Euro Leagues: Champions League final preview
Football Daily
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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman is joined by Guillem Balague and Julien Laurens as the panel look ahead to PSG against Arsenal in the Champions League final. There's an in-depth analysis of both managers, Luis Enrique and Mikel Arteta. Plus, a closer look at two Ecuador international team mates who could play against each other in the final. Enrique's former assistant Jesus Casas is a special guest.
00:33 Steve Crossman sets the scene in Budapest 02:30 PSG are favourites according to Guillem Balague 05:07 Are Arsenal the biggest team not to have won Europe's top competition? 09:07 Which manager would you take out for dinner? 16:25 Guillem's lunch with Emery 24:35 Interview with Enrique's former assistant Jesus Casas 34:10 Mbappe and Zlatan 47:40 Hincapie and Pacho's former manager Miguel Angel Ramirez joins the show
5 Live / BBC Sounds commentaries: Saturday 1700 - PSG v Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League Final, Sunday 1500 - Brighton & Hove Albion v Man City in the Women’s FA Cup Final.
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| 0:34.5 | On the Football Daily podcast, the Euroleagues with Steve Crosman. |
| 0:41.0 | So tonight then, with your first taste of the Champions League weekend, it's a Euroleaks |
| 0:47.0 | Champions League special. You'll get the broad brushstrokes of the thoughts of the guys |
| 0:51.2 | and then will be inside the mind of both Louis Enrique and also Mikhail Arteta. |
| 0:57.5 | We're also going to speak to the man who launched the careers of Piero Hincapier and William Paco, |
| 1:03.1 | the Ecuadorian teammates who will be on opposite sides of Arsenal against Paris Sanger Man, |
| 1:08.1 | with us in person, live at a little restaurant in Budapest. We've got |
| 1:11.7 | Guillem Ballagay and we've got ESPN's Julian Loron. Hello you two. Good. Hello, |
| 1:15.6 | guys. Now before we do anything else, I just need you to close your eyes as I paint you a picture. |
| 1:20.6 | And this picture is what I call what we could have won. Imagine a boat on the Danube. |
| 1:27.3 | We've got beautiful panoramic views all around us and there is soft |
| 1:31.4 | music playing in the background that is where we were meant to be instead you get the sirens |
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