Episode 37 - Champions League Review

On today's episode, Nico and Juandi review the first leg of the Round of 16 in the Champions League. Juandi is extra unbearable after Madrid's massive victory against Man City. Could we see and El Clasico final in the Champions League?

Nico also touches on the current Barcelona elections and the drama between Joan Laporta and Xavi. All that and much more! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:27

And what's going on, everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Friendly Foes, a Champions League special edition. We just wrapped up the first leg of the quarterfinals for the Champions League. And we had some pretty big moments both today and yesterday. And we can't wait to break it down. I know for damn sure Wandy can't wait to break it down. He's sitting there with a smile. He's got the Barberde jersey right behind him. He's wearing the Real Madrid jersey. He's got it all. Who would have thought? Who would have thought that Real Madrid would have been beaten? Not me. Man City 3-0 at home. Not you, not anybody. I think that caught everybody by surprise. I don't know what fucking Space Jam juice about better than Drake. But that boy was still.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

The whole team did great. I have no idea what Arbaloa's pregame talk was. I don't know what he did. I don't know what's in the water in Madrid, but oh my God. I mean, that was the best performance that I've seen Real Madrid do this season. And Val Verde, that's probably the best individual performance I've ever seen in the Champions League. And I've seen some good ones. I've seen some great individual performances.

SPEAKER_05 1:46

In the Champions League?

SPEAKER_03 1:48

Dude, are you kidding? I mean, he it's up there. It's up there. It really is. It might be the best, actually. Yeah, it really might be the best. Because it's not just a hat trick, bro. I mean, I've seen Ronaldo score hat tricks. I've seen Mbappe score hat tricks. Dude, this guy, not only does he score a hat trick, but he plays right back, left back, center back, center defensive mid, number 10, right wing, striker, left wing. I mean, the only thing I haven't seen him do is be a shot stopper. That's because we have the best goalkeeper in the world in Courtois. That's it. If not, Arbelow would be like, listen, get the gloves on, buddy, because you're next. You're next up.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

I mean, this guy does it all, bro. I mean, he he's a perfect 10. He really is. I mean, right now, I mean, I might be over-exaggerating, but I don't see another player better than him at the moment.

SPEAKER_03 2:37

Who can do it all like him? Who can? Nobody. Nobody, dude. Absolutely nobody. Que jugaba abrazo, Federico Alberde. Dios mío. Wow. I mean, if I wasn't in love with him before, I'm head over heels for this guy right now. I mean, dude, he's only the second Uruguayan to score a hat trick in the Champions League. Not Diego Forlan, not Luis Suarez, not Edison Cavani, but Federico Alberde, bro. Wait, who's the other one? Hold up. Let me uh let me tell you real quick. He played for Deportivo La Coruna. I forget his name.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Oh, okay. So it was the guy, a guy from a while ago. Walter Pandiani.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Walter Pandiani was the other one. Played for Deportivo La Coruna.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

That's a cool stat. I didn't know that. I would have thought.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

Luis Suarez had a score hat trick in the Champions League. But what a performance. And dude, golasos, bro. Absolutely golfos. That assist from Courtois, that touch, that touch was just perfect, man. And then the speed to get to it, go around Donna Ruma. Oh my God, dude. And then the second goal with his left foot. I thought he kind of took too big of a touch at first when Vinicius passed him the ball, but then he finished perfectly with his left foot, with his weaker foot. And then that third goal. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? That was saucy as hell, dude. Brahim's pass right over Ruben Diaz. Then he takes that nice touch over Gwehe and Golazo. Golazo. I'm just I think the third one was probably the nastiest one.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

I think the third one was probably the best one.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

I wasn't expecting it. I mean, we were talking about it. I thought Man City was gonna dance all over Real Madrid, but I thought so too. Boy, was I wrong. What a score line. And all before the half, too. The first 45 minutes we watched this. A hat trick from Fed Ico I better. I mean, I was just, I was shook. I mean, what a performance.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

I think everybody was shook, man. Everybody was watching that. And it's like, what's going on here? How is Arabaloa outcoaching Pet Guardiola right now? Completely for the Real Madrid side who's been playing pretty bad in recent weeks outplaying this Man City side.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

I can't believe I redoubted Real Madrid in the Champions League. I can't believe I redoubted them.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

But Man City can come back from this. This is a bit a pretty big hill to climb. Three and two.

SPEAKER_03 5:11

And it could have been more. It could have been more if Vinny didn't miss that penalty kick, which was a terrible penalty kick. He had a really good game. But that penalty kick, he tried to hit it just like Neymar, but it didn't work out like that, buddy. It did not work out like that. Terrible. He kept his eyes on the ball on the ball the whole time. When he did that skip, he's supposed to look at the keeper to see which way he goes. He didn't do that. He kept his eyes on the ball and just completely whipped it. Terrible. But other than that, great performance from everybody. Perfect 10. Courtois, oh my gosh, at the end, what a save. When my boy Tiago Pitarch, he completely just got out class there in the 18 and then takes a shot. I forgot who took the shot. Was it uh O'Reilly? I can't even remember who took it.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

I think it was O'Reilly, but yeah, Courtois.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

What a deflection for Courtois.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Oh my goodness. Wow. It's it's insane how Courtois can't. It's insane how he shows up every single game. It does.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

Every game, dude, even an assist. What a game it is. To be honest, man, I think he might be up there as the best in history. Like, people can put him up there. I mean, it used to be Neuer, Casijas, Buffon. I think you gotta put Courtois on that table now. Because my goodness, it's just it's every game. Absolutely every game. I don't even know we'd be in second place if it was for Courtois in La Liga, too. He just saves us every single game. He comes in so clutch. I don't know how he does it. But yeah, to me, he's he's up there as the best in history with those three. He sits at that table.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

I I think I think so.

SPEAKER_03 6:48

It's hard to argue against it now.

SPEAKER_00 6:49

It is it is actually pretty difficult to argue against it. The only thing would be uh like he doesn't have a World Cup or a European trophy or anything with Belgium. That would be the only thing that that goes against the city.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Buffon doesn't have a Champions League.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Yeah, exactly. I was gonna say Buffon doesn't have a Champions League. How many does Courtois have?

SPEAKER_03 7:09

Three or two? A Champions League? He has two, but the second one, he only played in the final. And he still cut. That's right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

He only played the final in the second one. But still, so I mean, on paper, he's got two, two Champions League titles. And the way that he saves Real Madrid week in and week out, like you said, they would not be in second place if it wasn't for him. I don't think you guys would have even made it this far in Champions League if it wasn't for him. You guys wouldn't have won that what was that was it in what'd you guys play Liverpool? 2019? And no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

Uh 22, four years ago. 22. 22. Yeah, dude, he's right. He had the most saves of any keeper in a final. Yeah. He was the man of the match. He's single, yeah. Oh yeah, he single-handedly won won us that Champions League.

unknown 7:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

He did. He 100% did. So yeah, he he could be up there. The only arguments against him is that he hasn't done it with Belgium internationally, but how old is he? He's like 30. He's still got some time. He's 33, I think. So he's he's still.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

Yeah, he still has some time. Buffalo.

SPEAKER_04 8:19

Until his 40s. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:21

No, we can get out of here. Yeah. Easy, easy, easy. But man, yeah, nobody would have thought that Real Madrid. And especially if you would have said, hey, Valverde, he was going to score the hat-trick today in the first half of a team. He never scored a half knockout. Yeah, it's his first hat trick. He does it against Man City at home in Champions League in the in the what is it? I said quarterfinal. This is the round of 16s we were talking about. The round of 16, yeah. Yeah. I said quarterfinal. This is the round of 16s in knockout stage. What a performance. Yeah, that was a great one.

SPEAKER_03 8:56

All around too. All around from Real Madrid as well. Vinicius, good performance. Trumani, amazing. Tiago Bitarch has some work to do, but I like what I'm seeing. Just needs to work on his confidence a little bit. I was gonna say, do you like this kid?

SPEAKER_00 9:12

He's been he's been playing the past few years.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

I do, I do, I do like him. I do. He's just, I guess he's gotta, you know, be a little bit more consistent when he plays, but he's so young. I mean, the potential is there. I think the sky's the limit for this kid. I think in five years he can be a phenomenal player. He's 18, right? He's 18.

SPEAKER_04 9:32

He's 18.

SPEAKER_03 9:33

So it was it was all around a good performance. Dean Housen finally had a good performance. I know I've been talking a lot of smack about him, but today he he was completely good. Nobody was able to pass him. Perlan Mendy was only he only lasted 45 minutes, but I I think he got zero dribbles past him. That guy is just a solid, solid player, especially when we play against when he plays against Manchester City. We never lose against Manchester City when this guy plays. Yeah, when Mendy plays, we never lose against Manchester City.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

Did he get hurt again?

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Yeah. He's always getting hurt.

SPEAKER_04 10:10

He looks like he got a hammy, but he's he's done. Arbaloa said it looks pretty bad. Damn. I don't think. That's tough. I don't think it looks good.

