Champions League Preview: Aston Villa, Arsenal & Liverpool against Europe's best
Football Daily
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🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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John Bennett presents a preview to the Champions League Last 16 first legs. Rory Smith and Nedum Onuoha join John as the Champions League RO16 first legs approach.
Aston Villa travel to Club Brugge with January signings Marco Asensio and Marcus Rashford in fine form. A tie against Liverpool or PSG would await Unai Emery if Villa can get past the Belgian Pro League side.
With a 13-point gap between league-leaders Liverpool and Arsenal, the Champions League is now Mikel Arteta’s last realistic chance at silverware this season, but they’ll face a stern test from Dutch outfit PSV Eindhoven.
It’ll be 1st in England vs 1st in France when Arne Slot’s Liverpool travel to PSG. The panel looks at two of Europe’s most in-form players in Mo Salah and Ousmane Dembele.
Outside of the Premier League teams, Real Madrid host Atletico Madrid in a R016 city derby, and the top two in Germany – Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen – come head-to-head. Timecodes: 01:15 The best UCL RO16 draw ever? 03:40 Club Brugge v Aston Villa 13:20 PSV v Arsenal 25:30 Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid 29:55 PSG v Liverpool 35:40 Bayern Munich v Bayer Leverkusen 39:35 Feyenoord v Inter Milan 40:35 Barcelona v Benfica 41:25 Ruben Amorim hits back at Wayne Rooney
European Commentaries on 5 Live / BBC Sounds this week Tuesday at 5:45pm - Club Brugge vs Aston Villa Tuesday at 8pm - PSV Eindhoven vs Arsenal Wednesday at 8pm - PSG vs Liverpool Thursday at 5:45pm - Real Sociedad vs Manchester United (UEL)
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| 0:48.1 | Hello and welcome to the Football Daily podcast with me, John Bennett, at the start of what is a huge week of European football. |
| 0:55.5 | Coming up, we'll preview the first legs of the round of 16 Champions League fixtures. |
| 1:00.4 | On Tuesday, Una Emery's Aston Villa travel to club bruges, should be Atalanta in the playoffs. |
| 1:06.7 | Commentary of that game on 5 live at 545. |
| 1:10.3 | Following that game, live commentary of Arsenal's trip to the Netherlands. |
| 1:14.1 | They'll be taking on PSV Eindhoven. |
| 1:16.4 | And on Wednesday, Champions League tabletopers Liverpool, go to the French capital. |
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