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What made the PSG vs Bayern match an all-time classic?
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Hello and welcome to The Guardian Football Weekly. That was a good game, wasn't it, Barry? Game of the season. Best game since the last best game you can remember. PSG 5, Bayern 4. It was thrilling. Two teams completely committed to playing quick, attacking football. So many brilliant players playing brilliantly. Kane put Bayern ahead. It could have been two. PSG came back. And then tiny man Jao Neves with a header. Elise banged one in for 2-2. Then a game's gone penalty for 3-2 PSG. In the second half, 4-2, 5-2. Did anyone think it was over? 5-3. And then the goal of the night. Kane's perfect pass. The touch of the night from Diaz to bring it down. Delay, delay and fire home. Wonderful stuff. Also last night, a huge game in the Championship at St Mary's and Jack Clark's late goal means Ipswich are in the box seat for promotion while Southampton settle for the playoffs.
There's Man Utd's win over Brentford from Monday, Jose to Real Madrid, question mark, and more of the feature of the season, Roy Hodgson in the wild in the West Country. All that plus your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly.
On the panel today, Barry Glendening, welcome.
How did Harry Kane influence the game for Bayern?
Hello, Max. Hello, Johnny Liu. Hi. And welcome, Jonathan Wilson. Morning. How are you doing? I'm very well. Andrew says, while PSG Bayern was outstanding, how does it really hold up to Wrexham being 5-2 down at home to Dover after 63 minutes in March 2022, only to come back to win 6-5 with 91st and 96th minute strikes from local lad Jordan Davies? There's levels to this. PSG 5, Bayern 4, the highest scoring semi-final in Champions League history, nine goals, only 11 shots on target. Manuel Neuer didn't... actually have to make a save. First time in two and a half years that Bayern have conceded five in a game. I know you're not a goals guy, Wilson, but this was special, I thought, this football match. Yeah.
What were the standout moments during the match?
Here we go. It was a little bit like... You know, if you get a really good chocolate mousse, and like the first two or three spoonfuls are amazing. And then you think, oh God, I've still got a whole bowl of this and I'm starting to feel slightly nauseous. And by halftime, I was already thinking, this could do with some toasted oats just to sort of calm it down. And by the end, I felt slightly nauseous. And so on the one level, it was brilliant.
How did Ipswich perform in their Championship match?
Obviously, it was an incredible thing to watch. The level of attacking football was brilliant. The drama was brilliant. But I couldn't help thinking this is actually just an indictment of modern football that this is what happens if you let half a dozen clubs get more money than everybody else by a massive margin. They can just accumulate all the best players there. And then in the domestic leagues, they never have to bother defending. So they don't actually know how to defend them. There's no midfields.
How did the penalty decisions impact the game?
There's no toasted oats, if you will. It's all too much of one thing. And then maybe if Manuel Neuer had actually been tested at all in the Bundesliga this season, they'd have noticed that he's too old and they should have been got rid of years ago. He had an awful night. He was terrible. So it was brilliant, but it was sort of a hollow brilliance, I felt.
Well, there we are. That's pissed on everyone's chips, hasn't it? Do you go with that, Jonny?
I mean, no, not really. Easily, please. Just give him sugar, he'll be fine. No, it is good. I mean, I think the crux of the question here is whether this was bad defending or intentional non-defending. I think there's a difference there. Like, is this a failure of defending or is this... Because everyone knows about the attacking talent on the pitch and both teams are aware that that's their strengths. So is this both teams just trying to play to their strengths or do they do it badly? And I think it's a bit of both. Like, if you take the Elisae goal for 2-2, which is a really... It's a great finish, but he also takes the ball totally unopposed in...
What are the implications of this match for the Champions League?
in what the, you know, the bit around the area, the bit that the nerds call zone 14, like simple Pavlovich pass.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What made the PSG vs Bayern match an all-time classic?
0:00–1:18
2
How did Harry Kane influence the game for Bayern?
1:18–2:03
3
What were the standout moments during the match?
2:03–2:28
4
How did Ipswich perform in their Championship match?
2:28–2:53
5
How did the penalty decisions impact the game?
2:53–4:01
6
What are the implications of this match for the Champions League?
4:01–9:00
7
What are the latest updates on Jose Mourinho's coaching future?
9:00–14:28
8
What are the key takeaways from the discussion on player fatigue?
14:28–47:59
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