SPEAKER_03 10:23

And Strudiger had a good game as well. Trent was decent, not bad. Fed Valverde was back there really helping him defend. This guy Valverde was just all over the place today.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

I was gonna say, I think the way that Arbaloa set it up with Valverde kind of like as a right midfielder, really helped support Trent as a right back because we all know Trent can't defend. That's like his his big thing. Trent can't defend, Trent can't defend. So by putting Valverde there, even though he hates playing right back, like you said last week, he's probably your best right back. So by he was basically using him as like a false right back.

SPEAKER_03 10:57

Dude, there was yeah, there were times I literally saw him as the third center back next to Trent, just waiting for Doku to take him on. And then Federico Alberde was right there. I even saw Thiago Vitarch too backing him up as well. So Arbeloa had a good game plan there, and then Man City had a bit of a high line. They were playing a bit of a high line. They got caught when Vinicius, when he provoked that penalty, they got caught there. And then when Courtois sent that ball to Federico Alberde, which he tried to look for him like two or three times. That wasn't the only time. But the third one was when he scored the goal. So that was a good thing to expose from them. And after Valverde scored that first goal, I think their confidence just went completely down. Man City was nowhere to be found. Erling Holland, I think, only had 10 touches in the game. He didn't do anything. Every time he plays against Antonio Ruliger, that boy can't do anything. He is completely MIA. But honestly, it's been this whole calendar year. Whereas Erling Holland, he's only got four goals. Two of them have been penalties. So, and and he started off the year in 2025. He started off pretty hot.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

So he was, I mean, he's still the leading goal scorer in the Prem. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

Because I mean he was he was scoring a bunch of goals in the beginning. Yeah, he was but now it's just he's been playing terrible to the point where I think Guardiola might have to think about benching him. Damn. I mean, I don't know if he's gonna do all that. But I mean, maybe put Mar Musha up there, why not? Erling Holland really hasn't been doing anything in this calendar year. Four goals from your striker, from your star player in three months? What's going on? What's going on? And two of them have been penalties. I don't know. Sometimes you just gotta bench him to light a spark in him, you know? That's what happened to Vinicius when Xabi Alonzo benched him. That is true. He wasn't playing good, benched him, and then the next game or when he came in, he was killing it. I mean, he's got a line of fire in him somehow. And they gotta win. They gotta win. So I'm so mad at the end.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

They don't just have to win, bro. They have to score at least.

SPEAKER_03 13:02

They gotta hold. But I hope, I hope we go in there with the mentality that it's 0-0, not 3-0, because these guys at the Etihad, I mean, I've played them. We we've played them every single year since the COVID year. So we know how how they can be. And I mean, Pep Guardiola's teams are, you know, he's gonna want to fight back, especially against Real Madrid. He doesn't want to be eliminated three years in a row against Real Madrid. He's gonna try to think of something, but it's gonna be a mountain to mountain to climb for sure.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Huge mountain to climb. We had some had some pretty big uh wide margins of defeats here, especially for the Premier League teams. Not a single Premier League team won during the round. And there's six of them, bro. Six teams, and not a single one of them won. And they try to tell us that the Premier League is the best league in the world. They're losing. I mean, Arsenal struggled with Leverkusen, Liverpool lost to Galatasaray. Tottenham got spanked by Atletico, and then you guys beat the fuck out of Man City. Yeah, and Chelsea got spanked too against PSG. Chelsea. Chelsea got destroyed uh against PSG. I mean, we can start.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

I mean, the the the best team was Newcastle.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Yeah, the best team was Newcastle. We could, we, we, we, we can talk about Newcastle Barcelona here first. We can talk about it first. All right, let's go. Terrible.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

Because that surprised me too. They came with the intensity, man. They were super intense. I wasn't expecting that. They were super intense. I thought they were gonna be, you know, it wasn't gonna be so close. They were gonna put up a fight, you know, especially at St. James Park, but I didn't think they would tie. I thought they would maybe come out like losing by two goals or something. But no, like the first 10-15 minutes, they really put the pressure on you guys. Heavy.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

They were pressing high, they were they had a lot more intensity, like you said, and we were we just looked tired. I think that game against Atletico Madrid a couple of weeks ago took a lot out of us. And we didn't even actually manage to come back. So it's like, was that really worth it to play all of our players to play Pennity for 90 plus minutes? I don't know. Either way, players are tired. You can tell. Pennity looks tired, Lamin looks tired, they looked very fatigued. I mean, we were missing a ton of players as well. Cunde, Balde, De Jong, Garcia, Eddie Garcia picked up a last-minute injury. It's so funny because Araújo was gonna start. I heard he was gonna start. I was like, okay, perfect. All of our players are gonna play in their normal positions at the back. We got Cancelo as a right back, Araújo as a center back, Cuarcia's a center back, Gerard Martinez is a left back. And then Housey Flick switches them all, does like this weird rotation there, puts Arauju at right back, Cancelo at left back, and Pau Cubarcia and Gerard Martin at center backs. At the end of the day, I personally think that was the right call to make because, in my opinion, Pauco Garcia and Gerard Martin were the best players on the pitch for Barcelona and Joan Garcia, which says a lot about how bad we played. But Pauco Garcia has picked up his level this year. He's picked up a recent couple of places. He's picked up the pace. And Girard Martin has as well, man. Every time, you know what's funny? Here's a fun fact: Barcelona have never lost a game in which Girardo Martin started as a center back. 15 games. This is prior to uh Newcastle, 15 games, 15 wins. And out of those 15 games, Barcelona kept nine clean sheets. That was prior to the Newcastle game. Now we still didn't lose that game, and we didn't keep a clean sheet, but it could have been a lot worse. I think it could have been 2-3-0 Newcastle, and that would have been really. Except for that goal he let in. John Garcia? I mean, I don't really think that was much of his fault, to be completely honest. I think that was, I mean, it's it's hard to blame a singular person because everything was so unorganized, all because Araujo freaking decided to waste time. That was really fucking annoying. Because it is. This is why everybody gets on him. And it's really fucking annoying because I actually thought, contrary to popular belief, I thought he was actually playing a pretty decent game. I thought he, for not having started a single game aside from Darcing Santana, game and Copa de Rey, not starting a single game since God knows how long, not playing 90 minutes since God knows how long. And he comes in and plays out of position as a right back. He puts in a pretty decent performance. It wasn't like out of this world, but I thought it was I thought it was pretty decent. And then in the 85th minute, you can clearly tell this guy's tired. You're playing as a right back, you're going back and forth the entire game, and he tries to waste time. It doesn't work. Ref tells him to step out of the field, and then he's like urging to come back on. He comes back on, he has to jog all the way back to the other side of the field, back to your.

SPEAKER_03 18:18

But he's literally jogging while Newcastle is on the counter.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Because you can you can tell he's exhausted. He's exhausted. That's why he was taken out immediately after that. He should have been taken out before. I don't know why Hancy Flick waited until the 85th minute to make that sub. So you can put a lot of blame on a lot of people. Everybody is singling out Araujo because it's the easy thing to do, because he's always the scapegoat on these things. I do think he has partial blame to it. I think there could be a lot of truths here. He can be to blame, but Rafinha can be to blame. How do you not track your man? Like you, I understand you're playing a little bit out of position, but let let's let's stay sharp for a second. You got a man coming in right behind you. How do you let him get into the six-yard box like that? Yeah, you can say Juan Garcia could have done a little bit better there. He probably could have. You can say uh Kubar Si could have could have uh come in a little bit better there as well. You could you could say the same about Araujo. How do you why would you do that? Why would you jog back? It's theoretically your position, your man, you should have been there. Why would you have done that? Honestly, flick why.

