Champions League Debrief: Man City survive scare & Villa Park bedlam

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Man City scrape into the play-offs while Aston Villa & Arsenal reach the last 16. Steve Crossman has all the reaction to a dramatic final round of Champions League games and how the knockout rounds are shaping up. Liverpool top the group phase despite losing, and Celtic are also through. Hear from Pep Guardiola, Unai Emery, Arne Slot, Mikel Arteta and Brendan Rodgers.

02:25 Man City survive Brugge scare 08:20 Pep Guardiola on facing Bayern Munich or Real Madrid 09:55 Aston Villa beat Celtic to reach last 16 12:25 Unai Emery on Watkins & Duran 13:55 Celtic through to the knockouts 15:35 Liverpool top the group phase 16:35 Arne Slot on finishing top & Nallo’s red card 19:00 Arsenal qualify for the knockouts 20:00 Mikel Arteta on qualifying & David Raya injury 25:15 Brendan Rodgers on Celtic ‘pride’ 30:10 Lille make it through in style

BBC Sounds / 5 Live European commentaries this week: Thu 30 Jan 2000 FCSB v Man Utd in the UEFA Europa League

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0:45.0	On the Football Daily Podcasts, the Champions League debrief with Steve Crossman, listen on BBC Sounds.
0:53.1	Hello there. Heck of a night. The first ever Champions
0:56.2	League League phase has finished with a bang. We will go through the whole thing in the next
1:01.2	25 minutes or so. The big news for a while, it looked like Manchester City were on their way out
1:05.9	of the Champions League. They came from behind. They beat Club Bruges by three goals to one. City
1:10.5	finished 22nd.
1:12.3	They will play either Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in the two-legged playoffs to reach the last 16.
1:18.3	So albeit the Etihad in a second, they will find out exactly who they'll play on Friday.
1:22.9	The ties will be played out in the middle of next month.
1:25.7	Whichever of Bayern and Rail Madrid don't play Manchester City,
1:29.0	they will play Celtic.
1:30.8	After they lost 4-2 at Aston Villa,
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