Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you League takeaway here on Ranks, F.C.

My name's Jack Collins, and I will be your host today as we take a look back at the first

legs of the Champions League semifinals. Two very different games,

two ties poised on a knife edge ahead of the second legs. PSG 5, Bayern Munich, 4 at the

Park de France yesterday in Paris. And Atlasko Madrid won, Arsenal won at the Metropolitano in Madrid today.

So there is plenty of chances for all four of these to make that showpiece event in Budapest.

We'll work through both of these games, the thrills, the skills, the skills and of course the

controversies as well. I'm joined by the one and only Mr. Dean Jones. Are you doing, mate? Yeah, I'm good. It's very poetic, mate. Nice little bit of rhyming there, throwing it back to the old school. I'm good. I can hear you very clearly, Jack, because I've got new headphones. The headphones that I've previously been wearing were bought during COVID.

And when I say they were falling apart, I'm not lying, am I?

No.

One of the ear, what are they called?

The muff things, you know, like the padded things, whatever they are.

That had literally fallen off.

For the last couple of weeks before I've been recording, it's just been

this like plastic stuck to my ear. I look very weird. Just well, this isn't a YouTube video.

But anyway, I've invested new pair of cans on there. Look at that. Mate, this is great because

we don't know who's going to be in the final. That's what I like the most about right now. Things we love, absolutely no idea he's going to be in the final. What about you? Yeah, I mean, look, I'm completely with you. It was two very different days, as I say, but two games I thought were intriguing in their own way. And there'll be a lot of people that

roll their eyes at that, right, after the kind of difference between them. I think that

Tuesday's game between PSG and Byron was an absolute feast of entertainment. It was,

you know, helter-skelter. It was two teams just going at each other with pure attacking prowess.

But also we'll talk a little bit about some of the defensive aspects of that as well and some of those things that were missing. Today's game between Arsenal and Leti felt far more like a normal Champions League semi-final. And I think when you kind of hold it up to the light of what yesterday was, people would look at it me like, oh, that was really boring.

And look, it wasn't, you know, thrill a minute for the entirety of the 90 minutes by any

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