Will it be a Real Madrid-PSG Champions League final?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Matt Davies-Adams is in the Euro hot seat alongside Julien Laurens, Alvaro Romeo, Seb Stafford-Bloor and James Horncastle as the continental competitions reach their climax.
Real Madrid are champions of La Liga and are now looking to add the Champions League trophy, the last trophy Harry Kane could win this season, as Bayern head to the Bernabeu.
Dortmund have the advantage against PSG in the other semi, as two teams who save their best for the Champions League do battle in Paris.
Elsewhere, Leverkusen make it 48 games unbeaten, with the chance to add the Europa League and the Pokal to maybe the greatest season ever.
Plus Will Still could be heading to England, Girona are heading to the Champions League and is Stefano Pioli heading for a pizza?
Produced by Charlie Jones.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moment of the week (01.00)
• PART 2a: Real Madrid v Bayern preview (07.30)
• PART 2b: PSG v Dortmund preview (18.30)
• PART 3a: Milan’s manager search (27.00)
• PART 3b: Europa League & Conference League preview (36.00)
• PART 4: 48 unbeaten for Leverkusen (46.00)
• PART 5: Still leaves Reims & Girona reach the Champions League (56.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:09.0 | Totally football show. |
| 0:10.5 | Today, Champions League semis, |
| 0:12.4 | it's Ancelotis aristocrats versus two calls to Maltz in Madrid, |
| 0:16.5 | whilst Dortmund hope it'll be another case of PS Jesus. |
| 0:19.7 | Have you messed this up again for Enrique's entourage? |
| 0:23.1 | There's more Final Four action in the conference and Europa League's featuring never losing Levecousen. |
| 0:28.5 | Domestically, we'll find out if Pioli likes pizza and why Will Still, |
| 0:32.2 | will still be being linked to various jobs. |
| 0:34.4 | All that and more to come on the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:43.1 | European edition back in your ears, folks. Thank you very much for joining us. It's me, |
| 0:48.1 | Matt Davis-Adams, joined in the studio by Alvaro Romeo. Hello. |
| 0:53.5 | Ola. Ola. Salabstaff applause with us too. How are you doing, Seb. Doing Romeo. Hello. Ola. |
| 0:54.7 | Ola. |
| 0:56.8 | Seb, staff, applause with us too. |
| 0:54.0 | How are you doing, Seb? Doing good. Matt Davis-Adams. Excellent. And on the big screen, the incomparable, Julian Laurent. Jules, you okay? Bonjour. Very good. Thank you. And you? We, Trebian. Traybion. Later, we shall hear from James Horncastle on all things Italian, |
| 0:56.6 | but let's get some moments of the weekend, first of all. |
| 1:14.1 | Sebs, you can... Traybion. Later, we shall hear from James Horncastle on all things Italian, but let's get some moments of the weekend, first of all. |
| 1:15.3 | Sebs, you kick us off? |
| 1:20.7 | Marco Royce. So obviously just before the weekend, Royce announced he's going to be leaving the club. |
| 1:24.3 | And, okay, big 5-1 victory of Augsburg. |
| 1:27.1 | Very nice way to warm up for the second leg of that championship league game. But there's a lovely shot of Royce with the Yellow Wall before the game. But also he scored in the second half and he kind of, after he'd raced away to score really elegantly, the camera caught all sorts of Dortmund dignitaries and crowds. So he's casting crammer was there, Akivatska, Lars Ricken, who's taking over as the kind of a, I suppose, sports CEO. Mattes Samut, wearing a lumberjack shirt, I feel like that needs a little bit more context. But you could see how much the moment meant to all of them and how much they enjoyed watching someone who's done so much for Dortmund and been so unlucky, but have a really, swan song, moment of the week. Mean to call him a nearly man? I guess he might not be if he wins the Champions League this season. I suppose so, but I think it misses a sort of a broader point, Matt, about how many bad injuries he's had at terrible moments and how good a player he really has been for a very, very long time. And that kind of transcends players who've left the club, difficult circumstances, |
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