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.

This is your look at Wednesday's action from the first leg of the round of 16 ties four games tonight, the early game by a Leibucucucine holding Arsenal to a one all draw.

And then the later games, we saw Real Madrid crush Manchester City, 3-0 at the Bernabeo.

PSG come from a strange first half to win 5'2 at the death against Chelsea and another absolute masterclass from Birdo Glimp

as they dismantled sporting 3-0 in the Arctic Circle. My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your

host today and joining me across the water. It's the one and only Mr Dean Jones. How you doing, mate?

Yeah, I'm okay, mate. English football in the mud again.

I might need counselling after all of this because I'm a big EPL advocate, mate.

I wave the flag.

I waived the flag.

And our teams are getting pastings everywhere they go. England get battered everywhere they go,

don't know, yeah. I don't know what the expectations were of Man City in terms of

progressing past Real Madrid, given history, et cetera, et cetera, given state of their own season and their ups and downs.

But I don't think they would have expected this, mate.

I don't think so.

I don't think any of us were expecting this thing.

It's a weird one.

Obviously, covering Real Madrid in relative detail on the podcast across our Patreon,

we look at this team. and for the last couple of weeks

there has just been a sense of everything sort of falling apart around Real Madrid.

That, you know, the kind of early initial moments of our Arbor Loa's reign had given way to

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