Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm now joined by Alex Stewart.

Yes, you are. And good entang, Herr Stefford Blois. Hello, Joe. How are you?

I'm very well, thank you. Oh, well, that's fantastic to hear. Today, we will be talking about teams such as

Royal Madrid, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, PSG, Porto, Chelsea, Man City, Dortmund, and I think that's

all the teams that we will be talking about. It's the Champions League, or it was before you

were listening to this, and we'll be reviewing those things that happened in that particular tournament.

Very exciting as we edged towards the critical, the crucial bit at the end, the bit everyone wants to see.

So that's going to be fun.

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Right. Well, there we go.

That's all now from the intro, and I will leave you in interesting game from a Tuesday evening, and a Venetius Jr. apparently doubled his career Champions League goals in one day. Also, says Dermott Corrigan of the Athletic. And he was right to say that. Great performance. Do we like Vinicius? Seb? Well, previously we liked parts of his game. We like his ability to run at the... Don't talk for me. Okay. I, or what I, but I could have been talking for Alex as well. Not necessarily all three of us at the same time. That's true. I'm sorry. Carry on talking for me. Okay. We like parts of this game. I think what was interesting about this performance was it was very complete. And so the areas in which Venetius usually frustrates, which is his finishing, which that statistic alludes to, he was very, very good, very, very efficient, very clinical, and really the difference. I know that this wasn't a great Liverpool performance in Real Madrid was superior in a lot of ways, but one of the reasons why the schooling looks ass as it does now heading into the second leg

is because yeah venice was unusually clinical and it was nice to see because he's obviously

such a gifted player and yeah i like him and he's growing on me how about that he's growing on

you that's interesting do you know what i do i do think that so i'm glad that you did speak for me in that regard. Do we expect Vinissi?

I mean, I think whenever I see a young player, a tricky winger, a player with skill join Rail Madrid's forward lines, I assume that they will eventually be the best player in the world.

That's obviously not always true. But with Vinicius, where should I be placing him in my sort of mental ranking?

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