World Football Talk

It's a Champions League special as 4 teams booked their place in the UEFA Champions League Quarterfinals!

Ajax demolished Real Madrid at the Bernabeu to cap off one of the worst 7-day stretches in club history, while Tottenham prevented a bottle job at the hands of Dortmund and cruised to a 4-0 aggregate effort.

On Wednesday, Porto and Roma played an insanely back and forth game that ended in extra time, but it was PSG's collapse against Manchester United that capped off this first eventful week of second legs.

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It's certainly all been leading to this moment. Kepa refusing to come out as Extra Time waned in the Carabao Cup Final against Manchester City. In what is already being dubbed a "misunderstanding" between the goalkeeper and manager, they aren't fooling us. As our resident Chelsea fan, Ryan's got takes.

We try to decipher this incident, what came before and of course the penalty kicks afterwards as City snapped up their second consecutive League Cup.

We then move on to VAR decisions that would've, could've, should've been called in the Premier League and UEFA Champions League. Thomas gets pretty heated about VAR and the reasoning people have to keep it out of the sport.

Brace yourself, this one gets heated.

Ryan just can't catch a break. After hammering him about Chelsea's loss to Bournemouth, they follow that up with losing to Manchester City. Now, they double down and crash out of the FA Cup with a devastating loss to Manchester United. What can be done to fix Chelsea's tailspin? Ryan isn't optimistic it can be done.

We then move on to the best of the rest of the FA Cup Round of 16, if you want to call it that.

A spirited discussion of Real Madrid vs Ajax, Man United vs PSG and other Champions League Round of 16 1st legs leads to some debates on who surprised and who disappointed.

Finally, we cover a couple relevant Europa League Round of 32 1st leg results, and discuss possibly doing away with the away goals rule.

What a spicy podcast we have in store for you. Ryan tries to make sense of a demoralizing 6-0 loss to Manchester City. In what could be a lynchpin result of the 2018/19 Premier League season, how do we forecast the rest of the season going.

We then move on to some huge results throughout the table as Spurs took on Leicester City, Cardiff got a huge 3 points in a 6-pointer, Fulham and Huddersfield continue to be doomed and Arsenal...gets an expected win.

We also flash through some headlines from around the world. Ryan barely made it through the episode.

We start off with the freshest game of the day as Manchester City avoid a brief scare and cap off a wonderful 3-1 victory over Unai Emery's men. With just two points separating them and Liverpool going into Liverpool's Monday game, can City keep pace?

Ole Solskjaer's team won yet again, despite a bit of nervy football from Manchester United against the Foxes. Marcus Rashford scored again, but United still have some work to do to secure Top 4.

A bit of an extended argument is had about Gonzalo Higuain now that he is off the mark for Chelsea, but we then pivot to the Transfer Deadline Day. We cover transfers such as Miguel Almiron, Luciano Acosta, Michy Batshuayi and a failed Idrissa Gueye transfer.

It's a Cup-tastic episode as we start off with the Chelsea vs Tottenham second leg of the ever-prestigious Carabao Cup Semifinals. Ryan's flipped on his stance on the cup, of course.

We then move onto the 4th Round of the FA Cup and go over some of the notable matches, starting with Arsenal vs Manchester United.

We then wrap up with some transfer talk featuring Gonzalo #HiguaIN, Mario Balotelli, Alvaro Morata and more!

A couple of high-profile matches caught our attention this week and they were both London Derbies.

Arsenal and Chelsea battled it out in a crucial match for Top 4 Supremacy and Ryan was left with a bit of a sour taste in his mouth from the whole ordeal.

In Fulham, Spurs barely squeaked out a win in their first game without Harry Kane and still have a lot of questions yet to be answered.

Also, dispersed throughout the discussion of this weekend's contests, we take a look at Alvaro Morata, Gonzalo Higuain and Krysztof (sp?) Piatek as they are all shuffling locations.

All this and more on a brand new World Football Talk!

Manchester United vs Tottenham was a blistering game that including some lethal counterattacking and some brilliant goalkeeping. We spend about 20 minutes breaking this bad boy down tactically and talk about the implications it has on both teams and their schedule ahead.

Ryan then rapid fires through the rest of the results in the Premier League before the gents take a look at all of the transfer news and rumors halfway through the January transfer window.

After our festive hiatus, we are back to discuss one of the best games of the season in Manchester City vs Liverpool. In a game so crucial to the 18-19 title race, did Kompany deserve to see red?

We move on to talk about Ryan's Chelsea and try to figure out what is wrong with the Blues. We also touch upon the big news of Christian Pulisic's transfer to Chelsea and if he is going to face Morata-like expectations...or worse.

Finally, Ryan insists the FA Cup 3rd Round is more fun than the International Break. Absolute lunacy.

We are back and better than ever as we try out some new tech to improve the pod! We put the new mic to the test as we lay in with some rants about Jose Mourinho and how his tenure and sacking has affected Thomas mentally.

We move on to the Carabao Cup Quarterfinals and talk about...the magic of the cup?

We quickly move on to the Festive Fixtures and pick out our favorite matchups over the next two weeks.