Welcome back to the Always Bayern Chelsea show for Episode 35. In this episode we get right into things by discussing beautiful family portraits and Chelsea's exhilarating 4-2 win over Brighton in the English Premiere League. Brighton opened things up early by scoring before Cole Palmer got one assisted by Nicolas Jackson. Palmer ended up scoring 4 goals total with the final one assisted by Jadon Sancho. We review all the highlights of the match, the Robert Sanchez lowlights, Enzo Maresca & Fabian Hurzeler's tactics as well as award our individual player awards.

We turn our attention to Germany as Bayern Munich drew Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 in a true heavyweight matchup. We set the scene for this match by describing the gorgeous autumn day with loved ones, friends, and fans at the incredible Estabrook Park beer garden. We breakdown all the tactics used by Vincent Kompany and Germany's record champions against Xabi Alonso and the defending Bundesliga champions. We review match highlights including the two incredible goals from Robert Andrich assisted by Granit Xhaka and Aleksander Pavlovic, player performances, individual match player awards, and talk about what this means for football in Germany and Europe going forward.

Now Chelsea gets ready to take on Gent in the Conference League and Bayern prepares to travel to England for Aston Villa in the Champions League.

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Timecodes:

Intro 00:00

Chelsea 01:07

Setting the scene 27:29

Bayern 28:30

Welcome back to the Always Bayern Chelsea show for Episode 34. This Episode starts off with a beautiful duet rendition of September by Earth, Wind, and Fire before our collective breakdown of the Chelsea's Saturday morning 9/21 beatdown of West Ham 3-0 in London. Nicolas Jackson scored a brace as well as assisting Cole Palmer's second half goal. Jadon Sancho and Moises Caicedo assisted Jackson's goals. As usual we provide a review of all the match highlights, individual performances, as well as coaching tactics. We close out our review of this match with our player match awards and previewing Chelsea's next matches against Barrow and Brighton in the EFL Cup and the English Premiere Leagues respectively.

Over in the Bundesliga Bayern Munich took down Werder Bremen 5-0 and we give our match review of this big victory as well. Complete as always with tactic talk and player performance discussions. Bayern continued their dominate run with Michael Olise scoring a brace, Harry Kane, Jamal Musiala, and Serge Gnabry found the back of the net as well. Olise and Kane both got 2 assists as well. We hand out our match awards for this one and look ahead to Bayern's massive Bundesliga matchup next weekend at home against defending league champions Bayer Leverkusen. Come see down the Old German Beer Hall in Milwaukee to catch that one live with the ABC family.

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Timecodes:

Intro/September (Cover) 00:00

Chelsea 00:45

Bayern 22:40

Family Gathering Formal Invitation: 45:20

Welcome to the Always Bayern Chelsea show for Episode 33. Danny flys solo in this episode providing a comprehensive thorough breakdown of Bayern Munich's record breaking victory over Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League 9-2. This was the first match of the 2024/2025 Champions League with the new format and Vincent Kompany's debut. Danny breaks down the match by reviewing all of the highlights and key moments, looking at coaching tactics, individual player performances, his overall thoughts on the match, what it means for Bayern going forward, and finally giving out his match player awards. Harry Kane scored four goals. Michael Olise scored two. Raphael Guerreiro scored one, Leroy Sane had one, and Leon Goretzka got one. Jamal Musiala, Joshua Kimmich, and Thomas Muller all notched assists as a key part of Bayern's relentless attack. Next, we hear Jim's quick thoughts on the match via an his audio recording. Finally, Danny previews what's next for Bayern Munich. Thanks for listening.

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Welcome to the 32nd Episode of the Always Bayern Chelsea show. We start this one off by reviewing Bayern Munich's utter destruction of Holstein Kiel in their 6-1 win in the Bundesliga on Saturday 9/14. We breakdown how the match played out including key moments, goals, individual player performances, coaching tactics, and lineups. Jamal Musiala scored within seconds of kickoff, Harry Kane had a hat trick, and Michael Olise scored his first Bundesliga goal. Finally, we end up our discussion by giving out our match awards for man of the match, runner-up, underrated performance, and best defender. Bayern now looks ahead to the Champions League for their first match against Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia on Tuesday 9/17.

We turn to Chelsea to discuss their epic last minute 1-0 victory over Bouremouth in the English Premiere. We take a look at what went wrong for Chelsea in the first half, as well as the difference makers in the second half. We breakdown key moments from the match, tactics, player performances, and the big final goal. Chelsea's keeper Robert Sanchez miraculously saved a penalty in the 38th minute of the match. Jadon Sancho came on for Chelsea and made an instant impact with his game action for the club. He provided the assist to Christopher Nkunku who slotted in a goal in the 86th minute to give Chelsea the win. As usual, we list out all of our match awards. Finally, we play some audio clips from Jim reacting to the match live in the moment, including a brand new song about Jadon Sancho himself.

Lastly, to close out we talk about some key news in the world of international football.

Thanks for watching and listening.

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Timecodes:

Introduction 00:00

Bayern 00:39

Chelsea 22:25

Sancho Song (unreleased) 44:19

News 46:38

Welcome to the 31st episode of the Always Bayern Chelsea show. This one is a special video episode interview with Nick, the creator of CleanSheetEPL, an English Premiere League blog and newsletter. Check it out on the Always Bayern Chelsea YouTube channel. CleanSheet EPL provides a macro level look into the English Premiere League as well as other European soccer with new content twice a week.

