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The Athletic F-C Totally football show, European edition. Today, Champions League. Will the magpies be Barcelona's equal? Paris and a man Chelsea, who's equal? Will the gunners advise regret? And how tasty does it look when teams from Bergamo and Munchen meet? Plus, should Real Madrid and Manchester City just get a run? Plus, Milan, Derby, KDB returns Luminiumar and more in this totally football show. Monday the night the march and it's the European edition of the totally football show. Doing a remote one for you today, listener, usual crew, just in different low-cars is James, you're heading off your only way to Italy. Bergamo, is it? That is where I'm going. It's the only place in Italy where there's Champions League football jams. So I will be heading there for the first leg of Atalanta by a Munich. Crikey. Want to hear more about that? Want to hear from Tom Williams about PSG's big clash with Chelsea and so much more besides, welcome to you, Tom. Thank you, James. Hello, hello. Hello, hello to you as well. Seb, Stafford Blore is back in Hamburg, ready to dish the dirt on the Bundesliga. Hello, James Richardson. Yes, yes, indeed. Seb's got a working microphone. Yay. We had one or two technical issues there. Paul Balouse, how is your microphone? I think, well, I think that's working good enough, just like, to keep going with it. Like sweet, sweet music, Paul, like sweet music. Hey, speaking of sweet, sweet music, here's a bit of a moment of the week. Segway, Waln Earth was going on before Seltavigo's clash with Roma Drid this weekend. Well, that's a really good shout, basically, because we could see that Seltavigo basically lounge that campaigns through social media with Madonna. We did something that we did not expect to see. Younger listeners should ask their parents, but Madonna was a musical star who enjoyed a lot of success through many decades. And it's been given a new lease of life by the Galician side. It's still no Madonna, if you were young, right? I wonder. She's still prominent. I don't know. I saw Bukai Osaka last week saying he does not know who Selene Dion is. Really? Oh, God, I feel old. Okay. All right. Okay. So basically, the thing is that Madonna did a gig, did a concert in Baleidos in the Seltavigo back in the 90s, well, back in 1990, and performed that gig with a Seltavigo shirt. And Seltavigo basically lounge that campaign to know where this shirt was at, basically. Right. And Madonna ended up replying to that tweet saying that this shirt is just belongs to her and to the archive of his career. And that she really appreciates what it has done and like the picture that she just left to the club. And before the Madrid game, there was this gig and it's just performing of Madonna song just as a... All right. Just a one for the initials of Madonna. Like a Vigo, I thought. Like a Vigo. Yeah. But they did, they did like a prayer, didn't they? And their prayers were answered. No. Oh, sort of. No. I'm surprised that Madonna still has this Seltavigo shirt. She did this. It's quite a cheap trick. Right. If you're an artist, you go around and you're trying to ingratiate yourself with a new fan base, wear a football shirt. Like it feels like something that a lot of artists would have done over the years. Julian or Ron for once. And she is famously quite a material girl. So probably should have seen it coming to be honest. That's very good. That was great. That was excellent. Tom, go on. Then what's your moment of the week? My moment of the week, I'm also going to go for something that occurred pre-match. And this was prior to Lawn's home game against Metz. And Lawn's are currently celebrating the 120th anniversary of the club's foundation in 1906. But this week also marked the 120th anniversary of a very sad, very tragic mine accident in Lawn's. And mining is an intrinsic part of the local culture in that part of the world. Lawn's is a mining town always has been. There was a mining disaster at a place called Courier, which killed over a thousand people in March 1906, the worst ever European mining disaster. And so Lawn's used the opportunity of this game against Metz to sort of reflect that anniversary. There have been some really spectacular pre-match shows at Stad堡 out this season, because of the 120th anniversary commemorations and celebrations of the club, which is a huge T-fo that was unveiled in the sunshine. And Lawn's war there, Awakeit, which is green and black stripes. And that was actually the kit they wore when the club was first founded. And they chose green and black because the green represented Place Vert, which was a green, a grassy area where the club was first founded. And the black represented the coal of the mines. So this big day of commemoration and remembrance. And, yeah, Lawn's runner, 3-0 winners and re-launched there. Their league and title push, so it was a pretty special day. Excellent, excellent, safe stuff abroad. Jimbo, we had a stadium announcer controversy in Cologne over the weekend. So Cologne were playing against British Adortment. And there was a red card late in the first half. And I'll review, got given, the stadium announcer kind of gave a running commentary on what he thought about the red card called it disgusting twice. And then, you know, that was kind of fine, even though the DFB have pretty strict rules about being neutral with all stadium announcements, got quite a lot of partnership across the league, but even so. And then the end of the game. So Cologne felt that they should have had a penalty. Yen Kuto seemingly handled the ball in the Dortmund box would have been a penalty. It was two one at that point. Cologne scrapping for every point they can get. They're on a really bad downturn heading towards the relegation playoff place at the moment. And at the end of the game, the game finished. And the stadium announcer carried on. He said, you know, I think I'm probably going to get in trouble for this, but I just can't believe it. There was a handball in the box. The VAR didn't even review it. And it just went on. It went on to the point where, yeah, he was then interviewed by several German media outlets afterwards. And he said, look, I'm sorry if I offended anybody. It didn't really mean offend that it's just a direct translation. But I'm just a fan. I've been a Cologne fan for 60 years. He'd think the guy is in his 70s now. He's been the stadium announcer, Stadron Schbrecker since 1999. I think so. He's done over a quarter of a century. And he, the situation just got better of him. Just a lot of frustration. It's just the shame that obviously he had a live mic in front of 50,000 people. But yeah, don't get many of those every week. No, I didn't know. He went full network. Mad as hell. Not going to take it anymore. Stradrony's story said, always have to be careful with a live mic in front of you, as we all know. I wondered, actually, if you might go for the Bundesliga's VAR moment this weekend, said which caught a lot of people's eye. Yeah. Where the Hurtabolin clash with his personal monster was disrupted when the VAR sideline monsters weren't working. Why were they not working? This was such fun. This was such fun. So Mikko Kusos, who, if jewels were here, he would start talking about right now. He was fouled in the box just for half time. VAR review went to look at the monitor. Referee approaches the monitor. The screen's blank. Everything's, that's very, very strange. He gets, he's in contact with the VAR through microphone and the VAR instructs him to give the pounties there is a foul. Then in the press your monster and a banner appears shortly afterwards, which says, unplug VAR. There are things okay. There's something up here. Later on, later in the afternoon, images were released, which showed a fan, an ultra-waring, a green balaclava, scaling the fence next to the VAR station. Later, a couple of hours beyond that, the club actually issued a statement