UEFA Champions League

Amazon are already dipping their toe in the Premier League.

They're heavily invested already in Champions League football.

Would you be shocked if Meta and Facebook tried to get in on these things as well? You look at the NFL and YouTube have got in on the NFL broadcasting deals.

So have Amazon, so have Netflix.

Now, talking around Ezri Konca.

Earlier on in the week in the Champions League, he started and after 62 minutes, he was taken off.

After the game, Arteta said he was still struggling with a little bit of a knock.

He's played a lot of minutes that they decided just to take him off.

I'm recording just as the last games on Thursday evening are about to finish.

Sunderland are 2-0 down and Brighton are 1-0 up in case those change over the next 10 minutes or so.

Starting off in the Champions League now.

Man United with a big comeback.

There are absolutely no excuses for anything but a win.

And also, when you look at the Premier League, as much as it was annoying the Champions League, Liverpool are.

You still think fifth will likely get the Champions League place, but only a point off fourth place.

So it's an important game this weekend to keep up the chase.

And we're not looking to the top, let's be honest.

He is a young centre-half.

So exactly as he says, learn and come back stronger.

But with Big Ron expected to be in the line-up, with Jacquet, with it being the Champions League, and let's hope just that exception around that and set pieces, full focus.

They've been useless for the entirety of the second half of the season.

Villa just need to win to get themselves in the Champions League.

After 10 minutes, Emi Martinez goes walkabout and gets sent off.

We get a goal disallowed for absolutely nothing with 10 men.

Still stand over what I was saying.

Like, it isn't the end of the world losing one of the Champions League games.

And I'd certainly... prefer to do that rather than go and lose at the weekend.

But it's the manner, I think, in which we lost the game that really kind of just doesn't sit right.

Okay, Mestalla Valencia against Real Madrid.

Real Madrid coming off the back of another late win in the Champions League in Athens in midweek.

A feeling that Mourinho's Madrid's is coming together also a feeling that we sort of know and he knows now you know certain players that really have to play and certain players that you know are on the way out um Messiah Messiah for Real Madrid is always a big big away game of course I mean it goes without saying at this point still no Vanessa's Junior um for Real Madrid because he is still serving his his suspension um we've talked about the oman day and the fact that he's just scoring it's like he's outdoing himself in each success yes he is

yeah

Not just La Liga, but in the Copa as well.

But the meetings between these two have been...

in the Champions League as well, of course.

It's been unbelievably good.

But he is himself a very, very good centre forward.

And I think it's the sort of thing, again, when you can bring in three players in, you know, Welbeck, who I think has won... has won everything in England across his spells at Manchester United and at Arsenal, maybe not the Champions League, but he's won everything else in there.

Emi Martinez, who won the World Cup and won European competitions with Villa and succeeded with them.

And Jordan Henderson, who has definitely won the lot at club level.

And we want, you know, you want to believe that they can win the league, but just it occurs, doesn't it, a lot of the time where they just get sort of dragged a bit down or they tense up a little bit once you get to sort of February, March.

But I think Champions League, absolutely.

Like, I think...

Yes,

So it's a very winnable game, you'd think, even without Tom Lawrence.

Newcastle played earlier in the week in that Champions League game, went down as well.

They haven't won a game this season.

So what are your thoughts on the match-up?

I think Messi edges him.

But in the last 20, 25 years, he's absolutely in the top two players that we've seen.

OK, now the APL, the Champions League, continues on as well.

Arsenal back on top in the Premier League and looking pretty strong.