Hello, hello, and welcome to the totaled soccer show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and it is time to review the second best champions league in the world and what a semifinal round it was.

PSG punished the woodwork and then themselves and their loss to Perusia Dortmund,

while Real Madrid remained inevitable against Bayern Munich with a little help from a trigger-happy assistant referee. We've got lots to break down, a final to preview, a soundproofing barrier to hang back up, which is why I'm still recording with my hands in the air for Graham and Joe. Here with me discuss it all, and unfortunately talk about VAR, our two fine fellows. Up first, a man who loves a lengthy video assistant referee discourse. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. Oh, I get to go first with those unions. I get to defer to Graham and Taylor on all the refereeing conversations. I'm just going to sit back and watch as Taylor truly does try to piece together his environment that he's recording in after he did absolutely knock stuff down in his

intro. Taylor, that was fantastic. Is that a Roma flag that's falling down? Quite appropriate for

their season at the moment, if that's, if that's collapsing. I don't know how I became the

Roma defender slash Daniel Darasi lover. Yeah, that's how. I'm sorry that some of us appreciate a manager who's legendary and has a wonderful beard. With us is the man who you just heard, who much like Gary Neville, has never shaken Louis Enrique's hand. It's Graham Ruffin. Hello, Graham. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. Yes, I have never shaken Lewis. Enrique, sorry, I thought I said Louis Suarez. That's even more dangerous. I've got a Louis- Louis Suarez bottle opener in my kitchen, which is where I was going to go with that. I do not have a

Luis Enrique bottle opener. I'm not even sure what that would look like. Skinny, I think. I don't

know if either one of you saw that story then, but it was Gary Neville talking about when he was

briefly the Valencia manager and after they lost, he went to shake Luis Enrique's hand, and Luis Enrique ghosted him and just walked right by him and refused to stop, and that was his impression.

So that definitely informed by Champions League viewing a little bit. Maybe it should not have.

But Joe, we're going to start with, let's go with Dortmund PSG, and then we'll let you just go really at length about VAR in the second game.

Pass.

But this was not what I was really expecting, I have to say, nor the bookmakers.

I looked it up prior to the start of the Champions League campaign.

Dortmund had the 12th best odds to win the whole thing.

They were sandwiched between the two Milan clubs.

And at first I thought, like, oh, that's actually pretty high until you realize that it falls off pretty precipitously after the first, like, seven or eight teams.

Ra Madrid, for example, had the third best odds. So to have Dortmund here is quite a story, I have to say.

Yeah, I had Dortmund still even after their one-0 win in the first leg back in Germany.

I had them as my fourth most likely team to advance from these two semifinals when we did that

little game at the end of the first leg episode.

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