apologizing for some VAR vandalism, because the VAR monitor had quite literally been unplugged by the balaclava at ultra. He was wearing a green balaclava in club colors. He looked like, what do you call the high-flying wrestlers? Lucha Libre wrestlers. He looked like one of those in his club. He was, I'm not going to denigrate the guy, but he didn't look like an athlete, but he was still scaling the fence, so it was quite an image, quite a photograph if you can find it. He struck the first blow, Seb, full freedom in football. Where is the VAR station at a German fixture? In Cologne. He went to their version of Stockton Park and basically unplugged them. No, no. It was by the pitch. He jumped the fence. Unplugged the VAR monitor. This is the second division German football, so it's not like he's not breaking onto the pitch of the Emirates. It's not quite the same. Then he'd kind of jump back into the club and vanished. The club promised to find and punish him, and I don't think that's going to happen. No. He's gone. Wow. Into the wind. He is gone. Into the wind. Exactly. Excellent. James Horncastle, a moment of the week. Well, I think every moment of the week, or two-thirds of my moments of the week involve Latia this season, and we've seen an escalation in protest. Now, Premier League fans, if you want to know how to protest, just look at what Latia fans have been doing. It's not the first time they've done this, but they've basically started boycotting their teams games. The Stadio Olympic on Wednesday for the Copper Italia semi-final first leg against Stadilanta was practically empty. We see this a lot in Italy generally, James, but they love sort of protest graffiti, don't they, along with protest banners. There was some protest graffiti in Rome this week, which said, Message for Donald Trump. This is in English. The Tito has a lot of oil, and he's a dictator. You've got to applaud the ingenuity, I mean. Maybe Trump is watching CityR. Maybe he is aware of these protest graffiti on walls in the eternal city. He has yet to come to the rescue of Latia. Maybe he will get to that at some stage, but yeah, this situation with the Eagles, just when you thought last year with the Falconer, who basically sent the mascot around the Eagle, he had a penis enhancement and published that, and then got sacked and squatted at the training ground and needed a victim. Latia is, anyway, it's just the gift that keeps on giving. Well, indeed, well, indeed. Cracky, they're in action this Monday evening, but the rest of the city have all played their games. We're getting on to CityR very, very shortly, but first of all, with no less than three Liga Premier League clashes coming up midweek in the Champions League, let's start off with the latest from our friends in Spain. This is the tightly football show with James Richardson, part of the Athletic FC podcast network. All right, Paul Ballus. We've got Barcelona at Newcastle coming up midweek, and let's go Madrid are taking on spurs, and Real Madrid have drawn Man City. What an interesting time for City to be visiting Madrid. Hey, Paul, no, it's a great time for Man City. I would say there's no one in Spain who would dare possibly to put Real Madrid as favourites in the style, especially with what we saw in the weekend that Real Madrid won. I can tell to the people that they really struggled. They didn't really play well, and they won after last minute winner from Fede Valverde. And yeah, Man City, that in a way, they also arrested players. Real Madrid cannot afford to do that, because they have a long a long list of injuries. There's a lot of uncertainty around Killian and Bappe. The expectation is that he's not going to be ready for the first leg, let's see. As we speak right now, it's Monday morning. He's expected to return to Madrid today. He was in France this last weekend. And let's see how Real Madrid does his scheme. But yeah, there's a lot of doubts in like how Real Madrid play, while Man City, they might not be the biggest force underpegoer of the all, but they are seen as a team in a better place right now than Real Madrid. Real Madrid, who needed that reflective winner in stoppages to get past Seltavigo, this weekend, previous Monday, they lost against Hitafi. How, just how bad is the situation for Abelow's side? Yeah, so that's not, yeah, that's not a good situation. The defeat against Hitafi was really painful. There was like heavy-boying, heavy-wistling after the game. The performance was really below par, because you didn't get the sense that Real Madrid really threatened Hitafi in that game. And I can Seltavigo, they won last minute, last minute effort from Ferdival where they had deflected shot as we said, but five minutes earlier, basically, Yago Aspas from Seltavigo, he hit the post. So Seltavigo had their chances as well. Real Madrid, right now, they struggle like to collectively be a unit. I think that Alvela's focus is just try to be more solid, but they lack a lot of offensive production. I think that's, that's their biggest flaw right now, and they don't have a lot of the goods to try to improve that, because as I was saying, a Mbappe is the major doubt. Real Madrid is going to be out with an ACL injury, if Judd Bellingham is not going to be in there either. So the creativity is down to Benetius, and it's down if like Benetius has a good day. And yeah, that's a bit the bad thing. I think that this man city tie could be really important for Alvela, as well our colleagues from Madrid here at the Athletic, Mario Cortegana and Guillermo Rai, they have reported that Alvela would be in a tough position if he doesn't go through against Man City. So let's see what happens. I don't know who else could run with a point in that situation if they eventually suck Alvela, but it's just to give you a grasp of the tension and the noise that there's a wrong remedy that it hasn't ceased over the past weeks. Meanwhile, Tom, what are they saying in France about Mbappe's knee? It was only about a week ago that some were expressing doubts about even the World Cup. Yeah, I mean, there's concern. I don't think there's concern to that extent. There's been a knowledge in France that he's been carrying this injury for quite a long time, and I remember going back, I think it was early January when Chabielonso was still in the Madrid dug out, and Mbappe was being given some rest and agreed to curtail that period of rest. I think it was a game in the Spanish Super Cup, Paul might be able to correct me if I'm wrong, and it was the game against Man City in the league phase and then the semifinal of the Spanish Super Cup. Yes, and the reporting on that in France was, and Mbappe probably shouldn't be playing in this Super Cup game, but he knows that Chabielonso was in the last chance saloon, and he's prepared to put himself on the line in that sentence in order to try and help, which he did. So, yeah, there is a degree of concern. I don't think there are concerns that he necessarily might miss the World Cup. I think, ultimately, the feeling is that he will probably benefit from this period of rest. There is a concern as to whether he's going to be able to play in the two friendly games that France have got coming up at the end of the month in the states, but I think regardless of whether or not he's fit, he's probably going to go on that trip anyway, even if it's just to go out hand some sponsors and way for the cameras. So, yeah, something that's been followed in in France and inevitably a subject of concern, but I think there's also a sense of relief that he is finally getting a bit of rest and that this issue is finally being looked at. What a terrible time for Real Madrid's prospects, though, for him to be taking that rest. They are thanks to the defeat last Monday to Hitafi, four points out behind Barcelona in the league title race. Barcelona, who, as mentioned, will also have a Champions League midweek fixture. Once again, make the trip to St. James's