Nick shares a background of who he is, how he fell in love with soccer, and how he started CleanSheet EPL. Nick provides an overview on what CleanSheet EPL is and what you can expect to see this upcoming season. He previews the 24/25 Premiere League season including his best guesses as to who will finish at the top of the table. Finally Nick gives us his insight as to what he imagines is in store for both Chelsea Football Club and Bayern Munich this upcoming season. You won't want to miss this. Thanks for watching and listening.

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Welcome to the Always Bayern Chelsea show for Episode 30. We kick this episode off by reviewing Chelsea's mixed 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace on Sunday September 1st. Chelsea started off strong when Nico Jackson scored a nice goal assisted by Cole Palmer. We discuss how the matched progressed, as well as individual performances, and coaching tactics. To close out our discussion of the match we give out our match awards and look at what's next for Chelsea.

We turn the discussion towards Bayern Munich to talk about their 2-0 win over SC Freiburg in their Bundesliga home opener. Vincent Kompany rolled out a new formation that looked like a fluid 4-1-4-1. Harry Kane scored a penalty in the 38th minute and Thomas Muller sealed the victory in the 78th minute with a gorgeous goal assisted by Serge Gnabry. Muller made his 710th appearance for Bayern Munich, breaking the all time record for the club. Just like with the Chelsea match, we talk about the entire match, individual performances, coaching tactics, and hand out our coveted match awards.

We close things out by discussing the international break, all other news, and our exciting upcoming collaboration to be on the lookout for.

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Timecodes:

Introduction 00:00

Chelsea Reactions 01:19

Bayern Reactions: 18:20

Who the hell knows/news: 37:10

Welcome to a mini episode of the Always Bayern Chelsea show. In Episode 29 we see through the closing of the summer transfer window. We discuss all the incoming and outgoing transfers as well as loans that both Bayern Munich and Chelsea made. Jim takes the reigns for the Chelsea section and discusses their 1-2 second leg loss but 3-2 victory on aggregate over Servette to reach the Europa Conference league.

Danny takes things over by discussing all things Bayern Munich including transfers, news, and even the exciting Champions Leagues draw. We will be back in full force next week for match reactions and previews. As always stay tuned!

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Welcome to the Always Bayern Chelsea show for Episode 28. The 2024/2025 season is officially underway and we open this one off by discussing Bayern Munich and the brand new Bundesliga season. Bayern Munich defeated Wolfsburg 3-2 in exciting comeback fashion to kick off this campaign under Vincent Kompany. We break down how the match progressed including key moments, goals from Jamal Musiala, an own goal. curtesy of Harry Kane/Thomas Muller, and Serge Gnabry's match winner. We discuss coaching tactics, individual performances, the electric attack, and worrying defense. We give out our match awards to the best player, the runner up, the most underrated, and the game changing moment. Finally, we preview Bayern's upcoming weekend matchup in the Bundesliga against SC Freiburg on 9/1/24.

Then, we switch gears and cover Chelsea's demolition of Wolves 6-2. We review the ups and downs of that match. We review all of the exciting goals from Nico Jackson, Cole Palmer, Noni Madueke, and Joao Felix. Again we look at tactics, individual performances, and present our match awards. Next, we preview the second leg of the UEFA Conference League play-in where Chelsea faces Servette during the week on Thursday 8/29/24.

Finally we tease some transfer rumors & discuss news as the transfer window dwindles.

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Timecodes:

Introduction 00:00

Bayern Reactions/Preview 00:35

Chelsea Reactions/Preview 26:08

News 43:46

This is a mini episode of Always Bayern Chelsea, with Jim going solo. He discusses the Leg 1 match in the UECL playoff for Chelsea against Servette at Stamford Bridge on 8/22/24. Only ten minutes, Jim discusses each facet of the match and how the Chelsea squad performed. While it was not the greatest match, Jim remains confident that Chelsea will be a strong team this season.

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The Always Bayern Chelsea show is back for Episode 26. In the 2nd edition of our 2nd season we break down the first competitive matches of the 2024/2025 season. We kick things off by looking at Bayern Munich's 4-0 victory against SSV Ulm in the first round of the DFB Pokal tournament. We dive into all the key moments in the match, who scored, who assisted, how the match progressed, and review Vincent Kompany's tactics and how they worked. We present our first ever match awards for the match, Man of the Match, Runner-Up, Underrated Performance, of the match, and Defensive Performer of the Match. We even go through what this performance could mean in terms of what's in store for Bayern the rest of the year. Don't forget Bayern Munich plays another friendly on Tuesday 8/20/24 against Swiss Super League side Grasshopper Club Zurich. Bundesliga Match Week 1 is up next as we preview Bayern's exciting match against Wolfsburg on Sunday 8/25/24.

Next, we move on to breaking down Chelsea's 0-2 defeat to Manchester City in the first match of the new English Premiere League season. We look at how the match played out, Enzo Maresca's tactics, how the squad performed, who did well and who did poor, how things may shape up for Chelsea this season, and what the squad may look like going forward. Afterwards we preview Chelsea's Thursday Europa Conference League Play-Off against another Swiss Super League team Servette. Finally, we cap things off by previewing Chelsea's second English Premiere League match against Wolves on Sunday 8/25/24.

Bizarrely, we end the episode doing wolf calls and discussing the Sturgeon Moon.

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Timecodes:

Introduction: 00:00

Bayern Reactions/Previews: 01:50

Chelsea Reactions/Previews: 19:32

Jim's Wolf Impersonation: 36:30