Euro Leagues: Italian drama & Diego Simeone’s future
Football Daily
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman and the panel react to an action packed couple of nights in the Champions League. Julien Laurens, Mina Rzouki &, Guillem Ballagué give their reaction to a busy week for Italian clubs including Juventus’ near comeback, Atalanta’s late win over Borussia Dortmund and, Inter Milan’s shock defeat to Bodø/Glimt.
In Spain, Real Madrid survived an early scare against Benfica to progress to the next round. Benfica had a plethora of chances. This doesn’t feel like a particularly strong Real Madrid side like the ones of old.
Atletico Madrid are through to an eighth Champions League Round of 16 stage under Diego Simeone, but will it be his last? Had they gone out could it have been a different story for the Argentine.
TIME CODES 00:00 Intro 01:00 Inter Milan fall to Bodø/Glimt 12:30 Juventus knocked out 14:00 Is there an Italian football crisis? 24:30 Atalanta’s late drama to go through 31:02 Real Madrid scrape past Benfica 34:35 The Kylian Mbappe situation 43:33 Atletico Madrid & Diego Simeone’s future
5 Live / BBC Sounds commentaries: Sat 1500 Liverpool v West Ham, Sat 1500 Newcastle v Everton on Sports Extra, Sat 1730 Leeds v Man City, Sun 1200 Rangers v Celtic, Sun 1400 Man Utd v Crystal Palace, Sun 1400 Fulham v Tottenham on Sports Extra, Sun 1400 Brighton & Hove v Nottingham Forest on Sports Extra 2, Sun 1630 Arsenal v Chelsea.
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| 0:41.1 | On the Football Daily podcast, the Euroleagues with Steve Crosman. |
| 0:46.5 | Welcome to the Euroleague's usual thing on the show reflecting on all of this week's big Champions League stories from Bodo Glimp, knocking out last year's finalist Inter to Gallatas, |
| 0:57.0 | I spoiling Juventus' epic comeback and Atalanta, their fight back to beat Dortmund with the last kick of the game. |
| 1:04.4 | We'll also talk Diego Simeone after Atletico Madrid went through, Antoine Griseman, is he off to Major League Soccer? |
| 1:11.0 | With us this week, Julian Laurent, Mina Azuki and Guillem Balagher. |
| 1:14.7 | Mina Azuki probably wishes her, Mike, wasn't working since there's going to be a lot of negative Italian stories tonight. |
| 1:21.3 | You know what? I'm actually quite proud, so you can bully me all you like. |
| 1:28.8 | Excuse me. |
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