Park to take on Newcastle, to one there in September with a Marcus Rashford brace. How do you see their prospects of something similar this time, Paul? I think that Barcelona has a context to be moderately positive. The team is tired. They have a lot of injuries as well. They got a bit of a scrappy win on the weekend against Athletic Club. It's always tough to go to some mames, especially after the Copa del Rey semifinal return, like that they played midweek. A lot of tired legs in there and flickered to rotate. But what we saw in the past week, I mentioned that game against Athletico, the Madrid, because I think it was important to leave the mood in Barcelona, because Barcelona, with that performance, they won 3-0, but they were not able to come back from the 4-0 defeat that they got at the Metropolitano. But they showed the fans that they have a team that is willing to compete and is willing to put the effort and have the faith to do unthinkable things, which in a way is what you need in the Champions League. Now, as I was saying, Barcelona is missing a lot of people through injuries. They lost Jules Cunde and Alejandro Balde in that Athletico game. They are not going to be able to feature in the whole tie against Newcastle, and Frankie Le Young is out as well. So Flick has a lot of a bit of a jigsaw in there and a bit of pieces like to shuffle. But I think that Basa has the mood and has the confidence and the courage to believe that they can improve in the next week, in the coming months plus, they have La Minja Mal in the best goal scoring form of his career, basically, which I guess that it helps to make life easier if you have La Minja Mal in the end day. I mean, his career has not been that long so far, but it is pretty excellent form. He scored the only goal of their one-year win at Athletic at the weekend. That's taken him to 14 now for the season in the league, 19 in all competitions. It also means that he has scored 50 goals in professional matches at the age of 18 years and 237 days. Perspective time, Messi reached 50 goals at 20 years and 315 days, and Cristiano didn't get there until 21 years and 297 days. Wow. Yeah, yeah, just mad to see. I think in the last 7 La Liga games he has 8 goal involvements, which are 7 goalting one assist. And his performance in the weekend, I mean, I've got a lot of like, I've written a lot of articles about La Minja Mal comparing with Lionel Messi. I'm not a big fan of comparing him with the figure of Messi, but he reminded me a bit of because he had one of these performances that he was not at the top of his game, but at some point in the second half when he got the ball to score that goal, you get the feeling that he said, right, I'm going to decide this. I have not had the greatest game of my life, or I'm going to take the ball here, boom, cut inside and ball to the top bins. And that's what he did. And this capacity of being just the guy to decide games, yeah, just astonishing to see in a 19 year old, when you ask people at the club, people like senior sources at Barcelona, they tell you, look, we don't know what La Minja Mal is going to become, but at this age, Lionel Messi was not asked to do what La Minja Mal is asked to do right now, because when Messi was 18, people were looking at Teco and Ronaldinho at Samuelito and Messi could afford to have a bad game. Now La Minja Mal is the go-to guy and when Barcelona needs to win a game, they just look at him. So he's dealing with that, and he's coping with that quite well. But that is a concern, I imagine. Messi had a little bit more of a chance to build up to his extraordinary career, so much pressure has already been put on La Minja Mal. The big change, meanwhile, at Barcelona, since the turn of the year, is the fact that they are no longer shipping goals in such industrial quantities, eight clean sheets, since 2026 began, they kept clean sheet the second leg against that, let it go, and did again, this weekend. Has Hansi Flick taken into account some of those player meetings that were urgently I think that this plays a part on it, because as we said, this cost in this podcast like players over the past month, they shared a bit, they're concerned in certain moments just to practice this sort of approach. At the same time, we still have to see that BASA are able to translate this into the Champions League, because it is the Champions League where they have their worst record in terms of considering goals, and Newcastle is going to be a good test for that, and there was a feeling in the squad as well that what happens again at Lithico de Madrid needed to be a learning for the Champions League, because if we look at last season all the knockouts of the Champions League Barcelona can see it a lot of goals, they were Borussia Dortmund in the return, like they struggled in there with Inter Milan, we know how the story went, so they knew that they have to improve this season in the Champions League in that regard, and Newcastle is going to be a good test for that, like the bad thing for them is that they, as I mentioned, they have a lot of injuries in the bad line, and let's see who plays in there, but Flick is not going to have the best set up possible just to try to defend Newcastle's quick counters. Also, in action against the Premier League side this week, I'd like to go to Madrid, who will be facing Tottenham Hotspur, the same Tottenham Hotspur side that calls B Dortmund, and on track Frankfurt in the competition this season that finished fourth indeed in the Champions League group phase, so there must be quite a concerned ball about them. I mean, I don't know how concerned they are, but if Tottenham want to take that as a sort of boost to their morale, basically Simone rotated all his squad on the weekend focusing for the Champions League, in a way it is because I let it go in Madrid, I'm not going to say given up, but they know that their chances in La Liga are just nonexistent and that they have to focus in to make the top four, and they have to concentrate really on the Champions League and the Copa del Rey. They have the job done in the Copa del Rey, they are in the final ball in the Champions League. Yeah, basically they have to save all their best players, and that's what they did on the weekend. It was enough for them to be real so to that, which is always good. And now let's say, I think in Spain everyone sees Atlético's favorites in this side, despite not having the second leg at home, but the form that Tottenham has been in. There's also, there's also like the feeling that the Premier League is above La Liga at all levels, and that what happens in the domestic competition in England might not be translating in Europe because the Premier League is just above every other competition, and they might still be competitive at the European stage. But if they are honest, they feel that they really have a chance, and that's why Simone gave a rise to all these big players. Right, the site of Crystal Palace putting three passpers in the Spaces seven minutes will have buoyed them around no end. They beat Sociedad this weekend, Atlético's three two. That's who they'll be facing in the Coppa del Rey final, so that'll be another comfort for them. Alexander Solos, Tekki is gold, tally to 11 golds in 17 matches, since the turn of the year he's banging for. Absolutely, he's been the versus striker of Atlético in the Madrid decision. I would say that, yeah, if you ask like some of the Atlético fans they would prefer to have Sorlos in front, and then like Julian Albert in the season, or if you ask for more of a go to man, they would say that Sorlos has been the most reliable character in there. A boost for them is that Antoine Griezmann is expected to stay until the end of the season as well, which where there were some rumours that he could be living to Orlando mid season, but after the Coppa del Rey success they are in the final, he had an amazing performance at the Camino, and he