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

FC podcast. Hello, Ranks Squad and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Ranks FC, the show that takes all the Champions League action and delivers it to you in bite-sized portions.

My name is Jack Collins, and I'll be your host today and joining me all the way

across the Atlantic, Mr Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Very good, mate. Yeah, the Premier League

rules at the moment, mate, when it comes to the Champions League. We've got Aston Villa, top of the

Champions League, second place, Liverpool, third place, Manchester City.

We're ruling it, mate.

Do you know the funniest thing, actually?

I was just looking at the table just to see where we're at after three games.

Fourth is Monaco.

Fifth is Brest.

You've got two French teams there.

You've got PSG down in 19th.

Oh, what a weird old league we're looking at at the moment.

But yeah, what a fun couple of days, mate. There's a couple of staggering results, a couple of crazy games. A few in between

are really hard to keep tabs on. But all in all, it's another good game work. Yeah, I've really enjoyed it.

And we're going to work through all of the action today.

And lots to get through.

So I think we should just get stuck into it.

And I think the only place to start with Wednesday's action was Barcelona 4, Bayern Munich 1.

And my first takeaway from this game, Dean, is that Barcelona are definitely back

in the conversation. They're not perfect, especially defensively, and we'll talk a little bit

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