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Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Archie Rhind-Tutt and Jonathan Liew to talk Wednesday’s Champions League action
On today’s pod: a Champions League classical successful Munich. Bayern hit Real Madrid 4-3 connected nan night, 6-4 connected aggregate, successful a crippled that had conscionable astir everything. The sheet effort to unpack it, from Manuel Neuer’s early correction to Arda Güler’s brilliance, Harry Kane reaching 50 goals for nan play and nan chaos that followed. But nan large talking point: was that Eduardo Camavinga 2nd yellowish a turning point? And why do Real Madrid ever look to extremity up furious pinch nan referee?
Elsewhere, Arsenal are into nan semi-finals. That’s nan positive. But nan sheet ask: has location ever been a little enjoyable way to nan past four? Are Arteta’s broadside controlling games, aliases conscionable strangling them? With 8 cleanable sheets, are they softly superb defensively, aliases is this shot that raises bigger existential questions astir what nan constituent of it each really is?
Plus: really do Arsenal attack nan looming Premier League title decider astatine nan Etihad? Elsewhere, location a immense Merseyside derby connected nan horizon, much questions astir Roberto De Zerbi’s Tottenham, and news of a Football Weekly unrecorded show successful New York.