SPEAKER_03 19:24

Yeah, I think everyone's just getting on how you know he was trying to waste time, then the ref didn't let him back in. And then back in, he was just jogging back, and then that's when you guys got let in that goal. So And it's the easy thing to do.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

It's like I said, he's always a scapegoat, and it's it is hard to defend him sometimes because he always has these weird laps of judgment where it's like, what are you doing right now? We've seen it against Chelsea, he got a red card. Against PSG a couple of years ago, he got a red card doing really silly things. And then now he he tries to do something where he thinks he's gonna outsmart the system by wasting time, and the referee is like, no, get your ass out of here. You're not wasting time. And it didn't work out, and it backfired on him, so that's why he looks silly, and that's why people are singling him out. And it's and it's sad because you can clearly tell that this guy has been struggling mentally, he's been open about it, and he's been struggling to get back into that top physical shape that he was two, three years ago. And I would love to see him get back to that potential, but it's been it's been really tough. I don't even think that he's gonna he's gonna stay on the team after this season, realistically, because Yeah, no way. The only reason he played today is because we had no other option. We had to be able to do that. And we're in the Captain R band, too. Yeah, he's our he's our captain because Turt Stegen's gone. So he we're in the Captain R-band. And I I do like Arahu, I really do. I think he's a great defender. I think he he could be one of the best defenders in the world. But when he does little silly things like that, you know, it's yeah, he just seems clumsy.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

But I mean, he honestly for a center back, he has like the perfect posture for a center back, his height, like he's pretty tough guy. He's strong. You know, the way he's built, he's strong. I mean, you would think that it's hard to get by him, but he makes a lot of silly mistakes. A lot, a lot of silly mistakes. But that's all up here. So once he gets it all mental. Once he gets this figured out, I think he could be a top, top center back.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Yeah. And it's just a matter of like, well, you know, when is when is he gonna get that figured out? And again, he's been open about this, he's talked about this, he he took a mental health break. He's now back, he's slowly getting back into rhythm. And then as soon as people started slowly backing him up again, he does this, and then now everybody's against him again. And it's sad. It's honestly sad to see. I feel bad for him. I I I do. I do feel bad for him because again, he's always this skeptico. Last year against Inter, when we lost, they said it was his fault that how could you let um who was it that scored a Serbian? How could you let a Serbian come in and score like that? And it's like Come on. There is a lot more buildup to it that it wasn't just Araujo. At the end of the day, we win as a team, we lose as a team. It's very easy to do.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

But it's just it always happens when when like you guys let in a goal, it's like, oh, there's Araujo right there. You made that mistake right there.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

And it's very easy to point him out. And it's very easy to point it out. And it does happen. And it and it's very frustrating. Just because it happens so often. Yeah, it does. It does happen often. But at his point, I don't I don't see a reason for him to start the next game. I really don't, because I think Eddie Garcia should be back. And if not, we got this kid. I don't think he'll start against Newcastle, but I would love to see him start this weekend. Xavi Spart. He came on like the last five minutes. Yeah, for La Macia. Same age as Lamin and Kuwarci and Bernal. I don't know what was in the water in 2007 over at La Macia, man. But holy shit, they're sprouting these kids left and right over there. But this kid apparently is really, really good. I mean, we only saw like 10 minutes of him at uh this past game of St. James's Park. And he put up he put in a pretty decent performance. In training, Hansy Flick has even compared him to Philip Lom, which I think that is one of the highest praises you can give somebody because Philip Lom to me, to me, he is one of the best fullbacks of all time. And in my opinion, I think he's he's the best fullback in the last like maybe 20 years.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Over your boy Danny Alves?

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Yes. I think he's better than I think he's better than Donny Alves. Yeah, hot take. I think he's better than Danny Alves. I think he's better than Marcelo, Jordi Alba. Alright, alright, all right. Trent Calwalker.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You said Marcelo there. Relax, bro. Relax. No way. Leave my boy Marcus alone. He's better than all of that. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. You can talk shit about your boy Donny Alves, but no. Leave my boy Marcelo alone, bro.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

No, I'm sticking to it. He's better than all of them. He's better than all of them, in my opinion. I think he's I think he's a pr he's pretty underrated just because of his size and stature, but he could play on the left, he can play on the right, he could play as a midfielder.

SPEAKER_03 24:15

No, yeah, he is up there for sure. I mean, it's it's him or Donnie Alves to me. At least from the players I've seen. Cafu was around, but I didn't really get to see him play.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

I mean, Cafu was towards the end of his career whenever Philip Lahm broke out to the scene. So I don't think really countdown. But yeah, I mean I don't think like, like not Trent, not Kyle Walker, not. I would have thought you said Donny Alves, though, for sure. Not Donny Alves. I think obviously Donny Alves is up there. And it's no.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

Well, yeah, like I said, it's between it's between him and Philip Blahm for right back. But yeah, I guess Philip Blahm, he's just very versatile too. Like you said, he can play left backs, and a defensive mid. Yeah, but I'm just talking about right back.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

I'm talking about fullbacks. I'm talking about left and right backs. I'm thinking, I'm I'm saying he's he's yeah, don't touch my boy Marcelo.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

Marcelo's the best left back. He does. He's the best. That's a whole different conversation. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Anyway, Hunts is like to compare this kid Shotgun Spark to Philip Lom. I was like, I gotta watch this kid play. I hadn't seen anything. Like I started watching a little bit of clips on YouTube, and I was like, this kid's pretty good. But at the end of the day, like I've seen, like I used to watch clips of like Ricky Pugge on YouTube, and I was like, oh that kid's pretty good. And then it was over LA. Now he's well, he's got a broken ACL. He's not gonna play for he's not gonna play for yeah, yeah, yeah. He tore his ACL twice. He tore it last year, and then he had surgery, and then they had to do another surgery. So he's out this whole season again. Poor guys.

SPEAKER_05 25:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Back to back BCL too. But um, anyway, I'm excited to see. I I would like to see him play a little bit more against Avija. I don't know if he starts, but I would like to see him play at least like I don't know, 20, 30 minutes uh against Sevilla. That'd be nice. But I'm excited about this kid. Yeah, I apparently he's he's he if if we can sprout a right back, I would be so happy because that's we need a right back. And if we can get a right back out of La Mosilla, that means we don't have to go into the market because realistically, like what right back is there right now that I would go and get honestly and don't even know. Like off the top of my head, I don't know. So if we can get this kid and we can get him, obviously for free, we can get him at lower wages because he's 18. And that would be sick.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

That would be sick. Yeah, plus you guys are broke, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Well we're almost there, we're getting there, we're getting there, we're getting there, we're fixing things, we're fixing things, we're fixing things, but anyway, but you guys get the draw against Newcastle.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

And that was pretty lucky, too, by the way, because that penalty, yeah, it was a foul, but it was past the four minutes, bro. It's like the ref just wanted you guys to have one last attack, one last attack.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

Chill out, chill out, chill out with all the lucky, bro. If you're gonna play that card, Valverde shouldn't have even played the game today because he punched that Benfica guy in the face. He should, he should have at least a three-game suspension.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

No, get the hell out of here. That's just how Valverde plays. Valverde just get the hell out of the way.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

I know he plays it all the time.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

And you know what the ref felt situation he can just punch people?

SPEAKER_00 27:30

No.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

Yo, we got a freebie because of what happened with Vinicius, bro. Relax. That's exactly what happened.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

We get that freebie. That's exactly what happened. The ref was like, hey, we're gonna we're gonna let this one slide because of this whole Vinicius situation, but it shouldn't have been that way. He punched that guy square in the face. Valverde shouldn't have played.

SPEAKER_03 27:48

Well, his face shouldn't have shouldn't have been where his fist went. Should have just got out the way. Anyways. That's exactly what you would say. But anyway, I'm saying you guys were lucky. We get we were lucky. You guys got that PK past that four-minute mark. It was 20 seconds past. Like that happens all the time. It wasn't like it was three minutes past or anything. It doesn't happen all the time. Maybe, maybe to you guys it happens, but it doesn't happen all the time. It happened, it happened to you guys played against us. It happened to you guys played against us.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

When we lost, I can't remember exactly what happened.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

We probably lost that game anyways. No, I think we actually might have scored like a like a last minute goal, but we were still losing. I don't know what game we're talking about, but I was glad you. Regardless, all I'm saying is this is the Champions League. All eyes are on this competition, and you guys got a lucky penalty past the final whistle.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

It wasn't a lucky, it was a penalty. Was it past the final whistle? Yeah, like at the end of the day, the reps always play past the final whistle. Nobody ever stops it. No ref ever stops it right at you know the third. I've definitely seen.

SPEAKER_03 28:59

I mean, ref can definitely just call it at that four-minute mark.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

You can definitely call it. They can, but they very rarely do. They very rarely do.

SPEAKER_03 29:07

If it was Newcastle attacking, if it was Newcastle attacking and they were down one-zero. I ain't boarded off.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

Nah, he wanted to. Um, but you made me lose my train of thought. Oh, yeah. So we get you we do get very lucky with the pen at the end. Donnie Omo draws it. He came in, did pretty good. He's really good at that. He's really good at tight spaces inside the box. He draws a pen. Lameen steps up. The ball's on Lemin to do that, or my hat's off to him because he didn't really play that good of a game. No, neither didn't get the last penalty.

SPEAKER_03 29:42

Neither did Levy.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

No, we'll talk about Levy. That's pretty quiet. Lamine missed his last penalty against G D O now. And he comes out. He takes the penalty at the last minute at St. James's Park. Everybody's booing on him. Everybody's whistling him. And he slots it perfectly to the Ramsdale's other side.

SPEAKER_03 30:01

I really thought Newcastle was gonna win that. I really thought Newcastle was gonna win. I thought so too.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

And realistically, after seeing the way we were playing, at one point I was like, I would just take this one-nil defeat and just take it. Like, let's just finish this at home. Like, let's take the one-nil defeat, let's just not concede any more goals and let's just take this home. We got that penalty, and I was like, this is golden. Like, it couldn't have happened any better for Barcelona to get that 1-1 draw. Terrible for Newcastle. They should have capitalized on that. But huge, huge opportunity for us to completely batter them at home.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

Yeah, I don't see at the Camp New. I don't see I don't see that happening again. If you guys do lose in the Camp New. I'm gonna have a feast if you guys do.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

Well, I'm gonna have a feast if Man City comes back 3-0, 3-0 down. That would be that would be insane. That would be insane.

