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

FC podcast. Hello, Ranks, Gordon. Hello, Ranks, Gord, and welcome to Champions League Takeaway here on Ranks FC.

My name is Jack Collins, and I'll be your host as we go through the first day of the first

leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.

Two massive games,

Real Madrid hosting Bayern Munich at the Benabéo

and Arsenal travelling to the Gisier-Avalad to play sporting wins

for Arsenal and for Bayern Munich.

And I'm joined to work through all by the one and only Mr Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Hello, mate, yeah, I'm good, yeah. Well, you got the better game tonight. I said I'd take

the Arsenal game. I'm very, I've been very supportive of the gunners this season, haven't I?

The tide's slightly changing on that, but we'll talk about that later because I really want to

hear more about the Realm Madrid Dragente. You were watching.

Yeah, I think it's the natural place to start. Byrne winning for the first time in a long

while at the Bernabeo. This has been the scene of plenty of Champions League disappointments

for Bayern Munich. And I heard this described ahead of the game

as the European Classico, which I really like. That is a good one, yeah.

Enjoyed that as a description, two absolute giants, two teams who have such a rich tapestry

of history in this competition. And I was intrigued to kind of see what Real Madrid looked like, really ahead of this one,

because I think it was pretty comfortable that I knew how Bayern were going to set up.

And the question was going to be after what happened at the weekend with Real Madrid

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