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

Hello, Ranks and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Ranks FC.

Yes, you heard that right.

It is a normal Wednesday show.

But as we were looking at things, we're recording a little bit later than usual on Tuesday day after

the Champions League football. We realized that perhaps people didn't really want to hear about the

relegation races around Europe today. We'll post that on for another week. And then we might

just start by doubling down on the Champions League this week. Two episodes of Champions League

Takeaway, one after each night of

the football this week. So that's how we're going to play. My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your

host saying joining me across the wards from San Diego seven hours behind rather than the usual

way. It's Mr Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Yeah, I'm good, mate. We're edging closer together, aren't we? I say I'm good. I've actually had, I haven't had a voice until this morning.

So if I sound a bit croaky people or are a bit congested,

it's because I am a little bit of both.

But trust me, if it was 24 hours ago, I wouldn't have even sounded this good. So at least I'm able to talk about what we've just seen tonight in these four deciders from

this first batch of last 16 games. And obviously it's just concluded with that penalty shoot

out at Amfield. Yeah, I mean, I think this is it, right? It felt like this is the thing that people

are going to be talking about. This is the thing that is going to dominate the headlines. And I thought it was the right time to do it. To be honest, the first

thing I thought about why I was watching this game and thinking about changing this episode was,

what if we did the best games from across Europe this season and ranked those? Because I think

we've just seen over two legs at the very least one of them play out between Liverpool

and PSG and it's a funny old game this is where I wanted to kind of start we'll do this in

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