SPEAKER_03 30:58

But it ain't happening because we're the Kings of Europe, baby. I can't believe I ever doubted my club. I can't believe it. You know what?

SPEAKER_00 31:10

Best player in the world, right there.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

Give him the ball in Dora right now.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Do you know what's crazy? Do you know what's crazy? Is I was talking to my my friend, and I was like, I'm gonna have to listen to my brother say Valverde is the best player in the world and he needs some Velon d'Or. I knew you were gonna say some stupid shit like that. You know me too well.

SPEAKER_03 31:26

You know me too well. But tell me, who does it all like Federico Alberde, bro? Nobody. Absolutely nobody. I can't think of one player.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Nobody. He is a he is a Swiss army knife. He plays everywhere, and he's uh he's a good one.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

He does it all perfectly, bro. And then his teckers, his touch, his shot, his pass, his physicality, the way he plays off the ball, just oh my god, dude. Like any coach would love to have this guy on their team. Anybody. And he'd be starting anywhere in any position.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

I was talking to my buddy about this. How much do you think Madrid would accept for him? Like if a good offer came in, how much would you guys let him go for?

SPEAKER_03 32:05

Over summer? I mean, definitely at least 120, 120, like this past summer. Now, with this performance, I think the price went up like 50 mil, bro. I'm not taking less than 170. Not less than 170. No, I'm not taking less than 170. No, hell no.

SPEAKER_02 32:22

Even then, I think I'm being a little, I'm lowballing it. Because, dude, I don't think anybody can do what this guy does. And he's still only 27. Like, he's at the prime of his career.

SPEAKER_03 32:30

Like, no, no, untouchable. He is the only player in Madrid. Him and Courtois are the only untouchable players right now. Or Mbappe is? We've won without Mbappe before, bro. I mean, I love Mbappe right now, yeah, but I don't know. A good offer came. All right, let's go get Julian Alvarez. Vinicius will probably be at his best again. So whatever. And we're still gonna win the Champions League with or without him. This guy right here, untouchable. Irreplaceable. Nobody can do what he does. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Very, very interesting. Um anyway, we had other games in the Champions League as well, like we talked about earlier. The Premier League teams absolutely shit to bed. Let's start with today's Slater games, because Arsenal came in as the favorites, didn't lose a single game. I don't think they even drew a single game during the group stage, and they drew today against Leverkusen. Very similar to Barcelona, they get very lucky with a penalty towards the end. That yeah, let me ask you a lot of people.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

There was contact there, bro. I mean, honestly, I think it was. I really do think it was a little bit of a dive for sure, but there was contact. And if there's contact, it's kind of hard to argue against it. You know, and the thing is go ahead, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

I was gonna say, at first, whenever I first saw it, I was like, that is such a dive. Like, there's no way that's a pan. And they were showing like every angle, and I was like, no way. And the ref didn't even go take a look at it. I think that's what bothered me. It's like the ref didn't even go take a look at it. The ref didn't go take a look at it, but VAR did, and they called him in and saying, no, usually they'll usually they'll be like, you might want to go take a look at this one. I mean, I've seen it, I've seen it from every angle, and there's that one angle where you the one that you're talking about that there is a there is a slight touch. At the end of the day, Malik Tillman, American guy for Bayer Leverkusen, that was a stupid tackle. Yes, it was. Why would you slide? You have zero option, zero possibility of getting the ball. Why would you slide right there? And yeah, but Dwike feels the slightest bit of contact. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:44

But I mean, at the end of the day, it's a contact, bro. And then he went in hard, you know? He did go in hard, even if he like barely clipped him. There was contact in there. You can see there was some contact. So, and I know all the like the Premier League fans, they just hate Arsenal this season because of how they're winning. Because they're just scoring corner kicks, all throwings, crowding the keeper, and now every team is following their lead. So they're all just frustrated with Arsenal, so they're just trying to, you know, talk shit however they can about this team, which, all right, I get it. But at the end of the day, I personally think it was a penalty. There was contact there. Sorry, dude.

SPEAKER_00 35:25

Like at first I thought it was a dive. At first I thought it was a dive, but after seeing every single different angle, I there is contact there, and you can't argue against the contact. Like he gets him, he clips him. It was a careless challenge. Exactly. But Dweke took advantage of that, and it's it's a penalty. Is it soft? Soft? It's a it's you can say it's soft, but it's a it's a pen.

SPEAKER_04 35:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

It's a pen at the end of the day. It's a penalty, too. But they get a big draw against Leverkusen.

SPEAKER_03 35:58

Leverkusen scored off a corner kick, which is funny.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

Arsenal got a little taste of their own medicine. By time they did. Yeah. But Leverkusen, I think Leverkusen um outplayed them. Didn't really get to watch the full game, only mainly saw the highlights, but it looked like Leverkusen really outplayed them. And Arsenal had a really, really tough game again, lucked out with that penalty. Now they take it home to the Emirates. I don't really see them losing at the Emirates, to be completely honest. Me either. I don't see them losing that game to the Emirates. But uh they hadn't they they struggled today. They struggled today for sure, and that's going to stick with them mentally. So we'll see what happens next week with their return.

SPEAKER_03 36:36

Kai Havertz scored the penalty. He's a Leverkusen Academy graduate, so. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't celebrate it. He was Nah he didn't celebrate it. He didn't celebrate it, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

I saw Kai Havertz up there and I was like, this guy might sky this thing. But I haven't seen him play in a while because he was injured, I believe. But yeah, no, he he put it away pretty decently. He put it away pretty decently, but that was it. Leverkusen won. Arsenal won. Let's talk a little about PSG Chelsea, because that was a that was a pretty intense game. That was a very intense game. I was I was watching the Galazzo show, and then um I I turned it off, had to go pick up my son from daycare, and then I came back, it was three to two. I came back and they finished five to two. I was like, what the fuck happened?

SPEAKER_03 37:20

It was a pretty intense game. Up to 2-2, it was pretty even, and then PSG just ran away with it. And so good goals too. When Kara Scalia came in, he changed the game for them. I think he was pretty pissed off that he didn't start. He was, yeah, Barcolo. Barcola also put up a good a good performance as well. So I think Luis Enrique has a little bit of a yeah, I think Luis Enrique has a little bit of a headache there, trying to figure out his starting 11 with Barcoloa or or Kravaskella, because both of them are just dude, they're very disgusting players. Yeah, they're really good. And they both put up a good performance. Especially now that Dembela's back. You dude, and his goal today? Oh my god, bro. Like he just ran from midfield on that counterattack, pretended like he was gonna shoot with his left, and then went with his right foot. He doesn't have a weak foot. Nobody knows which foot he's gonna use. So that's like the most confusing thing ever. Defending him has to be so fucking annoying.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

It's it's because you really don't know who what foot he's gonna use because he's so good with both of them.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

He's probably the best two-footed player that I've seen in a long time.

SPEAKER_03 38:31

For sure. For sure, dude. I mean, when somebody asked him when he was in uh was he in love? Yeah, when he was at when he was somebody. Yeah, he didn't know which one was a stronger foot. So that's they were that was a funny ass interview.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

Because they're like, what what foot do you prefer? He's like, oh, I think the right. He's like, you take the penalties with your left.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

He's like, oh maybe that like never even realized it. Yeah, he really doesn't have a weak foot, but yeah, it drives defenders crazy. And then that run from Hakimi too to distract the to drag the center back, or was it Kukureja? I don't remember who it was, but he just dragged them so Dembela could just finish that off perfectly.

SPEAKER_00 39:13

Well, it couldn't have been Kukureya, because freaking Kukureya is for the other team. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 39:17

No, he dragged Kukureya. No, no, no, Hakimi, Hakimi dragged Kukureja is what I'm saying, and that goal.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

Yes. Um, yes, I mean, and it was an interesting sequence because Chelsea had a good opportunity there. I forget who uh it might it might have been from from Pedro Neto or Trapero, one of the two, Sofunov had a great save, and then yeah, that counter killed him. And as soon as Dembelli got that ball, I was like, oh, that's dangerous.

