Hello everyone and welcome to the Redmond Bitesize podcast. It's Thursday the 26th of February.

I'm Steve Hall bringing you all the latest lip-all news, rumours and all that kinds of stuff.

I hope we're doing well earlier. Yeah, let's get on with the show. The first thing I'm going to speak about is the Champions League draw. It takes place Friday morning, 11 a.m. UK time.

We will be live on YouTube with Paul and

Chris as well as that goes live, get up reactions and stuff, so go and check that out. We now know

who Liverpool's opponents could be in the last 16. It's one of two teams. It's Athletico

Madrid or it's Galatasaray, Athletical Madrid overcome Club overcome a club bruges, and Galatasarai avoid they major scare after being pegged back by Juventus. Galatasah were leading five, two from the first. Like, it went to three nil to Yaventas, even though Yuvae with another 10 men and went to extra time, but then Galatasar, I scored a couple of goals in that extra time period with the man advantage out there through so yeah Leppool are going to be facing the team in the last 16 who they've already faced this year they beat at Lettico Madrid of course and they lost away to Galatassoi we'll find out like say on Friday and not only that we'll find out a potential path all the way hopefully to the final in Budapest Lipool and they either end up on the silver side or the blue side of the drawing to be able to map out a little path with the bracket but that will all be explaining down the line and yeah we'll be live on YouTube for that but yeah it will be at let's come with trades or it will be galatas so like almost certainly with the first fixture set to be next tuesday the 10th and then the return leg leg, almost certainly going to be Wednesday, the 18th.

That'll be clarified as well, but given other fiction, other considerations, it looks like that is going to be the case.

Moving on, although sticking on the theme of Champions League football, what has happened over the course of the knockout phase or the playoff phase rather for the champions league is that

england and the premier league's um race i don't know if that's the right word for a extra

champions league place is almost nailed on now um because of newcastle advancing um because of

into milan uh getting knocked out um Liverpool's i I mean, sorry, Liverpool, England's rather,

coefficient is massively high now.

So basically what it means is that fifth place is almost certain

you're going to be a Champions League qualification for us.

And that could obviously benefit Liverpool as they look for that top five place

without going too much into the maths because it's quite complicated

and also quite boring. What you need

to know effectively is

yeah that

for the teams like Germany

maybe to overcome England their teams

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