Euro Leagues: Golden coins at Villa, farewell to Griezmann but welcome back Szczesny

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

John Bennett is joined by Guillem Balague, Julien Laurens and Mina Rzouki. After another busy few days in the Champions League, they pick out their moment of the week, discussing Aston Villa, Lille, Real Madrid and Juventus. They also ask why Antoine Griezmann has decided to hang up his boots for France and reflect upon the career of Andres Iniesta. Other topics include whether Luis Enrique was right to leave Ousmane Dembele out of the squad that lost at Arsenal, the return of Wojciech Szczesny and Brest’s brilliant start to life in the Champions League.

Timecodes: 0 min: Introduction. 1.25 Julien Laurens discusses meeting Conor McGregor and the Laurens family derby. 2.35 Mina Rzouki explains why she was so pleased with Juve’s win over Red Bull Leipzig. 4.18 Guillem Balague on Aston Villa’s win over Bayern Munich – including how he got one of the golden coins that were handed out afterwards. 7.10 Lille’s superb win over Real Madrid – and the problems at the Spanish club. 11.50 Why Antoine Griezmann has retired from playing for France. 21.00 Remembering why Andres Iniesta was such a special player. 27.12 Why Luis Enrique left out Ousmane Dembele at PSG on Tuesday – and the message that sent. 34.10 The swift return of Wojciech Szczesny. 39.04 Brest and their brilliant start to life in the Champions League.

Live football coming up on BBC Sounds…. Thursday 3rd October – Porto v Manchester United 8pm ko – Conor McNamara and Paul Robinson. The producer is Rob Schofield. Europa League on 5 Live Saturday 5th October – Manchester City v Fulham 3pm ko – Ian Dennis and Chris Waddle. The producer is Gary Flintoff. Premier League on 5 Live Saturday 5th October – Everton v Newcastle 5.30pm – John Murray and Stephen Warnock. The producer is Rob Schofield. Premier League on 5 Live Sunday 6th October – Aston Villa v Manchester United 2pm ko – John Murray and Clinton Morrison. The producer is George Cummins. Premier League on 5 Live Sunday 6th October – Chelsea v Nottingham Forest 2pm ko – Charlie Slater and Stephen Kelly. Premier League on 5 Sports Extra Sunday 6th October – Brighton v Tottenham 4.30pm ko – Chris Wise and Steve Sidwell. Producer is Rob Nothman. Premier League on 5 live

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0:36.0	UK. So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover. Have a listen on BBC Sounds.
0:47.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. This is Five Live Sports.
0:50.0	The Euro leagues with John Bennett.
0:53.4	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:57.0	Hello and welcome to Euroleagues.
0:59.1	I'm John Bennett and over the next half hour or so we're going to be unpicking some of the biggest stories of the week in European football and by pure coincidence
1:08.7	There's going to be a bit of a theme to the show today retirement, So I'm really hoping none of these three are
1:15.3	poised to post an emotional Instagram post with a five live microphone and
1:19.9	hanging on a peg in a dressing room or anything, a black and white photograph of Steve
1:23.6	crossman maybe. Joining me this week, Gien Balagie, Julian Lorons and Meena Rizzuki.
1:29.7	Hello everyone.
1:31.3	No retirements from Euroleagues before the end of the pod please. How are you?
1:34.9	I'm okay but I will never do a message. I'll just leave you alone. That's it. I'm going gone.
1:40.3	Whatever. Bye. Not respond to our calls.
1:44.8	So coming up, we're going to discuss the Spanish great Andres Iniesta
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