What's Up With The Champions League?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Tom Clarke and Molly Hudson. With eight teams left in the Champions League draw, we work out our dream draw and which teams are most likely to go all the way this season. The Times’ European Football Correspondent Ian Hawkey joins us to talk all things Real Madrid which leads to a sharing of our favourite Los Blancos memories. Molly brings us the latest from the women’s game with the Champions League last eight draw decided and Fran Kirby back on form for Chelsea. This episode was recorded before Gareth Southgate announced his England squad for the World Cup qualifiers. We weight up the potential inclusions and what level of success he needs to achieve at the Euros to be deemed a success. Scotland are also preparing for the delayed tournament and Gregor has some thoughts on who he’d like to see in the squad. The conversation turns to switching allegiance and whether the current rules protect the smaller nations. We end the episode picking that one player from another nation that we would have loved to sneak into our national team. To celebrate the beginning of spring, save fifty percent on full digital access to The Times and The Sunday Times for six months and stay well informed on the latest stories: thetimes.co.uk/sale/thegame

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0:56.8	Let's talk about the Champions League to begin with, the last 16, all done with, they
1:08.8	had more of a group stage field to it.
1:11.2	As far as I'm concerned though, the aggregate scorelines 6-2, 5-2, 4-0, 4-0, 4-1, 3-0, it
1:19.3	was a 5-4 with zero jeopardy and of course a 4-0 thriller between Porto and UVA, but you
1:25.4	get the feeling, Tom, that the quality isn't quite as high in the Champions League this
1:31.1	year, what do you think?
1:32.1	Yeah, I must say I've been disappointed with some of the Spanish sides in particular.
1:36.0	I was very disappointed with Athleticomadrid as a neutral fan and as a journalist watching
1:41.5	their games against Chelsea, I expected a lot more from them.
1:45.6	Both going forward and in some of those kind of tough to beat the mentality stakes that
1:50.3	we know and love about Simione's sides didn't really seem to be there.
1:57.6	We're looking at the Premier League at the moment and seeing a man-city team running
2:00.8	away with it in Chelsea finding their feet under Tushal and Liverpool struggling and yet
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