Man City in Real Trouble
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Every March, are brackets the only thing you can think about? |
| 0:04.0 | Do you have symptoms such as constant bracket obsession or moderate to severe bracket-related distractions? |
| 0:10.0 | You may be living with bracket brain. |
| 0:12.0 | Thankfully, there's ESPN Tournament Challenge, the number one proven way to treat bracket brain right at the source. |
| 0:18.0 | So this March, download the ESPN Tournament Challenge app, fill out your |
| 0:22.2 | men's bracket, and get you and your brain in the game. ESPN Tournament Challenge play the number |
| 0:27.7 | one bracket game, presented by Allstate. Welcome in to the latest edition of ESPNFC. I'm Dan |
| 0:37.0 | Thomas, joined by Ali Moreano and Craig Burley. |
| 0:39.3 | Great Champions League Day once again. Today we'll kick things off at the Santiago Burnabal, Real Madrid taking on Manchester City. |
| 0:45.3 | Madrid of course has been awful this season, so much so that City were the favourites going into this tie. |
| 0:50.3 | But it certainly didn't play out that way. It was the Fetti Valverde show. |
| 0:54.6 | He was fantastic. He would bag an impressive hat trick in the first half and there was no coming |
| 0:59.9 | back for Manchester City. Over our lower side then very much with the advantage going into |
| 1:05.3 | the second leg next week. For more on this, Juergen Klinsman joins us. Jirgen, this doesn't make sense in the real world if games were played on paper. |
| 1:15.8 | Rea Madrid lost a Chitaphé last week. |
| 1:17.8 | They were terrible, yet they'd come into a Champions League night. |
| 1:21.1 | They turn it on again. |
| 1:22.4 | Féde Valverde, the star of the show. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, because it's a team and obviously the individual players, when the occasion comes up, they raise their game. |
| 1:34.3 | And what Federico Valverde showed us tonight was just memorable. |
| 1:39.3 | It was unbelievable. It was just pure art that he executed. All three goals, very difficult, |
| 1:47.1 | very special goals. I mean, the last one, obviously, you know, the chip ball over the defender, |
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