Episode 123: Champions League 2025/26 Predictions
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European football prophet Nick Robertson and European football expert Taylor Monroe drop their highly anticipated Champions League preview and predictions episode for the 2025/26 campaign. The duo introduces the participants for this season's rendition, reveals the schedules for the tournament favorites, and makes their predictions for who will qualify for top 8 and the playoff round, along with who will be eliminated early. Timestamps: 0:00-4:12 Intro 4:13-18:40 Celtic & Rangers Should Be Dissolved 18:41-22:34 Red Star Belgrade & Fenerbahce Fall Short 22:35-37:20 Premier League...
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Episode 122: Intro to the 2025/26 Season
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Nick and Taylor return from the summer break to preview the 2025/2026 club campaign, which is now officially underway across Europe. The European football experts clown Manchester United for losing to League 2 side Grimsby Town on penalties in the EFL Cup 1st round, discuss their experiences during the Club World Cup, and make predictions for the title races, Champions League placements, and relegation candidates for the Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga, and the Premier League. Timestamps: 0:00-18:45 Man United Trolling, Opening Matches for Fulham & Bayern 18:46-28:20 Club World Cup...
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Episode 121: Paris Finally Wins the Champions League
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Well, Nick Robertson's bold, audacious, and unfathomable prediction came true after all: PSG indeed won their first UCL title before Mbappe did with Real Madrid. Nick and Taylor analyze a truly historic Champions League Final in Munich, where PSG punished Simone Inzaghi's Inter by a record-breaking scoreline of 5-0. The European football expert--and newly crowned European football prophet-- break down the tactics, the lineups, the goals, and the significance of this special night in Munich. Finally, the duo clown the Europa League finalists one last time, and look ahead to the fast-approaching...
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Episode 120: PSG vs Inter UCL Final Preview
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Nick and Taylor provide a comprehensive preview of this season's Champions League conclusion between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan. Our European football experts break down the paths that both clubs endured to reach the Final in Munich, the tactical and personnel matchups between both clubs, and, finally, provide predictions for who will win the ultimate prize in European club football. Timestamps: 0:00-21:57 PSG's Path to the Final 21:58-35:24 Inter's Path to the Final 35:25-01:03:09 How PSG and Inter Match Up 01:03:10-01:07:36 UCL Final Predictions 01:07:37-01:09:29 Conclusion
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Episode 119: Inter vs Barcelona: The Greatest UCL Tie in History
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Nick and Taylor break down a truly unforgettable Champions League Semifinals, which featured a 13-goal spectacle between Inter and Barcelona, and another captivating PSG performance against Premier League opposition in Arsenal. Our European football experts analyze the tactics, the goals, the VAR checks, the saves, the substitutions, and the implications from yet another exhilarating Champions League Semifinals. Timestamps: 0:00-24:44 Barcelona 3-3 Inter (1st Leg) 24:45-41:50 Inter 4-3 Barcelona (2nd Leg) 41:51-54:36 Arsenal 0-1 PSG (1st Leg) 54:37-01:11:27 PSG 2-1 Arsenal (2nd Leg)...
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Episode 118: Arsenal Destroys Madrid, Inter Edges Bayern
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European football experts Nick and Taylor analyze yet another thrilling rendition of the Champions League Quarterfinals, which included a rare matchup between the reigning holders Real Madrid and Arsenal, a classic meeting between Inter Milan and Bayern Munich, a first-time meeting between Aston Villa and Paris Saint-Germain, and a rematch between Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona from a few months prior. The duo break down the storylines, the goals, the controversies, and the tactics from the last eight, as the closing stages of the Champions League are within our sights. Timestamps: 0:00-2:25...
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Episode 117: Real Madrid & Paris Prevail on Penalties
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Nick and Taylor break down all of the action from the Champions League Round of 16, which featured two exhilarating ties that went the full distance to penalty kicks. French champions PSG faced current Premier League leaders Liverpool, who also finished on top of the 36-team UCL Group Phase. Cross town rivals Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid met in the competition for the first time since the 2016/17 semifinals. Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen met for the first time in the UCL and for the fourth & fifth times this season in all competitions. Borussia Dortmund and Lille faced off for the...
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Episode 116: Mbappe Masterclass vs City, Italian Clubs Swept Away
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Nick and Taylor provide a comprehensive analysis of the first ever Champions League Playoff round, which absolutely lived up to the hype. The Playoff round featured a blockbuster rematch for the fourth-straight season between Real Madrid and Manchester City, two Italian vs Dutch matchups (including a rematch between PSV and Juventus from Matchday 1), a rematch between Benfica and Monaco from Matchday 5, an all-French affair between PSG and UCL debutants Brest, and several other entertaining ties. Our European football experts dissect the tactics, goals, blunders, and endless drama from a...
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Episode 115: Matchday 8: The Group Phase Finale
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Taylor analyzes the complete slate of Matchday 8 fixtures from the Champions League group phase. This epic conclusion featured sixteen fixtures in which at least one club had something to play for: a top-8 finish, a seeded playoff spot, or an unseeded playoff spot. As eighteen clubs had mathematically secured a top-24 finish after Matchday 7, nine clubs competed for the remaining six playoff spots, including PSV, Club Brugge, Benfica, PSG, Sporting, Stuttgart, Manchester City, Dinamo Zagreb, and Shakhtar Donetsk. Additionally, only Liverpool and Barcelona had mathematically secured top-8...
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Episode 114: Benfica and Man City Crumble, Feyenoord Baffles Bayern
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Nick and Taylor return just in time to provide comprehensive analyses of Matchday 7 in the Champions League with just days to go before the final League Phase matchday! Our European football experts explain what went wrong for Benfica and Manchester City, how Feyenoord somehow scored three on a dominant Bayern side, and how Atletico Madrid adapted to overturn seemingly impossible odds. Matchday 7 featured 2/8 clubs securing automatic round of 16 placements, 18/24 total clubs securing the playoff round at minimum, and 9/12 clubs becoming mathematically eliminated from reaching the playoff...
info_outlineNick and Taylor provide complete coverage of Matchday 1 of the newly redesigned Champions League format, which produced some absolute spectacles—and a few snoozers—across Europe. The duo examines history in the making, as Bayern continues to crush every opponent in sight, demolishing the Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb in Munich; Liverpool reversed an early deficit to make a statement at San Siro versus a struggling Milan; Brest brilliantly triumphed in their European debut against the Austrian champions of Sturm Graz; and Juventus, Aston Villa, Leverkusen, Monaco, and Sparta Praha returned to the competition with emphatic victories. Our European football experts also share their early tournament favorites, dark horses, and standouts as Matchday 2 quickly approaches.