Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our review of the Champions League quarterfinal first legs in which

Real Madrid looked good and they were certainly trying but they were undone by a magnificent

Bayern. Barcelona went a man down and Athleti pulled off the shock of the round. Arsenal were a bit bland, but they left Lisbon with the upper hand. And Liverpool having a pretty rough week, while PSG were magnific. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today. Hello, Taylor Rocko. How are you? I'm doing really well, my friend. These games were awesome. I loved watching them. I'm excited to get to talk about them.

But I think my favorite experience of the week was getting to picture Graham trying to sneakily watch these games and still message us about them while on vacation.

I am assuming he, like, snuck away from his wife and child having good time, family fun to just like crawl under a machine somewhere and watch like

Byron on half a screen as fast as he could.

Yeah, Graham, I'm away on a well-earned vacation at the moment, as you say, Taylor,

and still contributing to our Slack chat about the games and clearly watching them all.

What if it's his family who are just watching them and he has to sort of watch along with them? What if it's that? Join us, father. I'm just patting the couch Simpson style.

Join us father. Sporting Lisbon are still drawing with Arsenal. I really enjoyed Joe basically

saying that Graham, go outside and touch grass. No response to that one. Just more thoughts on Barso Adletti and Liverpool's performance or lack thereof. Yeah, there you go. Hello, Joe Larry. How are you? Of course, he can't touch grass where he is in the Canary Islands. He'll be touching volcanic sand, I imagine. Ooh. Got to watch out for that. Might be allergic, Graham Ruffin. I assume Graham's just sort of allergic to the outdoors. Yeah, Taylor, you're spot on with that response.

Graham? imagine. Ooh. Got to watch out for that. Might be allergic, Graham Ruffin. I assume Graham's just sort of allergic to the outdoors. Yeah, Taylor, you're spot on with that response. Graham was the one driving the combo in our Champions League Slack channel. And I said to Graham, quote, Graham, stop watching soccer and go outside. You and Ryan both gave me a ha-ha emoji. Graham did not respond to my message in any way and just went, Adleti, after they scored another goal and continued along his current path. Never changed, Graham. Or actually, like, you should change just a little. You should change. You should definitely change. I know you're listening to this right now because you put those little things on the screen, and I know you're still editing, Graham, I know you're watching this. I know, I'm looking at you in the eyes right now. Go outside. Oh, wow. Audience of one. I like it. Very good. If you'd like to get our bonus content featuring Graham when he's not, or maybe while he's on vacation, you can go to patreon.com slash total soccer show, bonus episodes, bonus video, access to our Discord server where

how many is it? Oh, it's all the core kids. All the core kids are hanging out in our Discord server.

Do check us out and we've got the TSS Scouting Network as well. If you've ever wanted to scout a player,

here is your opportunity. We can assign you one, you can assign yourself one, join the TSS Scouting Network.

Lots of fun to be had. And it must be said

once again that we are doing it live. It's official on the opening night of the World Cup, June 11th.

We will be in Los Angeles, California for Total Soccer Show World Cup live at the El Ray Theatre.

Link in the show notes if you'd like to get a ticket and join us there.

Wonderful stuff.

All right, let's get to the Champions League action, shall we?

Round Madrid 1 by Munich 2.

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