Champions League group stage draw - nobody wants to go to paradise
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In a special extra Euro edition, Jimbo, James Horncastle, Raphael Honigstein, Julien Laurens and Alvaro Romeo dissect the Champions League group stage draw.
Ajax, Liverpool, Napoli and Rangers is the group that grabs the headlines. But can Barcelona escape a group containing Bayern and Inter?
Tottenham face a kind draw and the Chris Waddle derby. Just why is Antonio Conte’s Champions League record so bad?
Will Shakhtar provide a fairytale story and cause Real Madrid yet more problems?
Plus why PSG are no joke and why Juve should be afraid.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello there. |
| 0:10.8 | Yes, I know it's Friday and you normally get a day off from us, |
| 0:13.5 | but Thursday night was the draw for the group stage of the new Champions League campaign. |
| 0:19.4 | So we got together the totally Euro crew, James Horncastle, |
| 0:22.9 | Alva Romeo, Julian Lawrence, and of course, Raphael Honnstein, |
| 0:25.5 | for a group chat to see what they made of the names coming out of the hat. |
| 0:30.8 | Here are their thoughts. |
| 0:34.5 | And we're on. |
| 0:35.3 | And it's live. |
| 0:36.6 | It's live. |
| 0:37.4 | Champions League draw, everybody. |
| 0:39.7 | The road to Istanbul or somewhere else if it gets moved again. |
| 0:43.1 | What do you think, guys, Champions League sometimes ends in a shootout, but no one's ever quick on the draw. |
| 0:47.4 | What did you make of the process of deciding the groups? |
| 0:52.1 | I think Ayatouro was loving being there because he was taking forever. |
| 0:56.5 | Literally, even Georgia Marquisites and next to him was like, you can see, come on, come on, |
| 1:00.7 | come on a bit quicker. |
| 1:01.5 | And he was taking forever. |
| 1:03.3 | And then the pronunciation were legendary. |
| 1:06.3 | Well, done, Yayatoui. |
| 1:08.1 | Well, considering what happened last time when they managed to make a big mess of the draw, |
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