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Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

Champions League Takeaway: Barça’s 7th Heaven, 50 Up for Harry and Mo, Spurs’ New Grit & Liverpool Spark Into Life

Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

Big Pond Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer

4.9683 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It's your second helping of Champions League Takeaway for the week, looking back at all of Wednesday's action from the Second Legs of the Round of 16!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks FC podcast.

0:28.3

Hello, Ranks Squad and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Ranks F.C is your home for the Champions League in podcast form.

0:33.2

Looking back at the second legs of the round of 16 from Wednesday night, the four final teams

0:40.2

have booked their spots in the quarter finals. Liverpool did so overturning a 1-0

0:46.0

away leg deficit with a 4-0 win at Amfield to progress 4-1 and very comfortably in the end. Spurs

0:52.5

put up a better fight than many expected, winning

0:55.2

three two against Adetico Madrid in North London, but ultimately it wasn't enough. And they went

1:02.7

down 7-5 on aggregate, which does feel like a wild scoreline. Byron finished the job that they set

1:09.6

out last week in Bergamo. They won 6-1 in

1:12.7

Bergamo. They won 4-1 tonight in Munich to make that 10-2 on aggregate. And Barcelona put seven

1:20.1

past Newcastle at Camp Now, filled to 60,000 for the first time since the renovations to go

1:27.1

through 8-3 on aggregate.

1:29.6

It was a night for individual accolades as well, both Harry Kane and Mosella, making it to 50

1:36.5

Champions League goals apiece.

1:38.8

So plenty for us to get stuck into.

1:41.3

I'm Jack Collins, and I'll be your host for the next hour or so.

1:44.2

And joining me across the waters, the one and only, Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Hello, mate. Yeah, that was, oh, that Newcastle game. For a moment, I thought it was going to be a classic. I thought we might have a classic on our hand at 2-2. I mean, maybe Barcelona fans will consider it a classic still. but that got away from him that got away from him in the end

2:03.7

yeah I mean maybe Barcelona fans will consider it a classic still, but that got away from them.

2:02.5

That got away from them in the end.

2:04.5

Yeah, I mean, it very much did.

2:06.0

It was to all going into the 45th minute of that game, at which point Kieran Trippier gave

2:12.1

away a penalty.

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