Euro Leagues: England’s Champions League dominance and Bayern the team to beat?
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
After another week where five of the six English sides won in the Champions League, Steve Crossman is joined by Guillem Balague, Julien Laurens and Raphael Honigstein to discuss their dominance.
We reflect on another impressive performance from Club Brugge in their 3-3 draw with Barcelona.
Outside of England are Bayern the team to beat? They’re on a 16-game winning run after their 2-1 victory over PSG. Are Luis Enrique’s side starting to show cracks?
Plus, Marcel van der Kraan joins the pod to discuss Ajax after they sacked John Heitinga with the club 8 points off the pace in Eredivisie and bottom of the Champions League table after a fourth European defeat in a row. Could Erik Ten Hag be the man to save their season?
Timecodes: 01:59 – Club Brugge 3-3 Barcelona – Match of the week? 11:37 – Micky van de Ven’s goal – was it even that good? 13:15 – Are we at the start of a period of English Champions League dominance? 28:28 – Bayern the team to beat? 37:40 – Cracks showing at PSG? 44:40 – Ajax sack Heitinga
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| 0:38.2 | On the Football Daily podcast, the Euroleagues with Steve Crossman. |
| 0:46.0 | I sometimes dance along to the theme of the Euroleagues and then I realise that we're on YouTube now, aren't we? |
| 0:51.8 | And I'm making a complete idiot of myself. Is that why you were looking at me like that, Raphael Honnxtine? No. Oh. I always look at you like that. Okay. Okay. Hey, Julianne. Hey, Guillain Balagay. All right. Hello. Hello, hello. I was going to describe you as three absolute faithfuls. And if I did that, I feel like |
| 1:12.5 | Raff will know what I'm talking about, Jules will know what I'm talking about, and Guillaume will not |
| 1:17.9 | have a clue. Is that accurate? 100%. |
| 1:21.1 | You don't have the traitors in Spain, Guilla? No. No. Okay. Well, listen, all I'll say is I play a later. Not now. Not now. In fact, if you're... No spoilers. No spoilers. Zero spoilers on the Euroleagues. You can enjoy the Euroleagues and then you can go in back and watch the traitors. What I would say, Raf, if any of us had the look of one, you've sort of got a bit of an evil genius about you. I've always |
| 1:46.0 | thought that. Is it because of the turtleneck and the white cat that I'm stroking underneath the |
| 1:51.1 | microphone? That's exactly what it is. And the big red button, which nobody knows what it, |
| 1:55.8 | and the trap door underneath me in the studio. All of those things coming together have made |
| 1:59.9 | me feel that way. Yes, there will be no spoilers, fear not. Even if you're listening to this on the Football Daily podcast the following morning, you are safe. But welcome to the Euroleagues. We're going to talk about Bayern Munich's sensational form. We'll ask if cracks are beginning to show at Paris Saint-German. We're going to talk about the Champions League's country protection rule and ask if it needs |
| 2:20.3 | to be scrapped. |
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