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In which Jose Mrinios's team were pretty great when they kept Real Madrid out of the top eight.

Chelsea made sure Napoli are deader than the dodo, but the same isn't true for glimmed, Bodo. Some teams went through and some went down in flames. There's a lot to talk about, let's just pretend I had rhymes for 15 other games. My name's Ryan Bailey. Hello Taylor Rockwell. How are you? So many games. So many rhymes. Such a phenomenal introduction. Ryan, can I have that again? Could I have the full title of the final match day again, please? Is it too much? Just press negative 15 a couple times. You'll get right back there, Taylor. Okay, it is too much. That was outstanding work by you, my friend. Thank you very much. Let's hope we have outstanding work for the next 45 minutes or so. Joining us, Graham Rutherland. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan. Yeah, you should pursue a career in marketing or something like that. I don't know if anyone's told you that before. Did we get one, the first rendition of that name for free? And then a second one, we have to pay for that one is that how it works yeah yeah

on the patreon it's even longer yeah i'm waiting forward to it excellent stuff very fitting for a

chaotic night of soccer for viewers and for us as well we'll get into that very shortly we're

going to we're going to touch on every game at least a little bit but we'll focus on a few of the

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Taylor,

are we going to say something there, sir?

I was.

I'm wondering, like, when you are sort of grading chaotic finishes

and the factors that factor into the chaos at the end,

goalkeeper diving header in the closing seconds, That's like, if you get that in there, it's automatically elevated, right? Yes, I think so. That leads us. Why don't we start with that game then, Taylor? Because it wasn't just that there was a goalkeeper diving header to win it, but there was a bit of context around it too. This is Benfica 4, Real Madrid 2. I think the game of the round here, Jose and Marino doing it, a Jose Marinieree team scoring four goals in the Champions League. We can discuss that separately. But obviously, Benfica, they needed a goal. It was a 96 minute. They're three to up. Their goalkeeper isn't even aware that they need another goal. Basically, the people behind the crowd are telling him, you've got to go up, you've got to go up. And then Marino's like, oh right, he didn't even realize. Marino didn't know. The bench didn't seem to know that they needed another goal, which kind of underlines how crazy the final night was. Watching this game live, I didn't know. I was like, I guess he's going for it. Jose B. and Jose wants to rub salt in the wound, and only then that I realized why they were doing it. But yeah, the keeper in the other opposition box at the end, well up a goal is a very strange combination of events. It's such a great header as well. It turns into like Pete Didier-Drogba for one moment where he's still got so much to do with the header. It's a great ball into the box by who is it who sends in it as arsonists, I think who puts it in. But yeah, Trubin, showing the instincts of a 20 goal of season striker there in that moment. I mean, I forget who was on commentary, but they said, like, that was as good or better

than the Kili and Mbapé header to start the game.

And they were correct, because Mbapes was somehow even more wide open.

So maybe a slightly higher degree of difficulty there for Trubin, who I thought also had

a good game between the stakes as well.

Yeah, definitely did.

And obviously that 98th minute header,

the headline there squeezing Benfica into 24th place, it knocking Marseille out of the rankings

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