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

FC podcast. Hello, Ranks Squad. Hello, Ranks Squad and welcome to Champions League

Takeaway here on Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast for the first time this week,

looking back at all of Tuesday's Champions League action.

And there were some big, big names in action tonight.

It's been a very, very intriguing evening in the Champions League.

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

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

How you doing, mate?

Hello, mate.

Yeah, I'm good.

I'm good.

I just watched a belter of a game. So I'm happy. I'm happy to watch a big game that lived up to expectations. Yeah. I mean, it's where we're going to start. We're going to start at Amfield with Liverpool's win over Real Madrid. I did think about it. I was like, is it Liverpool, Real Madrid top? Is it PSG Bayern top? We're talking about two of the biggest clubs in the world in Liverpool and Madrid, probably the two best teams in Europe so far this season in PSG and Bayern. It was a toss up. But alas, we're going to go to Armfield certs. You always go with royalty first, mate, and that's what we've got in this fixture.

Betis weren't playing today.

You know, this is a matchup that you've just always, always got to make sure that you watch,

no matter what season it is because of the pedigree that exists.

And it was a really good game.

And it's an unbelievable win for Liverpool from every perspective, to be honest.

Firstly, for the fans who have got one over on Trent, which they would have wanted coming

into the game, first and foremost, they wouldn't have wanted him scoring or succeeding in

beating them. So that was good for them.

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