About this episode

The episode discusses the narratives surrounding the Premier League and provides summaries of the Champions League Round of 16 second leg matches.

Why the "Premier League disaster" narrative doesn't really make sense, plus some capsule summaries of the eight matches and why there was not that much to learn from the second legs. City-Real and Chelsea-PSG matches were over too early, Liverpool and Arsenal held serve at home, Bayern continued walking, why would anyone have expected more than this from Tottenham, and Barcelona-Newcastle was a fascinating watch with more to discuss but not necessarily representative of any larger dynamics.&n...

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike Goodman, Michael Caley

Topics covered

• Champions League
• soccer analysis
• match summaries
• Premier League
• European football

Keywords

• Champions League
• Premier League disaster
• match analysis
• soccer commentary
• European football

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Premier League, City, Real, Chelsea, PSG, Liverpool, Arsenal, Bayern, Tottenham, Barcelona

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