Euro Leagues: Champions League final preview
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What is the setting for the Champions League final preview?
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Why are PSG considered favorites against Arsenal?
Hinaus ja tiepalvelut. Muistatko, kun vielä oli puhelinluetteloita? Muistan.
What makes Arsenal the biggest team without a Champions League title?
Siit on kyllä aikaa. Muistatko, koska tää talo on viimeks maalattu? Muistan. Ei ikinä.
Which manager would be more entertaining to have dinner with?
Tää on tiilitalo haloo. Tiesithän, että tiilitalonkin voi maalata, joten päivitä omasi tähän päivään Tikkurilan Kivitex Brickhouse Paint tiilitalo maalilla. Tikkurila.fi.
On the Football Daily Podcast, the EuroLeagues with Steve Crossman. So tonight, then, with your first taste of the Champions League weekend, it's a EuroLeague Champions League special. You'll get the broad brushstrokes of the thoughts of the guys and then we'll be inside the mind of both Luis Enrique and also Mikel Arteta. We're also going to speak to the man who launched the careers of Piero Hincapié and William Pacho, the Ecuadorian teammates who will be on opposite sides of Arsenal tonight. against Paris Saint-Germain with us in person, live at a little restaurant in Budapest. We've got Guillaume Balaguet and we've got ESPN's Julien Leron. Hello, you two. Good evening. Hello, guys. Now, before we do anything else, I just need you to close your eyes as I paint you a picture.
And this picture is what I call what we could have won. Imagine a boat on the Danube.
What insights does Jesus Casas provide about Luis Enrique?
We've got beautiful panoramic views all around us and there is soft music playing in the background. That is where we were meant to be. Instead, you get the sirens because the boat booked a heavy metal band on the same night as us, so we couldn't go. And?
This is great.
We were told this restaurant would have roughly 200 people in. I'm just going to stand up from my seat and just look out. And there's nobody here. It's just us three. It's just us three.
How do Mbappe and Zlatan influence the final?
Maybe they heard we were coming. It's our first Champions League final show. It's a EuroLeague special. Julien Laurent, you're a PSG fan who covers Arsenal all of the time. Who do you want to win?
Oh, wow, what a question to start the show. I mean, I think there's a good way of putting it. I was in Oslo at the weekend, last weekend, for the Women's Champions League final, and Mappy Leon on the Barca side and Ingrid Engen on the Lyon side have been a couple for five or six years now, and they were facing each other in that Champions League final. And certainly in our house, you know, with the ties that my wife has with Arsenal and the kids who are really, have been brought up PSG fans and Arsenal fans and they're allowed to have two clubs. I know it's not usually allowed, but they do because of the background.
Different countries is fine. Exactly.
What impact do Hincapie and Pacho's former manager have on the match?
That's allowed. For us, I know it sounds like a perfect final, but actually it isn't. And like I always say, the French love, absolutely love this English expression. But happy wife, happy life. So really, as much as I would love my PSG to go back to back, I think an Arsenal win and the whole Lawrence household would be very, very happy.
For every other household, for all of the neutral households, Guillaume, this is a great final, isn't it? It's got so much going for it.
Yeah, it's the two best teams in Europe, the best defence, the best attack. Some of the individuals that I'm sure we're going to try to get into the heads of are just giving us a lot of pleasure. And even though people have assumed, or perhaps it's fair to say that PSG are favourites, I've got the impression this will look very much like the, remember Istanbul, Manchester City, Inter Milan, with City dominating, but Inter defending for their lives and having a couple of chances at the end, they could have turned it around. It could have been like that. So if you ask about our prediction, I've been saying to everybody the same, 2-1. But I don't say who wins.
When this bracket was drawn, did you both think Arsenal-PSG final?
I think on the Arsenal side, they were the favourite. I mean, it was them and Barcelona that could make it in that semi-final.
What are the predictions for the Champions League final?
Atletico obviously beat Barcelona before. But it felt like that side on Arsenal, who topped the league phase without losing a game, that would look really solid.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the setting for the Champions League final preview?
0:00–0:13
2
Why are PSG considered favorites against Arsenal?
0:13–0:18
3
What makes Arsenal the biggest team without a Champions League title?
0:18–0:23
4
Which manager would be more entertaining to have dinner with?
0:23–1:30
5
What insights does Jesus Casas provide about Luis Enrique?
1:30–1:58
6
How do Mbappe and Zlatan influence the final?
1:58–2:42
7
What impact do Hincapie and Pacho's former manager have on the match?
2:42–3:57
8
What are the predictions for the Champions League final?
3:57–1:04:08
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