might be an important piece for Atlético de Madrid in this last month of the season because his experience, he's a wafer on the pitch, he's just, yeah, giving Atlético an extra, and I expect him to play like, I don't know if he's going to start against Tottenham, but I expect him to play an important role in this tie-up as well. So, as a person who's watched a lot of Tottenham, maybe too much Tottenham, any chance for them to use the evening? No, no, no, no, not at all. Wow, really. But I was, I strove pulled some of my friends ahead of this because we're kind of mixed, my Tottenham supporting friends, I should say, with sort of mixes to whether this game or this tie needs to be chucked in a favor of rejuvenating Premier League form, whether it can be used to generate a little bit of momentum, self-belief, or the third option was they take an absolute hiding with a full strength team and it diminishes whatever little momentum and self-belief there is actually left in that Tottenham team. So, there isn't really a, I haven't found anyone yet who believes that Tottenham will win either game or progress through. And I think it's probably best that they don't because they, all the eggs need to go in the Premier League survival basket, Jimbo, I think. Very good. We'll see what happens on Tuesday night to night, possibly for you listener. The other Champions League games coming up Tuesday are Galatasaray Liverpool. Galatasaray has previously beat Liverpool back in the league phase. James is athletic and a buying clash. And of course, that Newcastle Barcelona game Wednesday brings by a Liverpool's against Arsenal, Bodu Glimpt against Sporting, that Real Madrid man city affair, and Paris Saint-Germain against Chelsea. So many treats in there next up. Let's find out about brave Atlanta's brave prospects against Bayern Munich. This is the Totally Football Show, part of the Athletic FC podcast network. The Athletic is the only place you can read articles by Daniel Taylor, Amy Lawrence, Phil Hay, James PS, Oli K, and the very best football writers around. James Allcarsle, heading back to Italy, you were there last week. James, you had that lovely sit-down with the Fikata Mori of Milan in Milan, and that's available on all our usual platforms. Where did you record that, James? It was a pastry shop near where Fikata Mori lives in Milan, which, yeah, it wasn't the most traditional millenessy place, you know, it was sort of a quite a new pastry shop in a glass building. So you could be forgiven for thinking you were anywhere in the world, let alone Milan, but he's very much at home in that neighbourhood, in that city, James. Yeah, that very much came across as well, lovely stuff. Anyway, back you go to the peninsula, this, well, actually, in a short time to catch up with Atalanta and their game with Bayern Munich. A lot's to talk about from city ads, self this week with Milan Derby, and the rise of Como continuing, and there is other things too, but let's begin with Bayern's visit to the GUIS stadium. Atalanta, whose form, ever since Paladine at one February's manager of the month, fallen off dramatically, have they maybe been keeping themselves for this big game? Well, remember they had to lift themselves for that second leg against Dortmund as well, where I think a lot of people saw their first leg defeat in the context of the defeats that Inter had suffered and the events had suffered. And Atalanta were the only ones to pull a rabbit out of the hat and still be in the competition. In fairness to Paladine, they are playing across three fronts. In that lateral moment of the week, their foe in the Coppitalia semi-final first was Atalanta. So Atalanta, the only team involved in three fronts so far, their squad depth which is considerable has been kind of running a little bit thin since the start of the year. You know, when they let Adam Ola-Lukman go to Ataleta-Kamadrid, they replaced him with Jakama-Raspodori. Raspodori has been out injured. Edison's been out injured. Sharda-Kethala has been out injured. I think if they were to get those players back, they would perhaps be in better condition going into this game. I think they're quite realistic against Bayern. We've heard from Seb throughout the season that Bayern have gone a long way to becoming more of a complete team than they were last year under Vincent Company in his second season. They are considered Champions League favourites along with Arsenal. But I think Atalanta, this is a team that's got quite a lot of European experience over the last eight years. They've knocked out teams that you wouldn't expect, like Jürgen Kopp's Liverpool in the Europa League. So they go into this with kind of clear eyes, full heart, can't lose, mentality, James. Very, very nice. Some of those unexpected victories are two big German names. British Adortment, as you mentioned, in the playoff with that remarkable comeback. And of course, by Levykus and in that Europa League final, the only team to manage to beat Javier Lanzo's side in that whole extraordinary campaign. How much fear does the name Atalanta bring in Germany, so? Not any to Bayern. I think they've been at pains to be very respectful. Alex Palovich was speaking about the prospect of playing them, was full of admiration for what they've been picking in Europe. But Bayern are Bayern, and they're extremely strong. The one reservation they have is Man on Noir won't make this trip. He suffered a third thundery, musselta of the season, which is kind of start that conversation about his longevity again. Harry Kane didn't play the weekend, but that was just precaution. He'll be back and he'll be fit. So saving Davis and Noir, Alfonso Davis, still a couple of weeks away, they feel in pretty good shape and they're playing pretty well. I mean, they come into this, offer a pretty healthy, battering delivered to Brissi Munch and Gladbach on Friday night. So they're looking good shape and I think they're ready to go. So I think there's any trepidation. It's different for Bayern. Okay. Back to back victories against Borussia's after beating Dortmund in the classic for one, is he say against Gladbach at the weekend? So Kane who didn't play a calfstrain was the reason, but that was just precautionary said. We're sure of that. I think more of a knock than like an impact injury, Jimbo, rather than a strain of any kind, certainly when Max Ebbel spoke last week and when there's a company spoke, there was no suggestion that Kane was going to miss the Atlanta game. So barring something on for scene, he'll be, he'll be ready to go over in Etlun and cheers tonight. Four goals anyway from Louis D.S., Juman Moussiala, Conrad Lymer and Nicholas Jackson for Bayern as they continue their march towards the German title. There you go. Then that's Atalanta's clash with Bayern Atalanta, the underdogs, but we've seen them laugh in the face of those odds before will it happen again this time. Meanwhile, James, Sunday night down the road at San Ciro, we had the Milan derby and what a Milan derby it was. A pivotal one really, James, because I think it decided whether we're going to have a title race or not between now and the end of the season. If Inter were to won that game, they would have been 13 points clear and I think already people, including myself, were prognosticating that this was going to be a procession for Inter and instead Milan won one nil as they often do this season and the gap is now down to seven points. Inter have got quite a tough march, essentially play all of the big teams after Milan and after the event. You can see that even though, for example, this was their first defeat in 15 league games, since the last derby in November, certainly since being eliminated by Boulder from the Champions League, sort of dark clouds have formed over Inter where they've got very defensive, like I was on last week's pod and they seem a little bit rattled by it and I'm not sure that's really a good place for them to be right