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

Hello, R Squad and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Ranks FC for the second time this week, looking back at the action from Wednesday and Thursday in the Champions League.

My name is Jack Collins, and I will 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? Hello, mate. Yeah, very good afternoon of viewing here in sunny San Diego. It's hot, it's humid, and Marcus Rashford's made it even warmer, mate. Like, this guy is on fire. He's done it. He's got his first goals. He's got the orange kit on. So he actually looks like a piece of fire. A piece of fire is probably a flame. But there you go. Marcus Rashford's back. Yeah, clearly words are not our strong point here. No, why would they be? A piece of fire is quite exceptional. I mean, look, we divvy up the games as usual, and you were like, I would like Barcelona and Newcastle. So I had no issues with that. I was like, okay, I'll focus on Napoli City, keep an eye on the rest of them as well. But yesterday or Tuesday, you got the short straw. Wednesday, it felt a bit even. And Thursday, you seem to have got the good one. So we'll start with Newcastle 1, Barcelona, too. Yeah, look, I'll just start with Rashford because he's the story of the day. He's going to make all the headlines. His face will be everywhere for the next few days. Go and take his shirt off him.

Go and win it back.

Rashford's here.

There's still a lot of growth needed in Marcus Rashford's all-round game

until we're all convinced he's back to where he should be.

But these are the goals that Rashford used to score in his pomp.

Like the header was a bullet. And the second one is, like, prime when Rashford was on fire up, Man United. Like, that was what he used to do. It's been a while since he hit one like that. It might be. Is it the best goal I've ever seen him score? It might be. It might be. It's definitely a big, clean strike, isn't it?

See, like everyone talks about that one.

He got against Chelsea that time as being the best goal he scored.

But in terms of the circumstances, the pressure, just the natural flow of it, I thought was awesome from Rashford.

So, absolutely delighted for him to

to have this moment. Obviously, the fact that his big Barcelona breakthrough comes on English soil

is fitting, I guess. Like maybe he just felt more comfortable in the surroundings to make this

be his big entry point in the Basa.

I was going to say Basa Colors.

It completely was not Basa Colors, was it that?

On TV, it kind of looks pink at times, but then you get close to it, and it's orange.

It's a very strange colour, but it stood out, and so did Marcus Rashford.

Do you know what?

Newcastle did all right.

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