SPEAKER_03 39:42

Yeah, it should have been a goal from Cole Palmer, actually. Cole Palmer took that shot, then the keeper saved it, and then from there came the counterattack.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

That's who it was. It was Cole Palmer. Yeah. Um, and then Jorgensen had a pretty big mistake, which led to Vitinha's goal. And then after that 3-2, that's when everything started going downhill. I think they should have just kept that 3-2 score, and then again, I don't really know what happened, but they let two more goals in, and I think that's it's gonna be really difficult for them to climb back to the street.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

Yeah, they won't they won't have a chance. Chelsea hasn't been performing well this season. No. Especially after Enzo Marisca left. But I'll give Enzo Fernandez some flowers. He did really good. He had an assist and a goal. Yeah, he played well. Enzo played really well. Enzo played really well. And now all the time. I'm lobbying for him to come to Real Madrid. Let's go, baby. I need another midfielder in there to help Fed Eco. Yeah, you guys keep buying them.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

We'll keep producing them. But anyway, going on to the Cinderella story of the Champions League. The guys over in Norway, the guys over at Bodo Glimps, because three-nil victory against sporting. Three-nail victory against sporting? That is insane.

SPEAKER_03 41:05

I mean, and they were like in 32nd place by like match day six. And then they beat City, then they beat Atletico, then they beat, was it Juventus? No, Inter Milano. No, Enter. Yeah, Enter. They beat Enter, and now they're here. That's crazy, man. They barely like made to the playoffs, and now they're here, dude. This is the beauty of this new format.

SPEAKER_00 41:28

This is the beauty of this new format, this is the beauty of the game in general. It's the beauty of the game in general.

SPEAKER_03 41:33

And last team they were played today. Yeah, that's crazy, man. But seeing how Arsenal played today, I think if those are the two teams that go through to the quarterfinals, I think Arsenal will really struggle against Bodo Glimp next round.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

I mean, I said it to you last week. I'm more scared of playing against Bodo Glimp than I am playing against Arsenal. Because those Norwegian boys, they got nothing to lose. They got nothing to lose, and they're playing very well. And playing in Norway, that's gonna be that's gonna be tough to be. Crazy, man.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

That's gonna be really tough.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

I want no smoke from the Norwegian boys, but I don't think I don't think sporting's gonna come back from this one. And it that that is probably gonna be Arsenal's, which I mean, Arsenal more than likely gonna make it. That's probably gonna be Arsenal's um Achilles heel there, is trying to get over Bona Glimp because they're not gonna get there, it's not gonna be easy for them. I mean, just looking at the stats here, they had their expected goals was 2.4. Sporting's was 0.5. They had 10 total shots.

SPEAKER_03 42:38

They're a serious club, man.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

They were a serious club. They had five big chances created. Sporting had zero.

SPEAKER_03 42:45

No, they're gonna go on a run. They're gonna go on a run. Ooh, man. This is a this is a fun team to watch, man. I always love the Cinderella stories. I love the black horse. I hope they make it to the semis at least. And if they play you guys in the semifinals, I'm telling you, man, I want no smoke.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

I'd rather play Wells. You guys play the second leg of Norway, too. Is it the no, no? We would have the the second game. The second leg would be at home because we finished ahead of them. No, you're right, you're right. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

That's how it goes. You're right, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

Yeah, we finished ahead of them. Um I tell you, them boys got nothing to lose. They got nothing to lose. So good for them. Shout out to them. We didn't think they were gonna be Norway. They got they got they got pretty much everybody in the soccer world behind them right now.

SPEAKER_03 43:33

Yeah, no, I knew they were gonna beat sporting for sure. I said it last time. They'll beat sporting, and then against Arsenal, I was like, I don't know. But after seeing both performances today, that's gonna be tough for Arsenal.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

It is gonna be tough. It is gonna be tough, but good for them. I don't really see them losing this one in Portugal. You never know what happens, but our boy Luis Suarez, he he struggled. And sporting struggled. We'll see what happens next week. But Bodoglen basically got one foot into the quarterfinals for the next round. And who else has one foot into the quarterfinals? Byron Munich does. Because they absolutely destroyed Atalanta at that game. Six to one.

SPEAKER_04 44:19

Yeah. Michael Elisa, what a player.

unknown 44:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:24

Scoring some bangers, man.

SPEAKER_00 44:27

MVP of the game, Luis Diaz with another assist. Luis Diaz has been crushing it. Has been absolutely crushing it this game.

SPEAKER_03 44:38

And Harry Kane didn't even play this game, dude. Yeah. They had Nicholas Jackson, former Chelsea player, he scored.

SPEAKER_00 44:46

Yeah, Nicholas Jackson scored. Will Shell scored. Well, I will say the only sad thing, man, is that Fonsey Davis. Fonsey Davis came on at the 46th minute and came off injured again. Played for 30 minutes, got an assist, and then he came off injured at the 71st minute. Man. Yeah, it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_05 45:06

Prayers out to him.

SPEAKER_03 45:07

I feel bad for him. Right now, when he's healthy, he's probably one of the best left backs out there. I would say it's him and Nuno Mendez when both are healthy. They're the best left backs right now.

SPEAKER_00 45:20

For sure. For sure. But it it is really sad to see. And now I was starting to say, now they're starting to say, will he even make it to the World Cup? Will he even make it to the World Cup?

SPEAKER_03 45:30

Especially playing at home, not being able to make it.

SPEAKER_00 45:34

Yeah. Muciala also came off with a bit of a knock, apparently, uh at halftime.

SPEAKER_06 45:40

So it sucks.

SPEAKER_00 45:42

He he's just getting back after that terrible injury that he had against PSG. That was terrible. That was a tough injury. But uh nevertheless, Bayern Munich is a very, very tough opponent. That's who you guys would face if you make it past Man City, which looks like you both have a leg into the quarterfinals as well. That's gonna be a tough game for you.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

How do you feel about that? Listen, after today's performance, it just reminded me that we're the kings of Europe. And listen, I I don't remember the last time Bayern knocked us out. I think Bayern, last time he knocked us out, was in 2007. I don't remember the last last time before. No?

SPEAKER_00 46:23

No, no, no, no, no. You guys played when did Byrne win the UCL? Was that in 2013?

SPEAKER_03 46:31

Or in 2020, in 2020, but we didn't play them that year. And in 2013, we didn't play. No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about you did it? You didn't play them? Mm-mm. Last time we played them was two years ago when Jose Lu scored those two goals at the last minute. We beat them there. Then before then was 2017-2018 in the quarterfinals, no semifinals. We beat them there too. And then the year before that, in the quarterfinals, we beat them then. We beat them as well then. So I don't remember the last time. Yeah, no, the last time Byron knocked us out was in 2006, 2007, in the round of 16. No, you guys lost to them in the semifinals of the Champions League in 2012 on penalties. Oh, you're right. You're right. In penalties, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That penalty. Oh my God. I try to forget about that because frickin' Ronaldo, Cacas, or Geramos, the best three penalty takers in the history of Real Madrid, just whiffed it.

SPEAKER_02 47:28

Oh my goodness. Dude, that completely left my frickin' memory. And you just brought it back, you fucking asshole.

SPEAKER_03 47:35

I thought so. I was like, I'm pretty sure it happened. Anyways. Yeah, I was still. Pretty sure. And they took us to penalties.

SPEAKER_00 47:43

Yeah. But they did. Because I remember that was that was with Mourinho. And Mourinho.

SPEAKER_02 47:49

Yeah, it was with Mourinho. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

That was like that was that was the Champions League that I should have won and he didn't.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which he should have. If it wasn't for Ronaldo Cacan Ramos just freaking missing those penalties. That's crazy. Man. Pressure too too much pressure. Honestly, man, I I feel good. If we beat Man City at the Etihat again, I would be feeling nice. I'm not going to lie. I would be feeling pretty confident. I know Byron is probably the team that's most informed right now, and it will be a tough matchup, but I'm I'm confident in the Kings of Europe. We can get it done for sure. And it'll be after this performance. I mean, this is a big confidence booster for Real Madrid. Hopefully they keep translating this into La Liga, and then it just becomes a domino effect. That way we can go all the way to the Champions League final. Because we can do it. If anybody can do it, it's us.

SPEAKER_00 48:50

You keep dreaming, but you also have to go up against uh a little guy from La Guajira in Colombia called Luis Diaz. And Luis Diaz has now produced 39 goals and assists and 42 games in all competitions this season. 22 goals, 17 assists. That is a Balondoro worthy.

SPEAKER_03 49:14

Just like this guy right here. Just like that guy. Shut the fuck up. I got I got I got two Bolonduro worthy players. One for Colombia, one for Real Madrid. Jesus Christ. Well, guess what? Madrid has played against Luis Diaz before in the Champions League final. Done. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. He had to face this guy named Thibaut Cortois. Yeah, we'll see. He's a lot more mature now. A lot more mature now. He might dance all over Trent, but that's alright because you know who's right behind Trent? This guy right here. This guy. This guy right here. This guy. This guy. So he won't pass him. That's for sure. He won't dribble past Valverde. Maybe when it's time to play Uruguay, he'll do that, but not when he's got to play around Madrid. Nope.

SPEAKER_00 50:00

You remember what Richard Rios did to uh Valverde in the Cope America fight in the Cope America? I do. I do remember that.

