Bayern make a statement in Madrid as Arsenal get back to winning ways
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Art De Roché, Liam Twomey and Daniel Storey to discuss Tuesday night's Champions League action.
Bayern beat Real Madrid 2-1 in an end to end encounter at the Bernabéu. It could have been more for Bayern and yet Mbappe could have got a hat-trick too, with both teams racking up 20 shots each. Are Bayern the team to beat? Is Harry Kane the best in the world?
Meanwhile in Lisbon, Arsenal fought hard against an impressive Sporting Clube to earn a revitalising away win in the Estádio José Alvalade, via a stoppage time goal made by two substitutes Martinelli and Havertz. How big a difference did David Raya make?
Plus an EFL roundup, Ramsey retires, Mudryk trains and a tribute to Mircea Lucescu.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.
• PART 1: Rundown of the results (0.40)
• PART 2: Real Madrid 1-2 Bayern (3.45)
• PART 3a: Sporting 0-1 Arsenal (20.20)
• PART 3b: Ramsey retires & where’s Mudryk? (27.40)
• PART 4a: A tribute to Mircea Lucescu (40.15)
• PART 4b: EFL roundup (41.30)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:02.0 | Totally Football's show today, Tuesday |
| 0:11.0 | Wednesday in the Champions League. |
| 0:13.0 | Wonders and blunders at the Burnabelle. |
| 0:15.0 | Olise makes it look Isay and Kane scores once again, |
| 0:18.0 | while in Lisbon habits and especially hands of Raya |
| 0:21.3 | see Arsenal past sporting in the week's second biggest story |
| 0:24.8 | about players relying on Raya swipes. |
| 0:27.7 | We'll be talking about all of that, |
| 0:28.9 | plus big football league news and much, much more in this totally football show. |
| 0:44.0 | Unbelievable. Wednesday, the 8th of April, |
| 0:48.6 | special bonus totally football show for you and for us, indeed, listener. |
| 0:50.4 | Thank you for being a part of it. |
| 0:52.0 | Here in the studio, we've got Liam Toomey. |
| 0:52.5 | Hi, Liam. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello. |
| 1:11.1 | Been a busy guy of late, Liam. Yeah, I mean, it's all within the realm of how busy Chelsea you would normally keep you. Right. I'm just pleased to still be invited to the Champions League party. Nice. The club I cover is at home. Yeah. You've done a bit of extracurricular stuff as well. Penning, what I believe is the most viewed article on the, on the athletics exit website. We'll get on to that. A little bit later. Aude Roshay is there, probably in close second with your output. I doubt it. I doubt it. Really? But good morning, everyone. Good morning to you. I hope you're doing well. You very much drew the long straw and got sporting Arsenal to watch on Tuesday night. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, it was a tough one to watch, especially when I caught up on what happened in the Madrid buying game. |
| 1:39.7 | But, I mean, thankfully for Arsenal, they were able to get something of a job done with a 1-0 win. |
| 1:45.9 | So the result made it worth it, I guess. |
| 1:49.2 | Definitely. A 1-0 win away to a team that had won its last 17 in a row at home. |
| 1:53.8 | As you say, you missed out on events at the Burnabale and also at the racecourse ground. |
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