Hello, hello, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

And today we're talking an action-packed series of the Champions League second legs in the round of 16, which of course came after the knockout phase playoffs.

And obviously the phase inning six marked for justice.

In this round, we saw Spurs go out swinging. Newcastle knocked out with a series of haymakers, and Chelsea knocked out by a series of punches thrown into their own face. It was a bold strategy, Cotton. PSG could only muster a scant eight goals against Cole Palmer and Co. Barsa managed seven in one match against Newcastle, and Byron did Byron things 10 times in their matches against

Atalanta. The defeat also meant an end to Eunice Moose's Champions League campaign. Ditto from

Malik Tillman and Leverkusen, who were sent packing by Arsenal. That leaves one American standing

as we head to the quarterfinal round, take a bow the man the myth of the legend Johnny Cardoso.

Meanwhile, down 3-0 after the first leg, Manchester City needed goals against Ra Madrid

and looked lively until Bernardozova decided he was a goalkeeper for a second

and received his marching orders accordingly.

Pep and his Seattle grunge phase were appropriately angsty in that one.

Liverpool managed three goals in 11 minutes, ultimately winning 4-0 to see off Galatasarai,

and Plucky upstarts Sporting Club to Portugal, managed to pull themselves up through grit and belief

to erase a three-goal deficit to the mighty Boto Glimt, ultimately netting five times to advance in extra time.

I asked around that I have it on good authority that after the first leg, sporting players were reminded that Ruben Amram also doesn't manage them anymore, and then they were good again.

So with that groundwork now laid, we turned to Graham Ruffin, who was silently weeping during that introduction as his beloved Boto is no more.

Graham, as the saying goes, tis better to have glimped and lost than never to have glimped at all.

That is how the saying goes. What an introduction there, Taylor Robwell. We had, we even had the reference to the Pep Guardula Kurt Cobain 90s grunt shirt, which I was going to bring up on this show. Not entirely sure what was going on there. It looked like he just dropped his daughter off at swimming. And I did wonder if you were Taylor going to, going for today's show. I really should have. I really should have in honor of Pep. I liked it. It was a good look. But it was kind of appropriate for like the sadness at the final whistle that he seemed to be experiencing. It's a weird one to see Pep sad and out at this round. He was not dressed as a manager who thought his team was going through to the quarterfinals of the Champions League. And unfortunately, Bodo Glimb were not dressed either for going through to the quarterfinals. I cry for Bodo Glipp. I'm sad that that story ended. And the way it did, I'm sure we'll talk more about it later. Look at the single tier roll down his cheek. With us, of course, is a man who can spot a Barcelona pick and roll better than, well, at least anyone on this podcast. It's Joe Laughey. Hi, Joe. Yes, I was a little bit behind in the Barcelona Newcastle game and our group chat was embroiled in refereeing controversy, which I generally try to wait away from because nothing interests me less. And I was like six minutes or so behind the action. And I saw Barcelona, deep in their own half, run just a for real basketball out of bounds play. They had a throw in, like I said, deep in their own third. And there's a screen that then allows Mark Bernal to come off the screen to get the ball and then he one touches the ball to a central attacker.

It doesn't actually work, I don't believe, but it was kind of interesting. It was probably less interesting than a lot of other things, but I thought it was good. I liked it. It actually makes sense. It definitely counted as an attempt. I like it. Go Graham. It makes sense that Barcelona are into, or Hansi Flick is into basketball, the way that they play.

I'm now expecting that the new camp new, you know, the music that they play when the team is coming up court. Dan, then, then, then. It gets quicker and quicker and quicker, and they have to have a shot within however many seconds. That's how bars to play. It works. That's gold. Let's talk about that game in a bit more detail, shall we?

Let's start with Barcelona 14 Newcastle, I don't know, two or three.

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