Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Daryl Grove, and I'm joined by a man who's always a knockout.

His name is Taylor Rockwell.

Hello.

Always.

I appreciate that, my friend.

That's a nice way to start the show.

I feel like it's a high compliment, even though I know what you meant in terms of the champions league i want to start

with a smile yeah so we are here to review um atletico madrid versus liverpool and bruscia

dormant versus psg yes um we watched mostly dormant psg at first then we went back and re-watched um

atletico liverpool that's going to be up first yes one. One Liltre-Atlato, Liverpool lost. I can't remember the last time that happened. I think it's been a hundred years since Liverpool last a soccer match. And that game was both dramatic and dull at the same time. Yeah. Drol, I guess. It wasrahul, I don't know what that would be, but yeah, I take your point because...

It was Spanish, so yeah, Drowel.

I think it was basically...

Well done. Well done. That was good. I think it's basically because Adletti did pretty much what you thought they were going to do. Liverpool tried to do the things that we expected Liverpool to do. I think the main difference is that Adletti went up 1-0 in the fourth minute.

And so at that point, you made this point off the air, and I'm stealing it because it's that good, is that I think at that point, Adletti no longer have to counterattack. And so I think Liverpool sort of kept expecting Adleti to try to go at them and try to get another goal. And in reality, I think I'd let it go, we're more than content to not commit numbers forward unless they absolutely needed. They had no need to counter-attack, right? They just had to defend that one-nil lead, which they got in the fourth minute. Shall we start with the Atletti goal? Because this really did turn this tie upside down. I really think so. And also frowns upside down. I want to start with how it was conceded. It was conceded, this corner kick that Atletti scored off of, with the Virgil Van Dyke mistake. Right. And I'm just letting that hang in the air a second. It's strange, right? Because it's such a rare event. It's a strange, like 60 seconds for Virgil Van Dyke, because it's a cross that comes in from Athlete.

He jumps to meet it and I think it deflects off of him goes out of bounds for a throw on the opposite side of the field. So maybe Maratta heads it but then it deflects off of Van Dyke and so they both appeal for it. And you can tell it to murky decision because the AR doesn't point the flag one direction or the other but does that thing where they'll sort of like lift it a little bit to show like, I think it went this way?

Yeah, yeah.

And he, and he's pointing for the ref to decide. Yeah, and he's pointing in the direction of Liverpool. So I think all of Liverpool think it's going to be a Liverpool throw. Yeah. They cut to the replay, which usually means like, oh, the defensive team now have the ball, we can show replay. And then they cut back really fast because the ball's underway because Adletti have taken this rail. So producers were just as confused. Yes, and I think maybe the center official

overruled, maybe the AR the ball, we can show a replay. And then they cut back really fast because the ball's underway because Adletti have taken this rail.

So producers were just as confused.

Yes.

And I think maybe the center official overruled, maybe the AR missed the flick. Because it does look like it hit Virgil Van Dyck. It does look like it should have been that Lettis's throw. And so then I think because Liverpool is sort of discombobulated, ball comes in and Virgil Van Dyke doesn't shape really well.

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