Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks, Squorn, and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

And what a night of Champions League action we have to talk about.

42 goals across nine games in the competition.

It was chaotic.

It was raining goals at one point in the second half.

So we're going to break it all down for you.

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

away from San Diego.

It's Mr Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Yeah, I'm okay, mate. We needed a little time, didn't we, to get our heads around this one. I mean, we never give ourselves too long because we like to do instant reactions, but normally we're jumping on within like 10, 15 minutes of the game's ending, but tonight we're, what, half hour. So we've got a little bit longer because we need to make sure we were up to speed with what we'd just seen. And I mean, I've only really got to focus on two games. You've got to watch however many else there were in the night. And I don't know how you've done that, to be honest, because I struggled with two. It was, it was a chaotic evening. There were a lot of screens going on. And normally know you get a couple of games you're like okay that one sort of by the by and when I sat down earlier to watch the two

early kickoffs I was like these are two really interesting games they've been really intriguing

across you know both of them they might end up a little bit higher up the pecking order today

than perhaps they normally would do no No chance, not a chance. I could spend half an hour here talking to you about how good

sporting were against Clubbrugger. I thought they were absolutely outrageous. I thought that it was one of

the best team performances I've seen from sporting in a long time. And yet they're going to come

into this order at like seventh. So that's how good a night of Champions League action it time. And yet they're going to come into this order at like seventh.

So that's how good a night of Champions League action it was and so many big storylines for us to get across.

We're going to start though in North London at the Emirates where Arsenal have taken

control over the Champions League table with a 3-1 win over Bayern Munich, meaning they're the only team

left perfect in the competition after five match weeks. You were across this one. And one,

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