SPEAKER_03 50:10

I was happy about that. But guess what? Did he do that with Benfica? No. No, he didn't do that with Benfica, but. No, he didn't do it with Benfica, exactly. And that's fine. They can do with the Columbia jersey all damn time. I don't care. With the Columbia jersey, I don't care. They can go all in on Valverde, but when Val Verde has that Madrid jersey, it's go time, baby. Nobody's dribbling past this guy.

SPEAKER_00 50:34

Yeah, I think uh Rafinha did actually a couple times, and he ended up scoring. He laid it off, I believe it was to Alejandro Valdez. Super goal. Yeah, whatever. Super goal.

SPEAKER_03 50:43

I don't remember that one. I don't remember that. You're just making that up.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

Let me let me let's pull it up really quick. Let's pull it up really quick. Anyway, last game that we gotta last game that we gotta look over is Galatasaray won. Liverpool nil. Liverpool struggle. Second to last.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

We still gotta go for Atletico in Tottenham, too.

SPEAKER_00 51:02

Well, that's right. Oh my god. Well, yeah, let's go. Okay. So Galatasaray and Liverpool. Liverpool struggle in Turkey again. I can't what I can't remember the last time Liverpool won in Turkey. Galatasaray took advantage of that. Those fans are intense. Very, very intense. One-nil win over Liverpool. Liverpool still continue to struggle. However, I do think Liverpool win this at Anfield next week. I think so too.

SPEAKER_03 51:29

We talked about last week, too. We said that they were gonna struggle in Istanbul, but that second leg in Anfield, it's gonna be big for them. They could do it. I feel like it could be 1-0 and then they go to extra time. And I think they might win it at extra time.

SPEAKER_00 51:46

They might, they might, but I I mean I think they're gonna win regardless, whether it's extra time, whether it's penalties. I I don't see Liverpool losing at Anfield in the Champions League knockout stage. I don't see that happening.

SPEAKER_03 51:58

But um pretty disappointing performance from Liverpool, though. Like this whole season has been really tough. I think they're really gonna get rid of Arnest Lot and put in Shabi Alonso ASAP. I think that's what they're doing.

SPEAKER_00 52:10

I think I think I think they're just waiting for the season to be over.

SPEAKER_04 52:14

And they're gonna they're gonna bring in Xabi Alonso over the summer. Yeah. It's inevitable.

SPEAKER_00 52:22

Let's look at let's look at the last one. Atletico Money, five, Tottenham two. I mean, it was it was four boys 25 minutes. Poor guy, bro. Honestly, I feel bad for him. It feels so bad for him because he's two years old. It is. Let's be real. He should have beginning with if anybody is to blame, it's Igor Tudor.

SPEAKER_03 52:47

Yep. And then taking him off at the 17th minute. I mean, at least wait till halftime, dude. Because now that's what everyone's gonna talk about. That's what everyone's gonna remember him as. And it's such a young guy, like you said, he's only 21 years old. That's just gonna mess with him for the rest of his career. So that's that's that really is all Igor Tudor's fault. Should have never started him in the first place and should have at least let him finish. I know, I mean, he had two terrible mistakes, but I mean, for him to progress on his career, that's just gonna stick with him forever. It's gonna stick with yeah, he's gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 53:25

Yeah, it's kind of like uh carriers. You gotta l yeah, yeah. And we know how this carrier ended. He just fell off a hill. Absolutely. So, but I hope that doesn't happen to Kinski. I hope that he he can recover for this. I hope that he gets the help mentally that he needs because he is gonna need some some help.

SPEAKER_03 53:46

It's tough to recover from this.

SPEAKER_00 53:47

Because it's gonna be very tough to recover from this because there's gonna be players in the dressing room that are gonna blame you. There's gonna be fans that are gonna blame you. There may be some people on the coaching staff that are gonna blame you, and you're gonna have to overcome that and be resilient and persevere through that. You're still only 21 years old, man. You got your whole fucking life ahead of you. You're gonna make mistakes. It was a yes, it was a pretty bad mistake, but again, at the end of the day, two Igor Tuno should have never, never, yeah, two of them. Should have never put them in that position. Mickey van de Vins made the other terrible mistake in that second goal, I think it was. This reminds me a lot of a Barcelona game in Copo de Rey against Atlético Madrid. We were down four nail at half as well, and we were slipping and sliding everywhere. And Tottenham were slipping and sliding everywhere, and it was four nail at half.

SPEAKER_03 54:35

Yeah, it's that pitch, man.

SPEAKER_00 54:37

That pitch is tough. Metropolitano pitch is tough. It's tough, man. I don't know what the biggest is. The ball goes quick, it bounces. Uh, it's tough to play there. And Atletico Madrid know how to take advantage of it. But um, yeah, Tottenham just keep going from bad to worse. What a junk they club. Are they officially dead? Because this is the only tournament they have left to fight for, realistically. I mean, they're fighting to stay alive in the Premier League at this point because they're in 17th place.

SPEAKER_03 55:07

They gotta focus on that, man. They gotta focus on fighting, getting out of the relegation zone instead of freaking focusing on the Champions League. It might be just better for them to get out of the Champions League and focus on the Premier League. Because they're really they're right there, man. They honestly can get relegated. It's a joke. What a joke of a club.

SPEAKER_00 55:29

It very much can happen. It very much can happen. They're only, let's see, let me take a look at the table. They are one point away from relegation. They're 16th.

SPEAKER_03 55:38

Yeah, they're like 16th right now. Well, yeah, only one point away from relegation. It's like with West Ham and uh I forgot, somebody else is down there too. Not in Forest, I think.

SPEAKER_00 55:46

Non and Forest, yeah. Non and Forest, yeah. Them three are battling it out. Yeah, I I mean, when was the last time Tottenham even won a game? I think it was in the champions, yeah, it was uh I don't think they won a game this year in in the calendar year. No, they did. They beat Dortmund 2-0. Yeah. And they beat uh Frankfurt uh 2-0 as well. So they've won in the Champions League, but they haven't won in the Premier League this calendar year. They haven't won a single game. The last game that they won in the Premier League was against Crystal Palace in December 28th. And they haven't they haven't they're on a pretty bad streak right now. So they yeah, I think if I'm taught them, I would honestly just take this L. I would be like, forget the fucking second leg because we're not gonna win the Champions League anyway. Let's just focus on staying in the Premier League. If I'm Tottenham.

SPEAKER_04 56:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 56:45

And uh at the Tottenham Stadium. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

Yeah, that was a pretty awful performance from Tottenham, pretty awful performance from Premier League teams all around. Yeah. And we'll see how many of them end up going 30. You know who's happy?

SPEAKER_03 57:03

Arsenal. Arsenal's pretty happy. If they win the Premier League and see their biggest rival go down and into the relegation, dude.

SPEAKER_04 57:11

What a year for Arsenal.

SPEAKER_05 57:15

What a year for Arsenal.

SPEAKER_00 57:17

What a year. Yeah. No, that would be that the Arsenal fans would celebrate that forever. Especially because now, again, I really don't see Arsenal losing the Premier League. There was a point there after they drew against Wolves where everybody was like, oh, they they're slipping, but then Man City.

SPEAKER_04 57:35

They bounced back, and Man City slipped.

SPEAKER_00 57:37

So Man City slipped as well. So it's gonna be really tough for Arsenal to lose this one. Anyway, that wraps it up for the Champions League, man. Uh pretty, pretty good. I do want to get your thoughts.

SPEAKER_03 57:50

I do want to get your thoughts on one thing. And it's a little off topic, but I I just want to get your thoughts on it. Because it did happen this week and it's relevant. There was some tension between Xavi and Juan Laporta.

SPEAKER_05 58:03

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 58:05

What's going on there, dude? Who are you siding there with? Because I mean, Xavi brought up some good points. He it looks like he was telling the truth, but at the same time, why now? Is he jealous of Hansi Flick, of how good he's doing with the same team that he had? What's going on? What's going on?

SPEAKER_00 58:22

It's not, it's not, he's not jealous of Hansi Flick. He's just so for some context here, the Barcelona presidential elections are going on right now. So John Laporta had to resign as president in order for him to run again per the bylaws. So he's running against this other guy named Victor Font, who also ran in 2021 and lost against John Laporta. Victor Font has basically been promising Xavi a bunch of things since 2021. And now this time around, he's got him on his corner, and he figured, well, let me use Xavi as a way to get myself elected. And that's why Xavi did that interview, essentially, is to He did that for Victor Font? Yeah, basically, because he's on Victor Font's side and he it he probably won't come out and say it directly, but that's essentially what it is. He wants to move the elections towards Victor Font. So what better way to do it than come out during an election time and talk trash about John Laporta? That's exactly what it is. It's not that he's jealous of Hansi Flick. He's still obviously clearly very hurt by the way that John Laporta got rid of him, which I don't blame him. That was that that was tough. But I mean, can you blame John Laporta at the end of the day? Like, look at where we are with Hansi Flick right now.

SPEAKER_04 59:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:40

What about what he said.

