Euro Leagues: Benfica’s goalscoring goalkeeper & Napoli & Marseille out of Europe
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman is joined by Guillem Balague, James Horncastle and Mina Rzouki to discuss all things European football, including last night's final round of Champions League group stage fixtures.
The team delve into Benfica's late goal which secured them qualification into the playoffs, how Napoli and Marseille got knocked out entirely and whether Bayern should be considered as one of the favourites for the Champions League.
They're also joined by Archie Rhind-Tutt, former Benfica player Diogo Luis, Matt Spiro and Christian Falk throughout the episode.
00:40 - Thoughts on the Champions League league phase format 03:50 - Archie Rhind-Tutt on Anatoliy Trubin's winner for Benfica 09:30 - Diogo Luis on Benfica and Sporting Lisbon qualifying for Champions League knockouts 18:00 - Napoli knocked out of Europe and Antonio Conte's European record 25:30 - Matt Spiro on Marseille and Roberto De Zerbi 33:40 - Christian Falk on Bayern Munich losing their unbeaten Bundesliga record and their Champions League hopes 39:50 - Schalke sign Edin Dzeko 43:45 - What would the panel change about the Champions League format?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
| 0:12.7 | But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, |
| 0:18.2 | The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials |
| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. |
| 0:25.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:30.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.7 | On the Football Daily podcast, the EuroLeaks with Steve Crossman. |
| 0:41.5 | Hello there, welcome to the Euroleagues. |
| 0:43.5 | We have got a lot to get through on this week's episode. |
| 0:46.8 | Ben Fika's goalkeeper scoring in the last minute to sneak Jose Marino's side into the playoff round. |
| 0:51.7 | Sporting's late winner taking them through automatically, Napoli and Marseille out all together. We are going to have guests joining us |
| 1:00.6 | from Paris, from Lisbon, from Munich with us throughout. Guillem Balagay, the Athletics, James |
| 1:06.3 | Horncastle and Mina Razuki. Hi everybody. Good evening. Oh, I'm so excited. |
| 1:12.7 | This is what it's all about. |
| 1:20.8 | And I know James that there were detractors and there'll always be detractors for the new phase and the Swiss model and all of that. |
| 1:25.5 | This was undeniably a box office night of European football. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.8 | And I think it gave us one of the great moments, |
| 1:31.3 | not only in this format history, |
| 1:33.5 | but Champions League history, |
| 1:35.6 | with what happened in Lisbon, |
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