first went in. See, Arsenal, the better side against Athlete, could have been behind when another wicked Declan Rice free kick begged to be headed home and Gabrielle obliged. After that, good for Yocchreze to score too terrible, but confidence-building goals. Long throws might be back,

0:38.0

but no one's hurling it as far as Nick Pope to set up Harvey Barnes. A good win for Newcastle

0:42.3

over Jose Spanfica, while Man City win comfortably at Villa Real. Then PSG score 7, bracket 7,

0:48.0

Barser 6, bracket 6, perhaps PSV bracket 6, close brackets, close brackets, hammering Napoli

0:54.0

is the only vaguely surprising result of the night. and then four for Inter and Dortmund. I've ranked all the goals like a top 40 countdown. It's something to do. Kaira and Paphos let us down with a goalless draw, but how there were no goals in that game, nobody knows. Also how bad a West Ham comfortably beaten by Brentford? Dice is confirmed at Forest.

1:12.3

Roll finally rolls into Rangers.

1:13.5

All that plus your questions.

1:15.1

And that's the Bay Guardian Football Weekly.

1:22.9

On the panel today, Barry Glendening, hello.

1:24.3

Hello, Max.

1:25.6

Welcome, Archie Winn-Tut.

1:26.5

Hello, Max.

1:28.8

And from The Racing Post, Mark Langdon, hello. Hi, Max. So, Archie Winn-Tutt. Hello, Max. And from the Racing Post, Mark Langdon, hello.

1:29.6

Hi, Max.

1:36.7

So up to Joe saying the 43 goals scored across the nine UEFA Champions League games last night was the second highest average, 4.8, on a single day in the competition,

1:40.8

bracket's minimum of four games, after this exact day nine years ago when there were 40

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