Ranking the Champions League Last 16

Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

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4.9 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The Champions League Last 16 is set and the draw is done, which leaves us salivating at the prospect of eight blistering ties to come in the New Year. Still, with the matchups now set, it felt like a good time to rank the contenders left in Europe's pre-eminent club competition, and so we set Sam to work building a list. We take a look at Bayern, Leipzig, Dortmund, Gladbach, Real Madrid, Atleti, Barcelona, Sevilla, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Juventus, Atalanta, Lazio, PSG and Porto and put them in order of who is best placed to win the competition, before flipping our attention over to the Europa League draw, where Jack picks out three games to watch from a phenomenal Round of 32, and also takes a quick look at some of the favourites. We finish with another London Colney-based Melon of the Week, and Dean takes on responsibilities for the Gibberish Ranking, where he picks the best games to play with a three-year-old. It's Ranks! See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

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0:00.0	Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks FC podcast.
0:26.6	Hello, Ranks squad and welcome to Ranks FC.
0:31.1	It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast back for another week.
0:41.4	My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host today as we take a deep dive into the Champions League round of 16. 16 teams left and we're going to be ranking them all in order of how likely we think they are to win the competition.
0:47.0	There'll be a little time at the end as well to talk about our favourites for the Europa League
0:51.7	and the Conference League after those brackets were drawn as
0:55.6	well. And to help me do so, a man who's now incredibly familiar with the idea of a bracket,
1:02.2	all the way from San Diego is Mr Dean Jones. How you doing, mate?
1:05.7	Oh, very good, mate. Thank you very much. Yeah, obviously we could have done a full episode
1:10.0	today on San Diego FC, my new team
1:12.5	with our 100% win record, couldn't we?
1:15.8	I imagine supporting a team that's not got 100% win record.
1:18.3	I can't imagine what that feels like.
1:20.5	It's like that.
1:21.0	I've got full of on the other screen right now.
1:22.7	I've got to play against Wall.
1:24.0	We haven't got that right now.
1:25.9	And I'm probably about to lose another game.
1:34.9	But yeah, it's exciting now, mate, in the Champions League, isn't it? This is where it gets a bit more familiar for us because obviously we've had a dysfunctional start to our Champions League year
1:40.2	because none of us knew what was really going on. We had this extremely weird league table.
1:45.3	And then we've had the playoff section, which was very exciting to be fair. And now we're back
1:50.3	down to normal. We're into the normal knockout stage. We're into the last 16. And so in
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