On The Continent: Yabba Dabba Doo!
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Dotun and Andy are joined by Nicky Bandini to run the rule over the Champions League group stages for some of Europe’s fallen - or stumbling - giants.
Atlético Madrid get the job done, but we examine the deeper identity crisis on Diego Simeone’s hands. We also discuss a tale of two finalists in 2015 - Juventus and Barcelona - and Nicky explains the Old Lady’s woes up front. Plus, there’s crisis in eastern France – but on the pitch this time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of on the continent, your one-stop shop, for everything to do with European football, I'm Dotton Adibio. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Andy Brassel, and I'm Nikki Bandini. |
| 0:11.0 | On today's edition, you can get away with one in the Champions League, but you can't get away with two, can you? |
| 0:17.0 | In which case, how much more do Athletico Madrid have to do after squeezing their way through to the knockout stages? |
| 0:25.0 | Also, whatever happened to the Class of 2015, the Champions League finalist, it's a question of two halves, and have lay wheels falling off the bus for the Eastern Conference of League A, or do lay wheels on the bus go round and round in its manager, merry-go-round? |
| 0:46.0 | So, shall we start off if we were talking about Athletico? Do they deserve to be in the knockout stages of the Champions League, Andy? |
| 0:54.0 | No. |
| 0:56.0 | It's that simple. |
| 0:59.0 | I felt before this game away at Porto, they could have easily lost all five games before that. |
| 1:07.0 | It could have made it six if they're in that run in this one. |
| 1:13.0 | And until the opening goal by Antoine Griezmann, which I think Porto will be kicking themselves for letting in for a while, |
| 1:22.0 | because it was such a soft goal to let in. |
| 1:25.0 | Until that point, Porto with a better team, through the first half and into the second half, Porto really struggled to cope with that setback. |
| 1:36.0 | And of course, everyone knows afterwards how it became Athletico by numbers after that, really, from the red card for Yannick Carrasco, |
| 1:50.0 | the quickly buying back the red card, three minutes later. |
| 1:55.0 | So Porto had a man's advantage for literally three minutes until Crenia sort of never mind VAR. |
| 2:04.0 | I think this was PAR, player-assisted referee with the dive that Crenia took and brilliantly executed in his defence. |
| 2:16.0 | And then they were able to pick off Porto at the end, but I think for a couple of things, really. |
| 2:22.0 | I think with Athletico, we've been way, way shorter the mark in this group. |
| 2:28.0 | They had an opportunity, I think, for the first time since they won at Anfield in the last 16 of the Champions League in 2020. |
| 2:39.0 | I can't believe that was only in 2020, really, about years ago. |
| 2:42.0 | But for the first time, they had this collective experience where they all get on board and fight and play particularly well, |
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