Barcelona win another classic Clasico while Napoli slip up in Scudetto race

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo’s joined by Julien Laurens, Pol Ballús, Seb Stafford-Bloor and James Horncastle for your weekly dose of Continental chatter.

It’s a clean sweep of four Clasico victories this season for Barcelona over Real after Sunday afternoon’s bonkers 4-3 win at Montjuïc. It moves Hansi Flick’s side seven points clear with three games left to play, while Carlo Ancelotti sets off into the Brazilian sunset…

Over in Italy, after their midweek Champions League heroics Inter closed the gap on Napoli at the top of the table to just one point as Antonio Conte’s side conceded an 84th minute equaliser from Genoa to set up a nervy finish with two games left of this enthralling Serie A campaign.

We touch base with the equally dramatic title race in the Eredivisie - where Ajax’s nine-point lead at the top of the table has evaporated to just one. Chasers PSV came back from 2-0 down at Feyenoord to win 3-2 in the 99th minute AND Ajax lost 3-0 at home! Michiel Jongsma stops by to tell us more.

In France, Monaco locked in their UCL place courtesy of a 2-0 win over Lyon - while Marseille followed suit in their 3-1 victory at Le Havre - but could Roberto De Zerbi’s future be elsewhere?

And in the Bundesliga, there’s wild celebrations in Hamburg as they return to the top flight for the first time in seven years - while the hunt for UCL football goes down to the last day as Dortmund look to pip Freiburg or Frankfurt to a top four finish.

Plus - bicycle kicks, train journeys with footballers, Xherdan Shaqiri guiding Basel to glory and making friends with all of you…

Produced by Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Moments of the weekend (and adjacent things!) (00.40)

• PART 2: La Liga review - Barca close in on their 28th title (11.00)

• PART 3: Serie A review - Napoli open the door for Inter (22.50)

• PART 4: Benfica 1-1 Sporting & Eredivisie title drama with Michiel Jongsma (39.10)

• PART 5: Ligue 1 review - Monaco & Marseille secure UCL places (48.30)

• PART 6: Bundesliga review - Hamburg and back - and Dortmund are too?! (55.40)

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