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, your extra little feast after the Champions League madness here on Ranks FC.

My name is Jack Collins, and I'll be your host today and joining me across the water in San Diego, Mr. Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Hello, mate. Yeah, that's a bit of a crazy day you've just had there.

I mean, still, the day is nowhere near complete for me, but for you, your brain must be fried.

You've done a full day of work.

Then I had to digest all that Champions League, and now you're jumping on to regurgitate everything you just witnessed.

It's been busy today i was on the radio in the morning went into do some fulham stuff came away from that you know sorting it all out

watching all of these games trying to keep across everything it's been a challenge but i've enjoyed it

and a lot of screens a lot of games a lot of goals so it's been exciting we're going to start today

i think, with

Wednesday's action, with the things we've just witnessed while they're fresh in our brains.

And then in part two, we'll discuss all of the Tuesday bits and bobs as well. But then it feels

like the only place we can start is Aston Villa beating Bayern Munich 1-0. Now, before this game,

talking to some Villa fans and looking for

kind of moments of optimism, and I think the mood was pretty good. It was a pretty kind of,

feels a little bit like a free hit in that they coming to Villa Park first game. Last week

felt, I think, a little bit like a warm-up game for the Champions League because young boys felt

like the kind of opposition the Villa could

have met in the Conference League last year, right? And also the artificial pitch, the fact it was

actually so easy for them, all of that kind of combined felt like this was the real moment that

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