Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Coming up on today's show, do you think Pep got it wrong yesterday?
Man City was by far the favourites in this game, but yesterday the defence were all over the shop.
He will be hating this moment. He will be hating the fact that he's not scoring goals.
Is it just because Real Madrid come alive at this stage in this competition? Not entirely surprising that Spurs got battered at Atletico. The lack of care or the lack of foot, even just to blank him on the way past. That was the most cutting thing for me.
Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Football with Alan Shearer, Micah Richardson, me, Gary Lineker. Well, the English teams went into the last 16 of the Champions League with six teams. And over the course of the last two days, they didn't win one single football match. So quite an alarming start for the Premier League sides. Firstly, though, you both were working over the last couple of days. You, Micah, CBS, no doubt. Long nights.
Why do Real Madrid excel in the Champions League knockout stages?
Yes, long nights. Bad results, but it is what it is. We still had fun.
Alan, you were at Newcastle. Yeah, I did the Newcastle-Barthelona game. The result was harsh, I thought. Best performance out of all the English teams this week, I think.
What?
Best performance of one? Come on! What? Anyway, just before we go on, were you... The best performance of all the English teams and a little grin. I mean, bloody hell.
Were you working Tuesday and Wednesday, Micah? I was working, yeah, the double, the double-double. So you can do double-bubble.
Depends how much you're getting paid.
Yes, Newcastle, best performance of the week in the Champions League from the English clubs.
I did like the, I don't know whether you saw it, the story of the Barcelona fan that came over, arrived in London. put into Google Maps or whatever, St. James's Park, and he ended up at Exeter. Exeter, yeah. At the other St. James's Park. And Exeter, good as gold. I think they said, well, you can come and watch the game anyway. And I think he ended up watching Exeter versus Lincoln.
Brilliant. He missed his team getting absolutely battered anyway, so he's probably fortunate.
Absolutely battered now. They've gone from best performance, Mike, to absolutely battering Barcelona.
Newcastle, were you not impressed with Newcastle's performance, lads?
We were so impressed, Al. Honestly, we were so impressed. Yeah, I thought they did really well.
They were excellent, weren't they? Eddie Howell, with his game plan, got it spot on. Barca didn't know what to do. They couldn't play. Newcastle were too aggressive and they were always looking for that ball over the top. I just thought it was really good. You know, if you can do it against Barcelona, you think to yourself, why can't I do that every week? And I know every team's got to play like Barcelona. They do give you opportunities. They do allow you to run over the top.
Did Pep Guardiola make tactical errors against Real Madrid?
But I just thought there was a confidence about the team and a little bit of swagger. Is that fair?
Yeah, I agree with that. Especially the news beforehand that Anthony Gordon wasn't fit enough to start. And he put Willis Sula in instead of Walter Marder and Wissow, which is another thing. That goes, when you look at the recruitment, but... Yeah, it is very different when Champions League comes to town. The Champions League teams come out and play where a lot of Premier League clubs will sit deep and Newcastle have found that really tough this season because they've not been able to unlock too many defences in the Premier League. But in Champions League, they all come out and they all leave space in behind, particularly Barcelona. In the first half, there were some brilliant balls going across, but they just didn't have the quality in and around the six-yard box to finish it off.
I saw some clips on socials yesterday where they showed you and John Champion, I think, during the two goals.
Yeah.
how hard is it when it's your team to do, like when it's as big a game as that, not to like, I saw you restraining yourself to not celebrate.
Did you see the little, when the cross went in from Jacob Murphy, I actually went, I give it, I give it one of them a little, a little twitch as if to say, go on, get on the end of it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:12
2
Why do Real Madrid excel in the Champions League knockout stages?
1:12–3:10
3
Did Pep Guardiola make tactical errors against Real Madrid?
3:10–6:20
4
Why did no Premier League teams take a lead into the second leg?
6:20–7:32
5
What impact does the domestic schedule have on English clubs?
7:32–10:11
6
How is Igor Tudor handling goalkeeper Antonín Kinský's performance?
10:11–10:57
7
What are the implications of Spurs' poor performance against Atletico?
10:57–25:03
8
How do injuries affect Real Madrid's current squad?
25:03–45:35