Champions League Debrief: Guardiola confident ahead of Club Brugge showdown
Football Daily
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Pep Guardiola says he's confident Manchester City will qualify for the Champions League knockout stages when they take on Club Brugge on Wednesday. But is that confidence justified?
Kelly Cates is joined by correspondent John Murray, ex-Man City midfielder Michael Brown and former Aston Villa player Thomas Hitzlsperger to preview the final round of matches.
They also look at Aston Villa's attempt to secure a Top Eight spot against Celtic, and see if Liverpool and Arsenal are in for a straightforward night after confirming their qualification for the knockout stages.
TIMECODES 03:45 "Unthinkable" for Man City not to qualify; 05:00 Pep Guardiola on feeling confident ahead of the game. 15:00 Can Club Brugge cause Man City problems? 18:00 Aston Villa v Celtic (featuring Celtic podcaster Paul John Dykes) 28:50 Liverpool and Arsenal's final matches 31:00 Real Madrid, PSG and Bayern - the other key stories to look for
BBC Sounds / 5 Live European commentaries this week:
Wednesday 29th January CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Manchester City v Club Brugge 2000 KO – 5 Live CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Aston Villa v Celtic 2000 KO – Sports Extra Thursday 30th January EUROPA LEAGUE: FCSB v Manchester United 2000 KO – 5 Live Saturday 1st February PREMIER LEAGUE: Bournemouth v Liverpool 1500 KO – 5 Live PREMIER LEAGUE: Wolves v Aston Villa 1730 KO – Starts on Sports Extra and moves to 5 Live for Second Half
Sunday 2ND February WOMENS SUPER LEAGUE: Manchester City v Arsenal 1200 KO – Sports Extra PREMIER LEAGUE: Manchester United v Crystal Palace 1400 KO – 5 Live PREMIER LEAGUE: Brentford v Spurs 1400 KO – Sports Extra PREMIER LEAGUE: Arsenal v Man City 1630 KO – 5 Live WOMENS SUPER LEAGUE: Tottenham v Manchester United 1845 KO – Sports Extra
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| 0:00.0 | Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful British manager of all time. |
| 0:05.0 | Nobody is above him or this football club. |
| 0:08.0 | So how did an apprentice toolmaker from Glasgow become one of the most iconic figures in sporting history? |
| 0:15.0 | His strength of character, his determination, the fight on him. |
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| 0:21.4 | I'm Kelly Cates, and this is Sporting Giants, Sir Alex Ferguson. |
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| 0:36.2 | The Football Daily Podcast. The Football Daily Podcasts. |
| 0:38.9 | With Kelly Kitts. |
| 0:44.5 | Hello and welcome. Wednesday sees the final round of matches in this season's Champions |
| 0:49.7 | League group stage. All 18 matches taking place at the same time, we're going to be previewing all the key headlines. |
| 0:56.6 | Correspondent John Murray, former Manchester City Midfielder Michael Brown and the ex-Aston Villa player, |
| 1:01.4 | Thomas Hitzelsberger, are with us. |
| 1:03.5 | Thomas, this has created quite a dramatic final round of matches, hasn't it? |
| 1:07.4 | Well, absolutely. |
| 1:08.2 | I'm excited, but just the fact that everybody kicks off at the same time, you know, we look at this big |
| 1:12.6 | table, it's really, really exciting, so many teams got something to play for. |
| 1:17.6 | I think this new format has really worked out well at this stage where we're at, so I'm looking |
| 1:22.6 | forward to tomorrow night. |
| 1:23.6 | Michael could be a bit nervy at times. It could be, |
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