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. It's the final Champions League takeaway of the inaugural group stage of the Champions

League.

And there was drama a lot as 18 games took place at the same time.

16 of them with something riding on them.

We're here to break down all of the action from a mad Wednesday in the Champions League.

My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host then.

Joining me across the watch from San Diego. It's Mr Dean Jones.

Hey, doing, mate.

Yeah, I'm good, mate.

I guess I'm kind of pleased that that's happened in the middle of the day for me rather

than last thing at night.

Be hard to go to bed after this, I think, if you're still buzzing from that.

Luckily for you, I mean, you stay awake until about three in the morning, so you don't

have that issue. I have to. I'm honest to where it is.

Yeah. So you don't have that issue. But, well, that was pretty wild, mate. It was fun.

Well, they were calling it manic match day, I think, or the match day of mayhem on CBS I saw in the United States.

I mean, it was so American. I mean, that, that, this, this, this, um, whole format was shown today to be very

Americanized, I thought, um, the, the drama of it, the kind of format of the tables and

the kind of automatics and then the playoffs and then the elimination zone, all these kinds of

things.

It's like, there's this ongoing talk about one day the Champions League final

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