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Chaos and controversy: Bayern Munich v Real Madrid was an instant classic: Football Weekly Extra

Football Weekly

The Guardian

Sports, Soccer

4.59.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Archie Rhind-Tutt and Jonathan Liew to discuss Wednesday’s Champions League action. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/footballweeklypod. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FootballWeeklyPodcast

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:13.6

Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly.

0:15.5

There were two football matches in the Champions League last night. One was absolutely brilliant.

0:18.9

At the Alliance Spine Munich 4, Real Madrid 3, 6-4 and aggregate in the end for the Germans.

0:23.8

They went into the game ahead, stayed ahead for 30 seconds before Real Madrid leveled it up.

0:27.7

Arda Gula's lovely finish after Manuel Noyes' mistake.

0:30.3

Byrne came back, Gula put Madrid up again, came for 2-2, and Bapé four minutes later.

0:35.2

Then in the second half, it slowed down a bit. Camovina, getting a soft second yellow, Louis Diaz scoring Michael Alisei, wrapping it all up beautifully. By and deserved it. Real Madrid are blaming it all on the refereff for a change, but thank you to everyone involved. 10 out of 10, a tour de force. Meanwhile, at the Emirates, Arsenal did enough, just enough. Artetta called for fire. There wasn't even a spark, but they are in the semifinals of the Champions League.

0:55.7

The only Premier League side to be there, and they defended pretty well. They do defend pretty well. The rest of it isn't pretty. You don't have to watch it. I mean, we have to watch it. Q existential questions about the point of it all. We'll look ahead to the title decider at the Etty Head. How will Arsenal approach that one?

1:09.7

Defensively, you'd imagine, there's the biggest Merseyside Derby for a while.

1:12.7

Roberto Deserby's inevitable defeat at the Etty Head, how will Arsenal approach that one? Defensively, you'd imagine.

1:27.6

There's the biggest Merseyside Derby for a while. Roberto Deserby's inevitable defeat at the hands of Brighton and some big live show news for the pod. All that plus your questions and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Barry Glendanning, welcome. Hello. Hello, Johnny Lou. Hi, Max. And good morning, Archie Wintutt.

1:28.4

Hey, Max.

1:27.6

We begin at the Alliance. Hello. Hello, Johnny Lou. Hi, Max. And good morning, Archie Wintutt.

1:28.4

Hey, Max.

1:33.7

We begin at the Alliance, Bayern 4, Real Madrid 3.

1:38.7

And one of those games I don't really know how to analyze because it was so thrilling.

1:42.9

Archie, my notes are in chronological order, but go where you want.

1:45.0

What a brilliant game of football. From the moment that Manuel Neuer misplaced that pass, it was almost as if, it's weird because sometimes after such a great first leg, it can take a while to get going in a second leg.

1:58.0

And yet that one, it felt like the film that we were watching a week ago

2:02.6

just continued exactly where it left off. Because just the chaos that we saw from that. And to be

2:12.5

honest, because who was expecting Manuel Noir to make that kind of mistake, even if he's actually

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