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, the show that gets you through all this week's Champions League action straight after the games have finished on Wednesday night.

There's loads to get through.

My name's Jack Collins and I'll be your host day.

And joining me across the water the afternoon in San Diego.

It's Mr Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Hello, mate.

Yeah, very good.

Thank you.

Yeah, another chaotic week of Champions League action in this new format,

which we're starting to get our heads

around. Unfortunately, there are some big clubs who have not got their heads around this format

and are heading for some dangerous waters, Mike. Choppy waters, I think, for a couple of clubs

at the bottom of it. Some of them pull themselves out with big results this week. Some of them

have continued to struggle. And we're going themselves out with big results this week. Some of them have continued to

struggle. And we're going to start with today's action. It's always a question. Do we start

with Tuesday's action? Do we start with Wednesday's action? How does it all pan out? I think

this week we'll start with Wednesday because I want to open this up with a conversation about

Juventus to Manchester City,

Nill.

Now, when someone asked me about this game beforehand, Dean, I was like, it probably

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