SPEAKER_03 59:41

What about what he said about Messi? That Messi was really close to coming back in 2023, but then John Laporta said no because it's so weird. He didn't have the funds for it, but La Liga gave the green light to it. What's going on?

SPEAKER_00 59:56

It's weird because it's it's so funny because again, Victor Font, he's such a weird candidate because he he's only running on nostalgia. He's running on, like, oh, I'm gonna bring Messi back. Oh, I'm bringing Shavi back as a coach, and all these things. And it's like, we don't want that anymore, right? Like Messi. Well, obviously, we love Messi. He's the greatest player in the history of our club, he's the greatest player in the history of the sport, but he's gonna be 30. At this point, we're we're we moved on past that, right? It's it's it's it's so hard to understand what Xavi is saying right now because I I can't tell who's telling the truth. I think there is some truth to what everyone is saying, but I don't know who's telling the full truth because yes, Shavi says that in 2023 we got the green light to sign Messi again after the World Cup, and Messi wanted to come back. Which that is true. Messi didn't want to come back. This is true. And they were very good. Here's where it gets a little dicey is that he says that La Liga gave the green light. At that time in 2023, we were going to court with uh with La Liga and Javier Tevas, who's the president of La Liga, because we still couldn't register Gabi. So you're telling me that we can't register players. We're going to court with the league because we can't register players, and we're gonna we're gonna get the green light from La Liga to sign Messi. That doesn't add up to me, right? Obviously, John Laporta came out and said, that's not true. Javier Tevas came out and said, no, we never gave them the green light. But here's where it gets even more.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:40

I didn't see that about Javier Tevas. I was gonna say he's gotta come out and say something then.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

Yes, Javier Tevas did say we did not give the green light, but here's where it gets weird. Because Messi's camp apparently is saying, not Messi himself, Messi's entourage is saying what Xavi's saying is true. And then here's where it gets even more crazy. Mateo Alemani, who was Barcelona's sporting director at the time, he's now over at Tatico Madrid. Matteo Alemani came out and said, what Xavi is saying is true. So La Liga did give the green light. So now I'm like, who the fuck is here? Yeah, yeah. I have no, I think there's some truth. Like I said, I think there's truth to everything, but it doesn't, in my mind, it doesn't make sense how La Liga would give the green light for us to sign Messi where we're having trouble registering players to begin with. And that's why, and and even back then, Shavi did an interview back in 2023 and they asked him about it. And he said, Oh, like we didn't get the green light from La Liga, we were so having some financial troubles. And whenever Messi did the announcement of him going to enter Miami, he did a big interview about it, and they were asking him about if Barcelona was ever on the table. He said yes, but they had some financial struggles. If I would have came back, that means that a lot of players would have had to reduce their wages, we would have had to sell players, and I didn't want that for the club, so I decided to not come back. And that was from Messi's mouth.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:04

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:05

So then it's like, why are we doing this right now? I think Shavi, I understand why Xavi's doing it because he's with Victor Font and he wants to get him elected. Who knows what Victor Font promised him? I have no idea. But I understand that he came out and spoke. I don't think he's gonna be the coach. But here's the thing there's a lot of there's a lot of sources that are saying that if Hansi, if John Laporta doesn't get re-elected, Hansie Flick leaves at the end of the season. And even John Laporta said that if Dekko ever leaves, Hansie Flick said that he would leave. And Decko is our current sporting director. And I don't think Dekko would stay as sporting director if Victor Defont gets elected. There's a lot of, you know, back and forth there. Here's my complete thoughts on it. I think what Xavi did was wrong. I think he's a legend of the club, but I think what he did was wrong. I don't I don't think it was the right timing, especially because we're at a very crucial part of the season, and obviously the players see all this, and that gets in their head, right? Not only are the players tired from playing Atletico Marid, Balbao, Newcastle, Sevilla, Newcastle. Now they gotta go through all this election drama and see Xavi, who's their former coach, come out and say all these things. And John Laporta basically was like, Well, Hansy Flick is winning with the team that you were losing. That's basically what he said.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:25

Yeah, I think just the timing is weird. Why is he saying all this now?

unknown 1:04:28

You know?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:28

It's because of the election.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:31

When is the election?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:34

That's a great question. I think it's at the end of this month. Wow. Who would you vote for? Laporta? But right now he's technically not the president. The president. Because of the election. He's not the president right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:47

So like who's running the club at the moment?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:50

Nancy Flick? Is no, no, no. It was the it was the vice president that I can't remember his name. Hold on. Rafa Juste. He's serving as acting president during the election process, which happens March 15th. So Sunday. Like five five days. Yeah. This Sunday it happens. Wow.

unknown 1:05:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:12

So that's why Shavi, that's why he came out and did that essentially. And I get it. He wanted to speak his mind, he wanted to say his side of the story, which again, the way he left was very, very weird because he quit, then they told him not to, and then they fired him. It was it was all her.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:27

That whole situation was just so weird. It was weird. Yeah, but who is telling the truth? Because I do feel like Xavi's telling some truth to it. But I think so. If Tavier Tevas came out saying that, then Messi too in that interview in 2023. I don't know. It does make it really confusing. Who do you believe?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:45

But even Shabi, even Shavi in 2023 said that we didn't have the financial, we didn't have the green light from La Liga. So he's contradicting himself. So it it it's I don't know. It's it's really disappointing to see a club legend like Shabi come out and do this. Right now, and to get involved in this type of uh election drama, I think that's what disappoints me the most. I think if you want to speak your truth or speak your side of the story about why you were let go and why you were fired and why you don't like John Laporta, that's fine. But I think to do it in this way and to basically be doing it for the opposing presidential candidate who is a guy that like he's not gonna win. Like, there's no way people would vote for this guy. Look at what John Laporta has done since 2021. We were in the brink of bankruptcy, and he has brought us back to being a worthy competing opponent again in the Champions League and in La Liga. We've won two La Liga titles under him. We got to the Champions League semifinal. We've won Copa de Rey, we won Super Cup. We're in first place right now in La Liga. We got to the semifinals of the Copa de Rey. He's renovating the entire Camp No. We got one of the biggest jersey deals in the sport right now with Spotify. We got a new naming rights partner with Spotify as well, so bringing in more sponsors.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:10

Yeah. It's what he's doing. He was the president at that time. So I mean LaForta is basically he's a top dog in the elections.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:22

He has been, right. And listen, he's he's a politician, so he does know how to sway people his way. Like whenever in 2021, whenever he was running for president, which is the year that Messi left, he was basically saying, I'm gonna do my best to get Messi back, and ran on that. He's like, I'm gonna be the one to get Messi back. And guess who didn't get Messi back? Right? Um, and at the end of the day, like I get it. He was trying to do what was best for the club. Like if we would have renewed Messi or we would have bought Messi back in 2023, realistically, we would not have Lamin Yamal or Pennity at this point because we wouldn't have been able to keep all of them. We would have had to sell one of them. Anyway, um, I do think John Laporte's gonna win. I do feel a little bit disappointed in Xavi. I still think he's a legend. I still think he deserves a little bit more respect to the coach than what he got. At the end of the day, he brought up Lamin Yamal, he brought up Pau Cubarsi, he brought up uh Fermin Lopez.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:24

Yeah, he's a big La Macia guy.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:26

He's a big La Macia guy. He made all these guys make their debut. We won La Liga with him. The first La Liga we won without Messi was under Shavi. And the next season, I mean, we're at Madrid, we're just much, much better than we were. You guys won with like 95 points. That's you guys lost one game all season in La Liga. It was it was un you guys were unstoppable. And you guys won the Champions League that year. Where you just we just yeah, you guys at that point before you guys were unstoppable. But anyway, so it was it was tough. But uh he he does deserve some credit. He does deserve some credit for sure. I just I just don't think I think he basically put a nail in the coffin of him ever coming back as a coach for Barcelona. Yeah. I don't think he ever will.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:13

And he even said it himself. I never will. Yeah, it was it was a Iniesta all day, baby. Iniesta Oroshavi all day. You like Iniesta better?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:22

Yeah, dude, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:24

Listen, there's only three Barcelona players I will never talk shit about. Ever, ever. Iniesta's one of them. Pujol is the other one, and Ronaldinho is the other one. Those are the only three you'll never hear me talk shit about. Those three players have my respect. Everybody else can go suck a cack.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:40

That's I'm trying to think about I'm trying to think of Real Madrid players that I respect like that. I would say, I would say Luca Moleric. Oof. I would say Luca Molaric.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:52

You can't hate him.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:53

Um, I would say another player that I really like that played for Real Madrid, Kaka.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:59

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:00

Kaka, I really like him. And at a short stint.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:04

Didn't look like a big short stint, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:06

It wasn't like the best. It wasn't the potential.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:08

He's not necessarily like a Madrid legend, but so you're talking about just Madrid legends? Yeah. Okay, so those look at legends. Fujol's a legend, Ronaldinho's a legend, Ignesta's a legend. Legend, Real Madrid legends.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:23

