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. My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host there.

And joining me across the water all the way in San Diego is Mr Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Hello, mate.

Yeah, good, good. Probably not as good as? Hello, mate. Yeah, good. Good.

Probably not as good as Chelsea fans are feeling right now, but definitely better than

Barcelona fans are feeling right now. So that's good for me.

Yeah, you're a middle of the road. Middle of the road.

Yeah, I'll say that.

It was a super interesting night of Champions League bits and bobs.

I was kind of intrigued by a load of these games. Now, some of them ended up being damp squibs

and we'll get to them towards the end of the program

and a couple of sort of batterings

that weren't necessarily batterings in real time.

But the big game was obviously at Stamford Bridge

between Chelsea and Barcelona.

Chelsea coming off a game at the weekend that put them second in the Premier League table

and the closest challenges to Arsenal at the top.

Barcelona going within a point of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga with a 4-0 thumping

of athletic club in that first game back at the camp now.

And I was intrigued to see what this looked like because both rotated relatively heavily

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