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Barcelona thrash Newcastle while Spurs offer a glimmer of hope – Football Weekly Extra

Football Weekly

The Guardian

Sports, Soccer

4.59.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Philippe Auclair and Mark Langdon to review Wednesday night’s Champions League action and to look ahead to the Carabao Cup final. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/footballweeklypod. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FootballWeeklyPodcast

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:13.1

Hello and welcome to The Guardian Football Weekly.

0:15.5

Barcelona hit seven, bracket seven against Newcastle at the New Camp.

0:18.8

The Jordy's equalised a couple of times, but Basa kept scoring and scoring and scoring and Newcastle at the New Camp. The Jordy's equalized a couple of times, but Barser kept scoring and scoring and scoring, and Newcastle stopped equalizing and equalizing.

0:26.8

Liverpool made easy work of Galatasarite. Mo Salah in the second half at least looking a little

0:31.2

like 2024, 25 Mo Salah with Sir Bosley brilliant once again. A win for Spurs is always a story,

0:37.1

even if it was in vain against Atletti, and buy and have another stroll against Atalanta. Harry Kane, very good. We'll analyse the course of final draw, then look ahead to the Carabal Cup final. Is this all about the psychology of the title race or more about winning an actual trophy? There's a Premier League preview, more on Morocco's stunning Afcon victory.

0:55.2

All that plus your questions.

0:57.2

And that's today's Guardian Football Weekly.

1:03.5

On the panel today, Barry Glendanning, welcome.

1:04.9

Howdy, Max?

1:07.3

Rootin, Tootin. How are you?

1:10.2

Bonjour, it's a va. Philippe O'Clair.

1:28.3

It's very good, Max. Yeah, it's a right. And from the racing post, Mark Langdon, hey, Mark. Hi, Max. All right, let's get into the Champions League then. We'll begin at the New Camp. I mean, there were 68 goals in the knockout rounds across all the games. Eight and a half goals a game is ridiculous.

1:31.1

Barcelona is seven, Newcastle 2.

1:35.8

And Mark, for a bit of this game, you thought, this is going to be an absolute, I mean, I don't know if it's, does it count as a classic?

1:38.4

It doesn't really because they just ran away with it, Barcelona.

1:40.6

But in that first half hour, you were like, this could be anything.

1:45.0

Our first half was a classic of sorts. I'm sure there are managers out there that prefer

1:50.5

control and discipline. And, you know, they would have been, Jose Marino types would have been

1:55.5

pulling their hair out at the chaos of that first half, particularly. But for those of us that sort of watch the premier league

2:02.4

and i think it's quite a stodgy sort of 90 minutes most games now in the premier league so it's

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