Vini wonder goal overshadowed on toxic night in Lisbon
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Charlie Eccleshare, Colin Millar, Tom Wiliams and Seb Stafford-Bloor to discuss an eventful evening in the Champions League play-offs.
In Lisbon, Vini Jr scored a wonder goal and shortly afterwards left the pitch, alleging that Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni racially abused him. We discuss the controversial response from Benfica and Jose Mourinho.
On the French Riviera, PSG mounted an impressive comeback to win 3-2 at Monaco having gone 2-0 down inside the opening 18 minutes via a Folarin Balogun brace.
And it was a bad night for Italian football with Dortmund beating Atalanta 2-0 in the Signal Iduna + Galatasaray thrashing Juve 5-2 in the early kick off in Istanbul.
Plus the FA Cup draw, Coventry on top and Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill becomes Blackburn boss.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Rundown of the results (2.08)
• PART 2a: Benfica 0-1 Real Madrid (2.50)
• PART 3: Monaco 2-3 PSG (15.10)
• PART 4a: Galatasaray 5-2 Juve (25.00)
• PART 4b: Dortmund 2-0 Atalanta (34.00)
• PART 5: The FA Cup draw + Michael O'Neill joins Blackburn (42.05)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.0 | Totally Football Show today, Tuesday |
| 0:11.0 | Tuesday night in the Champions League. |
| 0:13.0 | For Real Madrid in Lisbon, Victory and Venom. |
| 0:16.0 | We get the Vinnie Veritas on a controversial night. |
| 0:19.0 | Elsewhere, Italian side has second half |
| 0:21.6 | Champions League collapse in Istanbul. |
| 0:23.4 | That's never happened before. |
| 0:25.0 | We'll talk about Galatasaray living Uve in Disaray. |
| 0:28.2 | Also, PSG's win at Monika and Dortmund beating Atalanda |
| 0:31.7 | and other non-champies league stuff too, |
| 0:34.6 | including doing Rover Time, Michael O'Neill's new side hustle, all that and more in this Totally Football Show. |
| 0:43.5 | It's Wednesday, the 18th of February, and welcome to a brand new Totally Football Show. |
| 0:49.3 | Here in the studio, we have Charlie Eckers show. |
| 0:51.5 | Hello. |
| 0:51.9 | Hi, Charlie. |
| 0:52.8 | Also, Colin Miller's here. |
| 0:54.3 | Hello, Jims. |
| 0:55.1 | Nice to see you, Colin. |
| 0:56.4 | It will be joined additionally by Seb Stapha Bloor. |
| 1:00.6 | We're telling us all about Brussia Dortmund's mighty Tuna win over Atlanta Tuesday night. |
| 1:05.5 | And Tom Williams, who was all over, the All French Affair, down at the St. Louis d'Eux, where Monaco would take you on Paris |
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