Euro Leagues: A week of semi-finals and Como's promotion push
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman rounds up the week’s biggest European football stories, starting in Piraeus where Olympiakos became the first Greek club side for more than 50 years to reach a European final after knocking out Aston Villa.
Greek football journalist Kostas Lianos gives his reaction alongside Ian Dennis, Neil Lennon and Rachel Corsie.
Guillem Balagué and Julien Laurens join Steve to reflect on the Champions League semi-final second legs that saw Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund book their places in the final, and Bayer Leverkusen scoring late against Roma to extend their unbeaten run.
Plus, we’re in Como where the club backed by Thierry Henry and Cesc Fàbregas, are on the brink of promotion to Serie A under welsh manager, Osian Roberts.
00:45 - Olympiakos 2-0 Aston Villa (6-2 agg) Reaction 03:38 - Kostas Lianos 13:53 - Unai Emery reaction 14:40 - Guillem and Julien join the pod 15:30 - Real Madrid – Bayern Munich reaction 21:20 - What has Bayern’s Champions League run done for Tuchel? 24:18 - PSG – Borussia Dortmund reaction 31:52 - Bayer Leverkusen’s unbeaten run continues 34:06 - Como on the brink of Serie A
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| 0:40.0 | On the Football Daily Podcasts, this is the Euro leagues with Steve Crossman. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello there, welcome to the Euro leagues. |
| 0:49.0 | So much to get through will crack straight on and start in Piraeus where Olympic Arcos have become the first |
| 0:55.2 | Greek side for more than 50 years to reach a European final. They'll play Fiorentina in the conference |
| 1:01.2 | league final after beating Astonville a 2-0 on the night and 6-2 on aggregate |
| 1:06.2 | Villa and Scotland Captain Rachel Corsi has been watching with us Neil Lennon is alongside |
| 1:10.7 | our senior football reporter Ian Dennis in the stadium in Piraeus and |
| 1:15.5 | the celebrations Ian they are just gonna go on and on and long into the night. |
| 1:20.9 | Well it's just turned midnight here so they're definitely going to go out into the early |
| 1:26.0 | hours that is for sure as the entire coaching staff and the players have just walked up to the |
| 1:31.1 | end to our left that's where the altars are, the hardcore supporters, |
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