I would say, okay, let's do this. Luca Benzema.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:29

Ooh, Benzema? You got no hate on Benzema?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:32

Not really, man. I mean, that's I've seen him like. I do respect him. I do like him a lot. I mean, I'm sure there were there were times that he pissed me off, but I'm I I can't think of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:42

Like I'm telling you, Pujol, Iniesta, and Ronaldinho like never pissed me off. Like when Pujol had a good game, I was just like, damn, he's just so fucking good. And like he would always play so good again against Real Madrid. That was like his best performance ever. Again, anytime he played against Real Madrid.

unknown 1:10:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:58

He was a monster. And I was like, damn, why is he so freaking good? You know, it wasn't like Piquet. Like, if he did something good, I'd be like, man, fuck this guy, bro. I I fucking hate him.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:07

You know? Yeah, everybody would say that about Piquet.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:10

I never had that feeling with Pujot ever. Pujot, I just always had so much respect for him. He was just so good, man. Like, I don't know, the the fro, the way he would just sacrifice his body for his team. Yeah. No, it's the best. Very respectable player. Capitan, his leadership. And of course, Ronaldinho. I mean, how can you hate Ronaldinho, man? Ronaldinho is just He's the best. Pure joy. He's pure joy. And even though I'm a Madrid fan, he's one of the reasons why I fell in love with the game. Yeah. Watching Ronaldinho play.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:46

He's the reason why I fell a little bit in the world.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:49

He's the definition of Joga Bonito. Like I think him at his best, he could be better than Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo for sure. He just wasn't concerned.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:00

I think if you would have said the assistant, he would be in that conversation for sure. I think he could have he he had the talent. He had all the talent in the world.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:09

And then Iesta was just he was amazing. Ignaesta was amazing. The things he did on that pitch. Like I remember this goal he scored against, or no, he didn't score it. He assisted Neymar to score against PSG in the Champions League, I think, in 2015. Remember he had that solo run? You remember that? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He did. Oh my god. He had that solo run from like the middle of the field and just started through everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:36

He was just things like that that were just insane. And he was always so humble. He would never talk shit. He was always respectful to his rivals. I love that.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:45

In the media. In the media.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:47

In the media, yeah. He would have so much respect for Real Madrid. I fuck with that. So it's like, all right, I cannot hate this guy. And then in 2010, I was a big Spain guy when they won the World Cup and he he scored that goal. So I just I can't hate him. Those three guys will always have my respect. You'll never hear me talk shit about those three. Everyone else, yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:07

I don't know if I can pick three Madrid players. I'm trying to think, bro.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:10

Well, maybe Traul.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:11

Raul, actually. There we go. There we go. Raul. I thought you maybe would have said Iker Casilles. I'm thinking about Iker, but sometimes he does sometimes he does say some stupid shit. Then I was like, you fucking idiot. But I do like Casillo.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:30

Luca Karim and uh Raul?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:32

Yeah, I do I do like Benzema a lot. I don't know if like I mean you're you're getting too technical about like not talking in shit. Like I'm sure I've talked shit about Benzema, but I do I do like Benzema. I like Benzema a lot. He's one of the best strikers.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:46

That that season when he won the Bowl in De Oro, when he went on a generational run in the Champions League. That was that was impressive. That was crazy. Yeah, I mean he had one at all. I think he just wanted to grab his paycheck and not deal with all like the the pressure anymore.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:05

He was just like, let the young kids do it now. But after Ronaldo left, he was just different, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:12

He was different.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:13

Yeah. I do like, I do like Big Benz. I do like Casillas as well. I do like Casillas. I think, you know, especially when that whole thing with Mourinho went down and uh um the what the Mourinho Guardiola era, you know, Casillas was a big proponent of Casillas, Xabi Pujol, they all came together. We're like, yeah, we gotta get the team back. We gotta respect that. We gotta win. So you do have to resist. Shabi Alonso, too. You can't hate Shabi Alonso. Uh I guess I guess yeah, I don't really. I wouldn't say I hated him, but yeah, I mean I definitely I think I did talk shit about it because he would I forget what he did that pissed me off. Being too good. No, but he was he was solid too. He was he he was a fun player to watch. I was mainly thinking of players that I like to watch. Obviously, that I respect too. I like just because of how good they are. D Money has another one that I liked. Oof. But he when he was at Madrid, he did talk a lot of shit to Barcelona, so I that shit pissed me off. But he was a big messy guy.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:12

He's he is he almost played for Barcelona too. If he would have done that, oh my well, Neymar almost played for Real Madrid.

unknown 1:15:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:20

That shit would have pissed me off.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:23

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:25

I really thought he was gonna come. I thought Neymar would have been a Madrid player for sure. Yeah. Things happen the way they did for a reason. I'm glad he didn't come though, because that guy, he's so injury prone.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:39

Yeah, now his I mean, we'll see if he even makes it to the World Cup. Yeah, I don't know. Poor guys. It's looking tough. I mean, now that one of the eagles hurt, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:48

Maybe, maybe. Tough, man. And we were just talking about him too. I was saying that he was gonna be like the only one that would do something against Manchester City. And then boom. And then ACL, seven months out. Poor guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:02

Yeah, I feel bad.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:03

Poor guy. More. He'll be back, I think beginning of 2027. So he'll be out for like at least nine months.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:11

Damn, that's tough.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:12

That's tough, man. You know what's funny? I just I recently saw a video of this conspiracy theory. I'll have to find it and share it with you, but somebody said that the retractable pitch at the Bernabéo is what's causing all these ACL injuries. Because if you see it's it's been at the training ground or it's been at the Bernardo, and because of the the way that the grass is laid out, it's the the soil's a little bit deeper, so it had the fleet gets caught a little bit more. It's just a conspiracy theory that was running around the internet, and I was like, wait a second.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:48

Maybe yeah. Because you guys have had a lot of ACL. We've had Courtois, Militao has had it twice, Rodrigo just had it, and I know I'm missing somebody else, bro. Well, did it uh did Aliba have ACL or was he? Alaba, yes. Alaba.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:03

Yeah, he had another another ACL injury.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:05

Yeah. I can't remember if all of them were at the Bernabeo, though. Now I now I gotta look back and see when they got injured. That's what somebody said.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:11

Somebody said that it was like, oh, they all happened at the Burnabeo or at training.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:15

I know Courtois got injured at a training ground. I know that. Militao's second injury, his second ACL. Oh, and Carvajal, too. Carvajal freaking tore his ACL. That wasn't the burnable ground.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:25

That was that was that was a nasty tackle. Yeah, that was nasty. That was a nasty tackle. That wasn't a self-injury. He tore everything. He tore his freaking MCL, LCL, PCL. Jeez, Louis.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:40

This is probably his last year.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:42

Yeah, probably. He's probably it's away. Anyway, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:46

Yeah, I think that about wraps it up.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:48

Yeah, that wraps it up. A little Champions League action talk. We'll be back. We'll probably record next week at the same time. Uh talk the next round of the Champions League. We got some little Liga action coming up. Barcelona plays Sevilla. Who do you guys play? Dude, I don't even know. We just beat Celta. Oh, we play El Che.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:07

El Che. El Che at home. So you guys are coming off a pretty big high against Man City. So that's gonna be that's the Derby following week.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:16

Darby Man City. That's gonna be good.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:19

That's gonna be good. But yeah, we'll be back again next week breaking down the Champions League action again of the round of 16. We'll see who ends up going through. We'll see if Barcelona and Real Madrid. It's it's hey, at this point, I thought Man City was gonna knock out Real Madrid. At this point, let me see you guys in the final, man. Let me see Real Madrid in the final.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:41

Let's go. It's never happened before. We gotta make it happen this week.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:45

Let me see Real Madrid in the final, man. I want it. Can you imagine? I need it. I need it. I need to I need that. We gotta do a big advantage if that happens. Yeah. Bigger man in the Medina household, friendly foes. All of our listeners are welcome. All of you guys, all you guys listen to this right now. Welcome to the Friendly Foes Showdown when Barcelona and Real Madrid face off in the Champions League final and Barcelona wins. We'll see that happens.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:15

You're not beating the head of Europe in the final. You're not beating us. Uh-uh. Easy money. Easy money. No, sir.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:22

Maybe in La Liga, maybe in the Super Cup, maybe in the Copa del Rey.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:26

We gotta get past Champions League final. No, sir. No, sir. We gotta get we gotta get past Bodo Glimp first. That's gonna be tougher. Yeah. Worry about that. Worry about Newcastle, too. You guys barely made it made it past Newcastle at St. James Park, so. Newcastle's easy. We'll take care of them at home.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:42

Bodo Glimp. I don't know about those boys. That's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough. All right, man. It's been fun. It's been fun breaking it down. We'll see you guys uh again next week. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to follow us on social media at friendly foes FC, TikTok, Instagram. Tell everybody that the friendly foes are back in action, breaking down the Champions League and everything stalker around the world. We'll see you guys next week.