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Still flows right off the tongue.

We were treated to some big continental bouts and in the end Man City didn't make the knockouts.

Killing Mbapé showed he's got plenty of clout as Man City stopped crying their hearts out.

Italian clubs came in numbers abound but in the, none of them cleared the playoff round. Celtic fought a good fight. PSG showed their impressive might. Dortman's light is still burning bright and Benfica are through, but you didn't watch that game, right? Dynamic duo today, my name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me, it's your friend. It's my friend. It's the Graham Rutherland.

You got the Taylor intro there, Graham. Hello. Oh, hello, Ryan Bailey. How are you? Just the two of us today. I think the other two, Taylor and Joe, saw just how bad a round this was for the American players going out of the competition. They thought they'd boycott this episode and pretend it never happened. Yeah, if you're Italian disposition, you might want to skip this one as well.

It wasn't a great week for those clubs either.

But a good week of action all the same, Graham?

I mean, I think it was.

I think it was a good round of matches.

I thought there were some really entertaining games where we had some of the smaller teams play great football and get through, like not to spoil anything, but Feinord, PSV, Club Bruges, Celtic played some really good stuff as well and pushed by and all the way. So I would say that that is a tentative victory for the new format. Also, and I made this point the last time we spoke about the new

format one one day we will stop talking about the new format and whether we like it or not that is not

today though but an argument after the league phase was that all the big teams ended up getting through

well they didn't because they they would have automatically gone into the last 16 there wouldn't

have been this last 24 round.

And now city, UV, Milan and Atalanta have fallen through the cracks.

So, yeah, I think this is a pretty notable improvement.

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