now, particularly going into this run of games that they've got. Christian Kiwi became the first Inter coach in 50 years to lose his first two Milan derbies and even though he's done a good job in the round and could win a double, league and cup double this season, they have lost most of the big games, they're out of the Champions League and so that has left quite a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths but credit for Milan for giving us a title race and credit to Purvis Estupinjan, the wingback that they signed from Brighton in the summer, who's had a really up and down season. He got sent off quite early on in his Milan career against Napoli, lost his place to a kind of no-name youngster called Davide Batisagi. Batisagi got injured at the end of last week's game against Cremonaise, last minute, 89th minute. Estupinjan comes on, gives the ball to Modrich, Modrich puts the ball in and Milan scores and then goes on to win that game, 2-0 and Estupinjan got the only goal of this game with quite an emphatic strike in the brilliant finish. Brilliant finish. Which came very quickly after it looked like into we're going to take the lead, James, because I think Mike Mignon made a save at the other end from Henrik Mikatayan and everyone was sort of distracted by that talking about that how into and top and didn't realise that, oh look Estupinjan's the wrong guy, oh Milan, oh no. Right, well, gorgeous pass from Moffafana to set him up. No lot out of Martinez wants to give for the editor. When's he due back? I think they're being quite cautious. I mean, he was on the bench, but not part of the squad, because he's a leader. But I think this is one of the stories really of into his last few weeks. He got injured in the first leg against Bodo Glimpt in the Arctic Circle and hasn't featured since. Inter have coped pretty well this season with injuries, but now that we're in March, the absences of Chalinolu, who didn't play in this game, Lautaro and Marcus Turan. So for the first time into we're playing with Francesco Pio Esposito and Anjuan Boni up front. And those guys have made good cameos and there's been plenty of height particularly around this Esposito, but they never played together before and Milan's defence were very aggressive in how they went about marking those two players. So those absences have hurt Inter, and I think that is a necessary part of context when looking at this game. But Milan now, I mean, back in 1999, James, when you were in Italy, opening Gazette de la Sports in Piazza's, they famously came back from seven points behind with seven games to go. So fewer, because there were ten games to go, to overhaul Lazio and win the league. So can they do it? I don't know, but it's going to be fun finding out. And the top four race behind them looks pretty exciting too. Milan currently is second place, seven points off the top as you say. Third place Napoli winning this weekend. There are 11 points themselves off Inter and in their two one victory against Turina, they had Lukaku and De Bruyne are finally sharing a pitch in a league match. First time that's ever happened. Wow, Como and now fourth, they won two on a calorie. That's their third straight victory. They move past Roma on gold difference after the Gelatozzi lost a way at Genoa against, of course, their former hero, but always hero. Danieli De Rozzi, you they are sixth and they beat Pisa four nil in a very dominant second half performance. That Lukaku and De Bruyne are reunion James, emotional. Yeah, it was. I mean, Lukaku has been making cameos since the middle of January, but De Bruyne had not been seen since he got injured against Inter, I think, back in October. He basically left Italy to concentrate on his rehab, I think in Belgium, and then he was sort of paparapsied outside of Naples' airport at the beginning of last week, and everyone was like, right, he's finally back, but there's no expectation that he would play. And yet Como said, his rehab really well, watched him in training, looked like he'd never been away, same with Frank Zambian Gisa, Angisa who's been such a critical player in both of their league championships. Angisa has been injured since I think December. So to have all of those guys back is really important for Napoli. And I must say, I'm super impressed with what Conte has done this year, you know, as much as they are third. I mean, there were only a point behind me going into the Debbie De La Madonna, really putting pressure on me, Lance, sort of, win that game. And considering all of the injuries, and I saw Seb Mouth wow when you said Lukaku and De Bruyne had not played at all this season together, to do what he's done, keep this team competitive, and as he keeps reminding us, win a super cup, is quite a fine job on the whole from Mr. Conte. Although a lot of people would throw in a little asterisk about their European form, as is so often the case with Conte outfits. Yeah, but as I've said, and I think some of that's fair James, but I think it also needs to be seen in the context of all of these injuries, which they have had, I think maybe 30 or 35 separate injuries this season. And for the new signings, to not play together, to be injured, or in the cases of Lorenzo Luca, Noah Lang, be kind of let go in January, I think he's done tremendous. I mean, even looking at the team that beat Torino at the weekend, Elif Elmas and Billy Gilmore in midfield, Vergada, and this new kid, Alison Santos, who they signed in January, who looks really good off Rasmus Hoyland, John Jezuson Miguel Gutierrez in defence with Oliveira. I mean, if you look at that, I know Conte has been provocative and saying, if you look at this team, it would be like, you know, people would be saying they'd finish eighth, but I think if you do look at that team, you are saying, hang on a minute, that's not a team that should be very close to second, as they have been in city after pretty much all of this season. Fair enough, fair enough. Other bits of Italian news, there's a big derby coming up in the Europa League on Thursday, as Bologna, who lost this weekend, take on Roma, who lost this weekend. The Copri Italia semi-finals are looking finally poised. As you mentioned, Latia had a two to draw with Atalanta and their first leg. The other one was Komonil Internil last Tuesday. Second leg's not until late April. And in the meantime, here's a question from KCH 1982, who posted this during our YouTube live stream Sunday night, so can we get an update on Sam Doria? Over to you, James. Well, I wasn't following what Sam did at the weekend, but I suspect they lost, because I saw they lost three now to Frottinoni, yeah. And to be fair, Frottinoni has been going great guns, as they say, in Sidia B this season. But I did see Sam's executive, and this may have changed by the time this goes out. He was like, well, we're going to have to consider changing the coach and the coaching staff on the back of that defeat. For the second time? Watch this space. Yeah, I mean, just it's become an extremely volatile club with quite an unclear ownership situation between sort of London-based Italians, and I think maybe some Singaporeans. Yeah, they are in 16th place, Sam. They haven't won in the last four games. They've lost three of them. So when they went down a couple of years ago, they had a wage bill that was, you know, sort of, I think, along with Padmas, maybe the highest in Sidia B, and instead, that's got them nowhere. In fact, they've just plunged even further. So, worrying. But it just goes to show how, you know, we talk about the championship being a difficulty to go out of Spetsia, for example, last year in the playoffs with PO Esposito. Spetsia 18th in Sidia B. Pescada, who signed Lorenzo in Simea, brought in Simea back, who scored the other day, they are bottom, and Badi, who are owned by the Delerentesys, who owned Napoli on 19th. So it's a, yeah, tough place to get, well, not only promoted, but tough place to