Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks Squad and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Ranks FC, the first Champions League takeaway of 2025.

And what a couple of days of football we have to talk about thrills and spills absolutely everywhere,

pleasure and pain in equal amounts as we come towards the denouement of this Champions League

League stage for the first time in history.

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

water in San Diego.

It's Mr Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Yeah, I'm good, mate.

I mean, this new format of the Champions League is certainly taken everybody by surprise,

not least of all, some of the best teams in Europe who don't seem to know how to actually deal with this kind of situation.

It's like, okay, well, like, teams like breast are managing to deal with it.

But if you're like a giant of European football, you're like Real Madrid or PSG or Man City,

you've been like, what's going on here?

And we're now in a situation where we might probably will have a high profile exit of some

sort. So yeah, I think the last couple of days have been pretty wild and I'm excited to get

stuck into it. Yeah, I mean, I think we could have started on either day today, right? There

were absolute madnesses across both days, but we will start with the action that's just finished,

Wednesday night's action. And the headline tie of this was Manchester City visiting Paris,

Saint-German. Now, this would have been a big game, no matter where the two teams were in the

league table. It would have been a big game considering the position of both managers,

not necessarily that either are going to be removed from their jobs, but also both ex-Barsalona

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