The Champions League returns. But what’s going on at Freiburg and Sevilla?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of matchday 1 across European competition, it’s Jimbo, it’s James Horncastle, it’s Raphael Honigstein, it’s Julien Laurens and it’s Alvaro Romeo on the Totally Football Show.
PSG face Juventus for the first time in Champions League history. The under-fire Allegri has Juve playing 60s football. And that’s not a good thing.
Will Man City run riot against a Sevilla side hovering above the relegation zone in La Liga? Hear why this sorry state of affairs is Monchi’s fault.
Plenty of feel-good stories in Germany where Eintracht Frankfurt prepare for their Champions League bow and Freiburg and Union Berlin fly high in the Bundesliga.
Will new-look Napoli heap more misery on Liverpool in Naples on Wednesday? There’s plenty of love for Luciano Spalletti.
Plus Ben Yedder’s bowels and the Martin Braithwaite redemption story.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moment of the weekend (02.00)
• PART 2a: PSG v Juventus preview (09.30)
• PART 2b: Spurs v Marseille preview (19.00)
• PART 3a: Inter v Bayern preview and Frankfurt prepare for UCL bow (22.30)
• PART 3b: Freiburg top the Bundesliga (30.00)
• PART 4a: How to keep up with the wealth of the Premier League (34.00)
• PART 4b: Napoli v Liverpool preview (41.00)
• PART 4c: Udinese smash Roma in La Liga (45.00)
• PART 5: Barca smash Sevilla in La Liga (50.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:09.0 | Totally Football Show, European edition. |
| 0:12.2 | Today, stop your grinning and drop your linen. |
| 0:14.7 | The Champions League group stage is beginning. |
| 0:17.2 | We check on this week's matchups and get the latest news from the parallel universe |
| 0:21.1 | where the continent used to be, where Atalanta are top in Italy, where Freiburg are top |
| 0:25.9 | in Germany, and where PSG's lead in France is Nils-Bois, all the big stories from around Europe |
| 0:31.0 | on the way in this totally football show. Tuesday the 6th of September. |
| 0:44.9 | We're ready to roll with this totally football show. |
| 0:49.1 | James Horncastle's here. |
| 0:50.2 | Hi, James. |
| 0:51.7 | Hello, James. |
| 0:52.7 | Also got Alva Romero with us. All also got Alvaro Mayer with us. |
| 0:54.4 | All right, Alvaro. |
| 0:56.1 | Hola, buenos, diaz. |
| 0:57.8 | Buenos Aires. |
| 0:58.8 | Julian Lorenz and Raphael Honnixstein, too. |
| 1:02.5 | Bonjour. |
| 1:03.7 | Hello. |
| 1:04.5 | Hello. |
| 1:05.3 | Wow. |
| 1:05.9 | We've got busy day ahead of us. |
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