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Hello and welcome to the Athletic Fc tactics podcast.

This week we're discussing the minutiae of an enthralling round of Champions League

Round of 16 ties.

From Premier League struggles and Guadliola's European record to how good Bayern and PSG

really are and plenty more besides.

For this one, we have Michael Cox.

Hello, Michael.

Duncan Alexander. Hello, Michael. And Mark Care Cox. Hello, Michael. Duncan Alexander. Hello, Michael. And Mark

Kerry. Hi, Michael. Right, let's run you through the quarter finalists after this week's

action. They are Arsenal, Paris and Germain, Sporting and Rail Madrid, and they're joined by

Athletico Madrid, by Munich, Liverpool and Barcelona.

Now, I first wanted to talk about the sheer number of goals in this round, Michael,

68 of them, up from 63 in the same round last year.

Any feeling that managers are cutting loose, maybe a little bit?

Or is it a little bit more haphazard than that?

I thought it was a bit circumstantial. I think a few of the goals in the first leg were a little

bit out of nothing and teams built up quite substantial leads and that meant the opposition

really had to take the initiative often on home soil where they could felt like they could kind

of go for a little bit more and that left

the back door open and he had lots of goals but not complaining. I thought it was a really

entertaining round. I think on this podcast we've been slightly negative about the league phase. I must

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