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

Hello, Ranks Squad and welcome to a bumper edition of Champions League takeaway, following on from the final match day of the Champions League.

18 games at once.

They're calling it midweek mayhem. They're calling it Wild Wednesday. We've got the breakdown of all of it here on Ranks FC. My name's Jack Collins, and I will be your host today. And joining me across the water, it's the one and only Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Yeah, that was good fun. That was enjoyable. That was a lot, is how I would describe it.

Yeah, I didn't need to get as overwhelmed as you because I know that you do the heavy lift.

That's probably how I feel on transfer deadline Eve or transfer deadline day is how you probably just felt on whatever you call this day.

Yeah, midweek mayhem.

Madness, mate. Let's go. Let's get stuck into it. Let's rattle through it.

Yeah, I mean, it was really quite a lot. 18 games. I've put about 2,000 words down in notes over the last two hours, Dean. There was steam off the keyboard at times. This is my Everest

in many ways, this 18 gamers.

So I have enjoyed myself, but it's been a bit chaotic.

And I think maybe what you would do to start with is just read out the table and then we'll get into some of these games.

So the top eight, there's eight teams who skip this playoff round and go straight into the last 16.

Our Arsenal, top of the league,

eight from a 24 points. No draws, no losses, eight wins. Very, very impressive from Arsenal.

Byron in second, Liverpool in third, Tottenham in fourth, Barcelona in fifth, Chelsea in sixth,

sporting in seventh. What a story that is. And Mancity in eighth, which means

you'll notice the Real Madrid occupy the first playoff spot down in ninth after one of the

wildest evenings we've seen in a long, long time at the Estadio del Luzh, coming up against former

boss, Jaze Marini. We're going to start there. But they're joined in the playoffs by Inter-P-SG, Newcastle, Juve, Athletico, Madrid, Atalanta, and Leva Cousson will be the seeded team, so all of them will play at home second. And then the unseeded teams are Barissia Dortmund, Olympiacos, Club Brugger, Galatasarite, Monaco, Carabag, Burdo Glimm, tell of a story there as

well, and Benfica will get to them. It means the teams that are going home who are out of the

competition are Olympic Marseille, Phafos, Union San Gilauella, PSVe Ainthoven, Athletic Club,

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