stay in that Sidia B. Now, what the way things had been, they would be pretty content to stay in the second division, because for a long time, they were in the relegation places. Fantastic stuff. Many thanks for that, James. You're heading off to Bergamo, we next are going to head to Liga. Tom, Paris Antiband, facing Chelsea again. They met last summer with the club woke up final. Back then, PSG were in what seemed like unstoppable form. That's not the case this time, though. It's not no, beaten again in Liga. Now, that's two defeats in their last four league games, this time by Monaco, who they, of course, got the better of, or be it in very unconvincing fashion in the Champions League playoff round. This game taking place on Friday night to give PSG a bit more time to prepare for the first leg against Chelsea. As we've said before, a lot of the talk around PSG is this season has been well. At some point, surely things are going to click and we're going to rediscover the PSG of last season. I think the feeling now is that that might not happen. The keeps right up of the defeat against Monaco basically said, we need to forget this idea that PSG are magically going to turn back into the team that they were this time last year. They look absolutely knackered. They look psychologically worn out as well. And they just keep making the kind of mistakes that they didn't make last season. And the physical fatigue, which as we've said before, is a consequence of the very long season. They had last season culminating, of course, in the defeat by Chelsea in the club World Cup final. It means that they can't do the all-pitch press that was their real trademark last season. And you see it when you're watching them. There's a desire to play the same kind of football, but the players just don't seem capable of it. On top of that, you've got all the injury issues. Usman Dembele made his comeback from injury as a second half substitute against Monaco on Friday night, came on for the last half an hour, looked relatively bright and brought a bit of impetus to PSG's play. But is he going to be fit enough to start in the first leg against Chelsea? Who knows? Fabian Ruiz wasn't involved. Jean Nevers wasn't involved. I think Nevers might be able to feature Ruiz, probably not. And you've got players out of form everywhere you look. And all three of Monaco's goals basically came from PSG Aritz, the first one, Warren Zayem, who is one of the very few players at PSG who has been in good form this season, has been playing a lot and a lot more than last season because of all the absentees in midfield. Winds the ball back on the PSG byline on the left hand side and then sets off on this kind of quite misguided dribble through the middle of his own penalty area, ends up losing the ball, and Magnus Akliu, who's hit form for Monaco in recent weeks, slams home. Second goal scored by Alexander Golovin comes after Vitini, tries to clear a ball on the edge of the box and succeeds only in poking it straight into Golovin's path. And then the third goal, which Bullyton scored late on, came after Lee Kang in overrun the ball in a dangerous area. I think the feeling in France now is that PSG are not suddenly going to become the team that they were last season. They are going to have to grind their way through these games and try and grind their way back to some kind of form because they just look physically incapable of playing the kind of football that we got used to seeing from them last season. Four defeats in the league. Since the turn of the year, also the two draws in the Champions League, one against Newcastle and the one in the playoff with Monaco. Beyond their Champions League prospects against Chelsea, how confident can they be of retaining the Lee Kang title, only one point now between them and longs again? And this is an additional fact that, I mean, last season, one of the reasons that they were able to play with such remarkable energy and such freshness in the Champions League, particularly in a knockout phase, was that Lewis and Rika was able to rotate quite a lot in the league and he rotated quite extravagantly the last season. I mean, there were periods where Dan Ballet just wasn't starting any Lee Kang matches so that he could be fresh for the Champions League and they could afford to do that last season because they had a ten point lead in Lee Kang going into the second half of the season. That is not the case this season. Longs just will not quit. Longs will not lead, you know, leave them alone. We thought that the Longs challenge was fading because they'd gone two games without a win, lost at home to Monaco, drew away its task board, PSG had opened out this little four point lead and you thought, okay, that's probably going to be that. But now all of the sudden Longs are right back in there, one point behind, very convincing winners at home to match and he match are absolutely terrible, rock bottom heading towards lead at frightening speeds. But, you know, Longs are playing with no pressure whatsoever, whereas PSG just looked like they have the way of the world on their shoulders. We're now only three weekends away from that big clash between Longs and PSG, which I think everyone who follows French football is hoping is going to have something riding on it. PSG as the Longs coach has been comparing Longs title challenge to the Tour de France and he was asked, you know, after the win against Metz, you know, how he felt about the title race. He said, oh no, we're still in the Alps. There are still some big stages, you know, still to get through, you know, before we can start thinking about being on the Sean Zalise, but yeah, I mean, I think if they, if they carry on playing the way they are, there is going to be something riding on that game against PSG and again, just as we, you know, we kind of thought that, you know, there's this, there's so many natural assumptions at play in football. You always think this bigger, stronger, richer club are going to come good at some point that the little plucky underdog are going to, are going to fall by the wayside, starting to realise that maybe PSG aren't quite as good as they were last season and actually starting to realise that perhaps lawns really could go on and do this, which would be, I mean, incredible. And still in the, the, the Coupe de France having come through this semi-final against Leon as we. Incredible. Just on the subject of Chelsea, is that much of a grudge match? Is there a lot of needles still after last summer's clash? I think there will be a bit of needle, particularly when you think of the circumstances of that game, in that, you know, PSG were absolutely flying. They'd beaten both Madrid clubs 4-0 in the club World Cup, they beat Bayern Munich, they looked unstoppable, and suddenly Chelsea just picked them apart. And I think, I think it was a combination of, of Enzo Moresca, very shrewdly, pinpointing tactical weaknesses in PSG's setup that other clubs hadn't identified, and also PSG looking a little bit knackered. And as we probably recall, that, you know, the, the scenes that greeted the final whistle were pretty unedifying from a PSG perspective, lots of pushing and shoving and effing and jeffing, Lewis Enrique slapping JAPADRO. So those things weren't I've been forgotten. And there have been, you know, previous meetings between these teams in the Champions League. I mean, going back a little bit now, but in the early years of the QSI era at PSG, they came up against Chelsea a few times. I remember covering a game at, at Stanford Bridge, where Denver Bar scored late on to send Chelsea through on away goals. There was another game at Stanford Bridge, where I think Tiago Silver scored a late had a, that, that maybe sent PSG through or, you know, put them in a good position. So, you know, they do have a bit of history. So I think that, yeah, I think there probably will be a little bit in needle. Excellent. Love to see it. Back in