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

FC podcast. Hello, R Rank Squad and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Rank's FC for the second time this week.

And we have our quarter final lineup.

Four more teams have joined the four who books their spots yesterday. And we're

going to discuss the four round of 16 games that got them there over the course of this episode.

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

from San Diego. It's Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? All right. I just had to duck,

actually, because Vinny Jr.'s penalty just went over our house. It was, I've just had to get

out the way of that one. That was a crazy nightmare. That's what the Champions League's

all about. I mean, what a competition we've had this year, like, for the new league stage and that's led to

this level of knockout games in the last 16.

Like obviously there's now high profile exits and there's controversy and there's drama,

but it's good.

Like it's exciting. It's captivating. It's but it's good like it's it's exciting it's captivating it's it's

proper champions league storylines um and look real Madrid don't really deserve to still be in

the competition but they are um and they're probably... I'm tired of it, Dean.

I'm tired of it, mate.

Year in, year out, they just somehow scum their way to the semi-files.

And then, to their credit, they start playing and they, you know, often deserve to win it.

And that's fine.

But like yesterday, we sat here after the PSG Liverpool game, you know, two teams, which we don't

follow, either of us, two teams here that we don't follow. And I talked about the fact that a team

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