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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

Did Ancelotti’s magic wear off for Real Madrid? | Champions League Review

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

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Soccer, News, Sports News, Sports

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With Ryan doing his best to remain level-headed on an 8-hour road trip with family, it's left to Graham, Joe and Taylor to break down this week's Champions League results. All 4 winners from the first leg advanced to the next round, but there was considerable drama along the way... except in Madrid, where Los Blancos weren't able to find their customary spark. So, who is the favorite to win it all, and what will Graham do without John McGinn in the competition?


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0:00.0

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Registered by the 5th of September to get started The Open University The Future is Open The Future is Open me. Hello. Hello everybody and welcome to the total soccer Show. It's Champions League Review Time. My name is Taylor Rockwell, and what a week it was. It was somehow still tense and exciting, even though all the teams that won the first leg, with a combined goal difference of 10, managed to advance to the semi-final round. You wouldn't have thought that would be dramatic and exciting, but it was.

1:11.5

Real Madrid, we're definitely going to find a way back into this one, but Bukaiusaka's late goal at the Bernabow and the fact that Madrid only defended with like five players the whole game, put this one out of reach. PSG demonstrated what happens when you start feeling yourself, throw Lucho's 400-page game plan out the window and wing it as they held on for Dear Life as Ashton Villa scored

1:11.2

three unanswered and pushed them to the very end.

1:33.1

Inter took advantage of their set pieces to eliminate Byron Munich.

1:35.9

Barcelona won by losing to set up their date in the semifinal round.

1:39.4

So it's now Arsenal versus PSG, Barcelona versus Inter.

1:43.1

Some very exciting fixtures to come. But first, some very interesting games to discuss. Graham Ruthven, no more Holland, no more Bellingham, no more Mbap, no more Salah or Vinny Jr. And most sadly of all, no more John McGinn. How are you on this strange fine day? I'm very well, Taylor. I'm still mourning John McGinn's exit from the

2:01.2

Champions League. He did his best. It was a real sort of Stephen Gerard and Istanbul sort of

2:05.9

captain's performance with that goal and then just getting that backside about the pitch

2:11.2

with gleeful abandon. So I'm excited to talk about today's games. Are you excited to talk about

2:16.8

the Champions League, Taylor? Or like the Villa Park DJ. Are you excited to talk about the Champions League Taylor or like the Villa Part DJ?

2:19.3

Do you actually wish this was the Europa League?

2:21.8

Did you catch that before the game?

2:23.5

I did not.

2:25.0

So the players lined up for the anthem, the famous Champions League anthem.

2:29.5

Wrong anthem played Europa League music.

2:31.4

Everyone very confused.

2:32.6

Una Emery.

2:33.4

Delighted.

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