Ligue 1, meanwhile, Ren picked up their fourth win in a row since ditching Habib Bay, four nil against Nice. Habib Bay, meanwhile, enjoyed another victory with his new side, Marseille, who've moved up into third spot, because Leon only drew with Paris FC, and Marseille beat to lose the very same team who they played last week in the Cup and got beaten by. They secured their revenge over thanks to a goal from Mason Greenwood. Anything you want to say about those games, Tom? Yeah, I mean, Habib Bay has been on a rollercoaster ride already as OM coach, as you would expect, loses way at best in his first game. Oh, terrible start. Beats Leon, three, two, stoppage time winner in his second game, first front, the ball is on. Oh, incredible. Bays, he's brought the club together. He's, he's going to take us back, knocked out of the coop, the France by to lose with PSG having already fallen by the wayside. This is terrible. The Marseille fans who went to to lose on Saturday night had a banner in the stands that just said, Vousette de merva, you are sh**, plural, which probably doesn't require translation, but they get a win. And then because Leon dropped points, they're now backing thirds or be it only on goal different. So, I mean, yeah, ridiculous ups and downs at Marseille has ever, Leon extremely fortunate not to lose at home to Paris FC last night. On to Ancombo Ahé, who had won his first game as Paris FC coach sees his side go one-nil up, Marshall Menetzi, Wolverhampton Wanderer's Lonee, and then Leon get the most generous penalty deep into stoppage time for a real kind of legal handball, the kind of thing that isn't punished by a penalty in the Premier League, but always, always is in, in legal. Leon had started with Hendrick, who's formed a dipped a little bit of late, and Corinth and Touliso on the bench. Hendrick came on and did next to nothing. Touliso came on was very good. He scores the penalty, so Leon rescue the draw, but yeah, find themselves down in fourth, and the fact that Monaco have turned a corner, that Ren have turned a corner, means that that battle for Chambers equalification is getting more and more interesting by the week. Excellent. A word on Leo, Tom, who face Aston Villa in the Europa League? Yeah, their form has been better of late. They're really struggling to score goals. They had no Olivier Giroux at the weekend, because he was poorly, but I think he's probably going to be all right for that game on Thursday. They scored a beautiful goal, Matthias Fernandez Pardo, young Belgian slash Spanish centre-forward, who hasn't actually chosen which country he's going to play for yet, much to the the consternation of both Belgian and Spanish football federations. Chest down a long bore from Nabil Benta-Leb, lobs it over the goalkeeper, but then Leon equalise with one of the goals of the season, young Camarunian midfielder Arthur Avon-Ebon. Leon have a late free kick, goes into the box, is headed clear. Ebon runs up to the ball, and is almost so hasty to get a shot off that he gets too close to it, realises that, and as the ball bounces, it then has to back off like three or four paces. It's the first time shot outside the right foot, into the top left-hand corner, so long on rescue, a draw, Leo a pegged back. So yeah, they have been looking better, but they are really struggling in front of goal. Okay, we'll see how they get on on Thursday night. Seb, you're up next with what's going on in the Bundesliga, and also by Liverpool's earn. You're listening to the totally football show with James Richards and now with you four times a week. Keep up to date with us on Insta and enjoy us in glorious technicolor on YouTube at the Totally Show. Seb, you told us all about Bayern's 4-1 victory over Gladbach back on Friday. That's keeps them 11 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga, Dortmund, and third place Hoffenheim also winning this weekend. Stuttgart's 2-2 draw with minds though means that I'll be lipstick of drawing level on points with them in the hunt for the top four. Down the bottom, meanwhile, thanks looking very, very spicy indeed. Wolfsburg and Heidenheim, the bottom two both lost this weekend. Wolfsburg then sacking their manager Daniel Bauer. They, that pair in our four points from even making a relegation playoff. But the next group above them, you've got five teams separated by only one point. Only one point. Some powerly, cone, mines, Bremen, and Gladbach with some powerly currently in that relegation place. Is that where the big interest is, you think Seb? Certainly is interesting. Let's start at Wolfsburg because on Sunday morning, you mentioned the coaching sacking. Peter Christensen, the sporting director, was also dismissed Sunday morning. That had been long speculated because Christensen had taken a lot of criticism for squad building. Some people saying there were too many Danish players at Wolfsburg. There were too many cleats. There wasn't enough team spirit. Tricky old plays because it's a small town, really Wolfsburg. The club doesn't attract a lot of scrutiny. Therefore, you know, players that go there tend to be on their way somewhere else. It's a little bit of a wastation. And so, you know, when things go wrong, they can go wrong pretty quickly. Head of the game against Hamburg on Saturday, there was, there was a big push, like there was an open training session. A lot of fans turned up to show their support. Some of the video from that made its way onto social media. When the game actually started though, there was a banner hanging in the home end, which said, basically, this is your last chance to show some fight. It's quite menacing. Wolfsburg did. They were, they were, they were, they were pretty physical and pretty intense, but almost to the point of it being too much. A little bit frenzied. They took the lead, scored a penalty. Chrissi and Ericsson converting it. But then they conceded two, two basically identical penalties to Luke of Uskovich. It was fouled twice in the penalty box. He scored one, as you know, it did pay. It's called the other. Two, one, half, half, half, full time. An outful time. The locals having none of it. There were flares, dropped onto the pitch from behind the goal. Basically, every relegation day cliche you can think of was there. There were, there was black smoke coming from the home end, steward to kind of form the line between the players and the fans to protect them. Then the next day, the two sackings, detaching coached the team between 2012 and 2016 took them previously to the Champions League and to a DFB Pokal. Also coached a young Kevin De Broder to his move to Manchester City. Basically, he's come back. Good appointment. Heckings very nonsense. He'll restore a little bit of a whatever feel good factor is available to Volkswagen this situation. But Jim Boat, this is a team from the Ok middle class who have the backing of Volkswagen, the Volkswagen, the financial backing of Volkswagen. They have their, their pensioners and as a result, an exemption from the 50 plus one rule, for them to be where they are with that group of players and that amount of resources is a little short of a disgrace. They play hide and hide on Saturday, hide and hide who are kind of doomed, but who come from completely on their end of the food chain. Very few resources, not a surprise that they are where they are, but that is an awkward place to play. If they lose, it's kind of getting close to the wider bunds league of time for Volkswagen, which would be dramatic under performance. So that's, that's Volkswagen. Everybody else is kind of moving the right direction, save Cologne, who we've covered with their Stadion, Ashbrecker, controversy. Some power, you've got a pretty decent draw against the Iron Track Frankfurt. Mine's got a draw too. I mentioned that. Glad back, let's see. They, bad back, we've got a really interesting situation brewing because you mentioned their defeat to Bayern, but it also involved a