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Euro Leagues: Tonali betting investigation and United's Champions League heartbreak

Football Daily

BBC

Sports, Soccer

4.34.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Steve Crossman is joined by Guillem Balague, Mina Rzouki and Raphael Honigstein for the latest episode of Euro Leagues. They discuss the betting investigation surrounding Newcastle United midfielder Sandro Tonali, Italy's struggles as they aim to qualify for Euro 2024, Spain's exciting prospects for the present and future as well as Manchester Utd's Women's Champions League qualifying defeat to PSG and whether the format of the competition needs to change 2:00 Sandro Tonali betting investigation 9:00 First impressions of Nagelmann’s Germany 14:00 Italy’s qualifying struggles 23:00 Spain’s shining lights 31:00 Women’s Champions League – is the format wrong?

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0:00.0

Hello, Gary Lednika here with Alan Shira and Michael Richards to say the match of the day top 10 podcast is back

0:07.4

We'll be ranking our footballing top 10s and debiting. It was right. Well, it's don't be me. Not a champ. It's Gary

0:14.8

First season wonders to goalkeeping blunders. Nothing is off the table. You had a few blunders in your day. Did you Gary?

0:22.0

Yeah, match of the day top 10. Listen only on BBC sounds

0:27.3

BBC sounds music radio podcasts. The football daily podcast with Steve Crossman. Good evening. Welcome to the EuroLeaks on five live sport. We have

0:40.4

Mina Rizuki. We have got Rafael and Honakstein and as always we have Guillain Balaguer. Hello everybody. Hello Steve. Hello. Hello.

0:47.4

Hello. Happy international break coming to an end. I normally aren't around for this show because I take what I would describe

0:54.1

Guillain as tactical holiday. But here we are and I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, I don't know. I was going to say I don't know

1:01.5

Mina and Ruffy, but it's not a break anymore. There's so many things happening in the last in the last two weeks. All kinds of

1:09.3

things. Interesting things. Interesting things though. You never have a break. No, no one you have the opportunity to

1:16.4

meet the two high jumpers that I actually got shared gold in Tokyo. Yeah, what a story that is what a story

1:26.6

that is we discussed it in public in Rome in an amazing house in Rome last week or we do a special

1:33.4

in Manchester with Lopategi or I met Alexia Poteyes. This is important for what we talk about later about

1:39.2

the woman's Champions League because I'm going to give you an exclusive format of the Champions League.

1:46.2

Ah, that's interesting. Yeah, so that's one of the things we're going to do later is ask the question. Does the

1:52.0

Women's Champions League need reform? We're going to do that a little bit later. We'll also talk about Italy's struggles,

1:57.8

the success of Spain's youngsters. They've qualified for the euros. But we're going to start with the news that Newcastle

2:03.1

and Italy midfielder Sandro Tanali is being investigated by Italian authorities over allegations of illegal betting.

2:10.0

He was withdrawn from that Italy squad last week, along with Aston Villa's Nicola Zagnolo. Zagnolo

2:15.6

denies the allegations. Tanali's agent has since said that the Newcastle midfielder is suffering from a

2:21.5

gambling addiction and we're going to come onto that side of it a little bit later. Let's start here,

2:25.7

Meena. This is too legged. There's the accusation of betting on football, which, of course,

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