Welcome to the Total Soccer Show Champions League quarterfinal second leg review.

By and Munich performed with pace and grace and now they've got a massive semi.

Final place.

The Varianz and Madrid gave us goals galore, but despite some dodgy goalkeeping, the Germans are now in the final four.

In Spain, we saw that the Minimal's brilliance was no match for Athletico Madrid's resilience.

In Liverpool, the result we thought we would get is what we got as PSG completely outclassed

the team coached by Arnie Slott.

And Arsenal are a few games away from a historic campaign, but watching their match with sporting was a bit of a strain.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. How's you?

I am well, a bit of a strain indeed. I watched that game at its entirety, and there were moments when the eyes got very, very heavy.

Ryan, a lovely introduction by you. Do you read your rhyming introductions again before you read them out? Because sometimes I write mine and then get to do the rhyming and suddenly realize that I've made my life difficult.

I read them in my head about three minutes before I read them out loud on a microphone. That's it. It works every time.

It works 60% of the time it works every time. And I think it's how I would phrase it. Indeed, indeed. Are you saying, do you watch the Arsenal game live and that was the one you chose to watch in full live? No, no, no, no, no. I just successfully avoided the scoreline just in case things got interesting. they did kind of mostly not well let's get to

that later on in the show hello joe larry joe how are you i'm great i'm trying to figure out if it would be

worse to watch that live or to watch it back knowing the score i think taylor you did the best thing

you watched the better game in that time slot live anyway and then you went back with hope rather than went back with just this destitute sort of feeling about you. I think almost watching it back knowing the score and knowing the flow of the game would be worse. That's what I've landed on. I'll say this as well. Part of the enjoyment of watching it, like not knowing the score, but knowing it had happened, is that multiple

times in these matches, I wrote in my notes, like, this game seems over. There is no chance this team comes back. Literally, I wrote that at one point, and then a minute later, the team that I thought was done and Dusted scored. So there were moments where I was like, maybe that'll happen again. You never know. Like, I don't want to say sporting are never going to score because they can't muster any semblance of an attack at all.

But then they kept not being able to, I don't want to say sporting are never going to score because they can't muster any semblance of an attack at all.

But then they kept not being able to, and it kind of felt like they were never going to score. Let's leave the worst game of the lot, till later on in this show, we've got a modern classic to discuss before that. But we also have to say hello to Graham Rutherland. Hello, Graham. How are you? I'm good, Ryan Bailey. I double screened on both nights and that was the way to do it because it meant I could just completely ignore. Basically, the two games involving the Premier League sides. That's one of my takeaways from this week's Champions League matches is, huh, Champions League good, Premier League may be bad. And that's not the first time this has come up in discussion this season.

I enjoyed the non-premial league games this week.

I think to couch that theory, Graham, is my long hill belief and probably of you guys as well that the quarterfinals and semi-finals of the Champions League are consistently the best games in soccer.

They deliver every single year and it's always the best.

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