red card for their club captain, Rocco Wrights. It was a last man, clear denial of a goal score, opportunity foul, so it was a red card. Wrights in the background, there's been this story going on that Wrights, who grew up a glad back fan, was actually, I've interviewed him and he told me that he was registered as a club member the day he was born by one of his father's friends. So he'd been alive for about four hours by the time that he was, he'd been a registered club member. Anyway, there's been a story about Wrights being of interest to Abbey Leibsick, who, if you're a British invention, Glad back fan, traditional ring, big club, Abbey Leibsick, you kind of, everything that you stand against. And there's stories all over the German media this weekend that Wrights has agreed to move to Leibsick in the summer, pending an agreement between the two clubs. I have not verified that yet. That's just a report that's going out there, but needless to say, it kind of doesn't matter because Gladback, who are not quite circling the drain, but could potentially be so in a couple of weeks' time should results go against them. And they're capped in and they're kind of there, the homegrown icon, they're sort of one of their great hopes, really potentially Leibsick bound. It's pretty provocative as a story. They are going to face some power liat home on Friday night in a game that they can ill afford to lose, of course. Wrights naturally suspended for that, but we'll see what kind of reception he gets in two weeks' time. Let's look about by Levacuson who are up in sixth place, only three points of the Champions League positions, a three-three draw for them at Fryberg. This weekend, after a midweek went over Hamburg themselves, with Alexander Gromaldos scoring an absolute will-deaver free kick. That's not five direct free kicks that he's scored this season. By Levacuson this week, taking on a team who appreciate a set piece themselves, Arsenal, you were pretty down on their chances when we spoke about this last week's set. Are you still feeling that it's just a question of getting a bit of experience and then move on to next season? Yeah, it's not so much being down. I think it's just more you can afford to be going there, learn something, have a go. The Gromaldos things interesting, Gromaldos isn't is inhabiting what we'll call the Janinio territory at the moment when he takes free kicks in that position. He's got that knuckleball technique down as well as anybody I've ever seen. Almost the point when he has the ball in that position, you kind of expect him to score. That's something for Arsenal to watch out for. Don't give free kicks away 25 yards from goal. The other player who had a really good week, not just on the weekend, but in that hamburger game you mentioned, Christian Caffani, the young forward who Paul know because he signed from Alba Chetty in the summer. Turned up, it was pretty raw. You can see the talent and you can see, hey, one day this guy's going to pull it all together and there's going to be a real player there, a great technique, skillful, smart, quick. He's pretty big as well. He's six foot two. He's got a pair of very different but equally classy goals. Last week, goals four and five of his Bundesliga season, he's growing into a real talent and he's one of those players I think who even against a side of Arsenal's caliber, so well organised, defensively, so strong. He's unpredictable in a way that I think could potentially cause them harm. The one other issue is that I think Arsenal, Ernest Poccu, who we've spoken about before on the total Europe, is being a great hope for Dutch football. He's going to be playing as a right wingback because of injuries in the side and so I'm also not going to have to be a bit careful down there left because Poccu is as quick as any player in the Bundesliga really, a real menace. So these young slightly cultish players, I think they can do a bit of damage. I think they'll also learn a lot about playing against the caliber player that Arsenal have in each of those respective positions. So let's see, but there's interest there. Even if we don't hold out a great hope for Levy Cuisin, they're very much worth watching. One other player, Ibi Mazza, the Algerian playmaker, fabulous footballer in the making. He was signing the sum from her to BSC and it's why the Bundesliga really classy old-fashioned number 10 with a little bit of a number 8 vibe in there as well because he's quite mobile, lovely playmaker. So watch out for him, whether Arsenal give him the opportunity to really play, I don't know, but he's someone that's certainly when the World Cup comes around, people are going to want to know. Okay, we've all got Patrick Ship as a big target man as well. Can they defend a corner by Levy Cuisin? No, this is the crux of my fear, Jimbo, because if there is an issue, or if there are issues that Levy Cuisin have been dogged by all season, it is kind of defensive basics, picking up runners between full backs and center backs, dealing with crosses. These are not good things to be carrying into a game against Arsenal, and they've had problems in defense all year. They've had problems that I mean, I'm flacking his out injured so they've replaced the goalkeeper. It's not an area of strength. I don't want to throw anyone on the bus, but it's a fear for them a little bit of those set pieces. So let's see, it could be quite a long evening if it doesn't go well in that area. Okay, Arsenal who did finish top of the Champions League league phase, however, only just got past league one Mansfield Town this weekend, and I was carrying a whole raft of injuries, Califurian trosside going off in that Mansfield Town game. So by no means a full strength Arsenal team will be taking on Levy Cuisin. So if anything else from the world of the Bundesliga before we wrap up this week? Yeah, Paul Finn-Darman. So Augsburg went to Abbey Leipzig the weekend and lost 2-1, played pretty well, held onto a point until their 91st minute, which point goalkeeper Darmann conceded an own goal that was just nothing he could have done about it. It was just terribly, terribly unlucky. So that was 91st minute. By 94th minute, he was kind of playing as an emergency forward in pursuit of a point, and he was part of attack that forced a corner. Corner comes in, flicked at the near post, there's Darmann at the back post, hurls himself at it with a brilliant, old-school kind of nile, quenished diving header, and you just think, for a split second, that's in the top corner. It's about foot wide, about foot wide, from what would have been one of the best finishes I've seen from a goalkeeper. Kind of, I can't remember his name, but Benfica Esk, that guy. Trubin? Yes. Thank you, Tom. Thank you, Tom Williams. Exactly. So Paul Finn-Darman, he has now the easiest season. He had a good game at the weekend. He could have had a spectacular one, but for a slight miscue off the forehead. All right. What's been a spectacular run up from you, Seb Stafford-Blood? Loads look forward to this midweek with those Bundesliga sides and Paris Saint-Germain and three Spanish sides too. Of course, we'll be back on Wednesday morning and Thursday morning to round up the previous night's action in that competition. I will get together next week for another round up of where things stand in the league as well. For now, it's many, many thanks to James Horncastle, Seb Tompol, to Lucy and special guest new producer, Javi, and you, listener, before to speaking to you again soon for now from all of us here. It's goodbye. You've been listening to the Totally Football Show part of the Athletic FC podcast network. For other great podcasts, just like this one, including the Athletic FC and our dedicated club podcasts, search for the Athletic in all the usual places. We're also at the totally show on Insta and at the Totally Show on YouTube. The Totally Football Show is an Athletic media company production. The Athletic FC
