Ranking the Champions League Final Eight

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Champions League is back, returning in a fever dream of a month which includes a World Cup-esque knockout round in both the big one and it's much beloved little brother, the Europa League. We take the bull by the horns, ranking all eight of the contenders left in the competition by how likely they are to win it. Given that it all feels a bit like an international tournament, Sam also gives each team an international comparison to really drill home just how they play. It's a whole lot of fun. And in Hot Takes there's room for a big discussion on Andrea Pirlo's appointment at Juventus, succeeding the unfortunate Maurizio Sarri after just one season at the helm in Turin; and of course the lowdown on Jadon Sancho's potential move to Manchester United from Dortmund where Dean explains the PR war going on between the two clubs, in the press. There's some big love for Leverkusen-Inter and United-Copenhagen (shouts out Karl-Johan Johnsson) in the Europa League as well! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Afonzo Davies and you're listening to BR Football Ranks.
0:32.1	Hello and welcome to be our football ranks, your favourite football podcast as we enter what is a World Cup-esque fever dream of a month of football.
0:37.7	My name is Jack Collins and I will be your host today and I'm joined as ever by the rank god Samtai.
0:39.0	Hello, mate.
0:40.0	Hello, May.
0:45.4	And of course, our transfer guru, Mr Dean Jones, who is in his element right now.
0:46.9	Hello, young Jack.
0:47.5	Am I?
0:48.6	I guess so, yeah.
0:50.9	This is your time here, DJ.
0:52.3	My screen time's up.
0:52.9	I know that much.
0:56.0	A lot of WhatsApps and a lot of calls going out. What's the screen time? What's the average? What are we talking?
0:59.0	I think it's up to 745 and it's usually about 6.30.
1:04.0	Oh geez. I think I'm on about eight. This is not even my transfer season. I'm still beating you.
1:09.0	That's how really. That encourages me then.
1:11.1	You do actually have a child or two children in fact, though. So your screen time has to be down.
1:15.6	Well, to be fair, he's mostly on my phone watching YouTube. So maybe that's actually why it's
1:19.2	going on. Yeah, well, that's it. It's not actually anything to do with transfers. It's just
1:22.4	Dylan watching pepper pig. And we are into what is an incredibly fun month of football boys and I am extremely excited.
1:30.3	You know, we kicked off last night with the Europa League quarterfinals, this kind of knockout,
1:35.3	straight off the bat football and it very much delivered, didn't it, Sam?
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