Champions League Debrief: Bend it like Declan - Arsenal rampant against Real Madrid
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Cates is alongside the BBC’s Senior Football Reporter Ian Dennis & former Arsenal and West Ham defender Matthew Upson at the Emirates Stadium, as well as former Crystal Palace winger Andros Townsend, for analysis of Arsenal’s thumping victory over Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.
They discuss Declan Rice’s two incredible freekicks, the electric atmosphere inside the Emirates, and whether the tie is already over. Harry Symeou, presenter of The Chronicles of a Gooner, joins them to discuss what it was like to be inside the stadium for such a memorable night for Arsenal. Mikel Arteta reacts to Arsenal's first goal from a direct freekick since 2021.
Plus, John Murray is in Paris ahead of PSG against Aston Villa. Unai Emery gives his thoughts on returning to the French club he managed for two years and Youri Tielemans talks about battling with Europe's strongest teams.
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| 0:46.8 | On the Football Daily Podcasts, the Champions League debrief. |
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| 0:57.3 | Hello, welcome to the Football Daily podcast, where we're in a rocking Emirates stadium because it finished Arsenal 3, Real Madrid, nil, as Michel Arteta's gunners took on Carlo |
| 1:03.6 | Ancelotti's Galacticos. In the Emirates, our senior football reporter Ian Dennis and former |
| 1:08.4 | Arsenal and West Ham defender, Matthew Upsen. Denner, what's happening at the moment because it's a big win for Arsenal. It's a 3-0 victory against the European champions. |
| 1:17.5 | And they're in a perfect position as they head to the Burnabout next week. But they're still only halfway through it. |
| 1:24.1 | They've got themselves probably a scoreline that many Arsenal fans would only have dreamt about coming into this stadium tonight as the Arsenal anthem, the angel reverberates around the Emirates, the red and white scarves are held aloft. |
| 1:40.3 | They say about the streets are our own. |
| 1:43.3 | This pitch here tonight was Arsenal's own because they absolutely busted the second half. |
| 1:48.0 | They didn't really give the European champions a sniff. |
| 1:52.0 | Two beauty-free kicks from Declan Rice, absolute belters. |
| 1:56.0 | And then Mikhail Marino with an instinctive left-puted effort into the bottom left-hand corner. |
| 2:02.2 | Camovinger sent off right at the end to compound the misery for Real Madrid. |
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