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Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

Champions League Takeaway: Bodø/Glimt Make History, Sørloth Shines for Simeone, Newcastle Finish the Job & Leverkusen Dull Olympiacos

Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

Big Pond Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer

4.9683 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It's your first helping of Champions League Takeaway for the week, looking back at all of Tuesday's action from the Second Legs of the Playoff Round!

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.

0:27.0

Hello, Rank's and welcome to Champions League Takeaway.

0:30.9

This is Ranks FC, your favourite Intercontinental Football Podcast.

0:33.5

My name is Jack Collins, and I'll be your host today. And joining me on a momentous night in the Champions League is the one and only Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Yeah, I was a little bit worried that there wouldn't be much to talk about tonight. I thought if it all goes the way of the favourites, it could be a pod that's a bit predictable, but that's definitely not what we got, was it? Well, I say it's not predictable. Maybe it should be predictable. Boto

0:54.8

glimped to the team of the season. Maybe we should have predicted them to go and win.

0:59.4

Team of the season before they've even kicked off their own domestic season as well.

1:02.8

That's absolutely unbelievable in terms of what they're putting together. But an incredible

1:07.9

night, they become the first Norwegian side to make the knockout rounds proper of the Champions League.

1:14.5

And in doing so, knockout last year's finalists into 5-2 on aggregate.

1:19.5

They had the 3-1 home leg advantage going into the second leg, but they have won at San Ciro.

1:25.4

And the man at the heart of it all, the man, the truth, the legend,

1:29.7

Yens Petahaga, with one goal and one assist here.

1:33.5

Dean, when I was looking back through a couple of tweets to basically find out some old

1:37.0

things that had been said about Yen's Petahaga, I was listening to us from a patron episode

1:42.4

in 2020, a clip that we'd made where it's just

1:45.2

like, this guy is the truth.

1:46.9

This guy is the real deal.

1:48.4

We were talking about his move to Milan.

1:50.0

Now, obviously, that didn't age particularly well in terms of that move didn't pan out,

1:54.4

as anyone would have hoped, nor really did the Intract Frankfurt one, although I had a little

1:58.4

bit more success.

2:00.0

But there's this moment,

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