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The EPL Index Podcast — First CL Night: Two Footed Extra Time. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. What's good, boys and girls? Two foot of extra. Today is Wednesday. It is the ninth of September. Let's get straight into a Champions League last night. Wasn't a particularly appealing group of games, but turned out to give us some good games. Club Brooga 2, Aston Villa 3, McGinn, Pod Villa 1-Up, Vettlesson equalized. When Dia made it to 1, Nicholas Jackson made a 3-1, and then a Thrasal D Penitenti made it to 3-2 Villa worthy of the win, but clinging on a little bit at the end. Moving on then to Leal 2, actually sorry, we'll do the other 5-45 game, AAK 1, last Neil Razvan Marin with the only goal in that one. Moving on then to our 8 p.m. kickoffs, Porto Neil Manchester City 2, Erling Highland in the second minute of the second half,
and the first minute of stoppage time, giving City a well-deserved win. They were the better team without question, and they get their campaign up and running. Real Madrid 2, Inter Milan 1, Curtis Jones and Trent Alexander-Arnold with a mid-off in midfield. Mbappe made it 1 thanks to Curtis Jones, Valverde made it 2, and then Real seemed to hit a wall and just couldn't generate much of that. Carlos Augusto pulled one back for Inter. I do think Inter will be disappointed because I thought they were doing quite well until that Jones mistake. But onwards and upwards, Borussia Dortmund 3, Virel 2, and nothing game for 55 minutes. Renato Viega puts through his own net to make it 1 for Dortmund, Santiago Moreno scores on 66 to make it 1-0, and then it became the Cerejo Gracie show. On 80 he made it 2-1 to Dortmund, on 85 he made it 3-1 to Dortmund from the penalty spot,
and then he was so desperate for his hat trick that a 93 minutes he put it through his own net to make it 3-2. Finally then we get Leal against Real Betis, and this was an entertaining game. Dueda made it 1 for Leal, Marc Bartre equalised. Alexandre scored almost immediately to make it 2-1 for Leal, and then Marc Bartre scored again, and then Troy Parris the best striker in the world right now. Troy powered on 53 minutes to give Betis a win. Their first Champions League, when I think since, I think I saw since 2007 or something crazy like that. Ethan and Bappe, younger brother of Killy, and sent off on 56. If there was going to be more goals, they were going to come from Betis, but that was all we got. Tonight in the Champions League, we have Barcelona, Fionord and Stuttgart against Viking, those are the 545s, at 8pm it's PSG against Slován Bratislava, sporting club against Galatasaray,
Napoli against Arsenal and Liverpool against Atlético Madrid. So the two games involving English clubs should be decent. I think sporting Galatasaray might be the better spectacle, like the most even match of the 4 PSG should batter Slován, let's be fair. We also had League Cup action last night. We are at the third round stage, and Bournemouth beat Lincoln by four goals to Nilde was a Ryan Christie hatrick, and then Ryan scored the fourth. Late and Orient won Bradford City 3. McColley Gillespie put through his own net on 38 put late and Orient won up, but then Will Swan, Stephen Humphreys and Nick Powell with the goals and Bradford continue an unlikely couple on and march on fair play to them. Crystal Palace 3, Middlesbrunnil, two for Jorgen Strandlerson and then a gorgeous goal by
Dijkje Kamada who ran from midfield onto a through ball and clipped it over the goalkeeper. It was very similar to a goal Beckham scored early in his career and I want to say that was a League Cup game as well. I could be wrong, but if you go and look up David Beckham Manchester United goals, you will see that goal. He runs on into space and from probably 22-23 yards out on the angle, clips it over the goalkeeper. Kamada's maybe didn't have the loft of Beckham's maybe a little bit more powerfully here, but a similar type of goal. What else do we have last night? Sondland won whole nil, Chemsley and Talby with the only goal in that one, so Sondland move on whole can focus on the league, which I actually think is a good thing. And finally then we got Millwall nil, Newcastle United won, Joe Willock with the only goal of the game to send the tune through. There's one game tonight that is Chelsea versus Leeds United, that's an APM kickoff.
The rest of the games from the third round will be next week. Next Tuesday we will have five games and next Wednesday. We will also have five games. So there we are caught up with all of that. Ranking Europe's greatest football dynasties, okay. Spoke brilliantly by fans, Tornham, McAllister, Contra, comments I thought he was absolutely spot on. Is 15-year-old Gabriel said to become United's youngest ever player, it would be very stupid if he did to be completely honest. Irving stays as Pognogli, sorry, Pognogli, refreshes Scotland squad, okay, so he's going to keep Alan Irvine on the staff. Alan Irvine obviously an assistant manager for Everton as well. Lionel Messi agrees to buy second Spanish club. Lionel Messi is buying
Eldens. Okay, so he previously bought a Catalan side Cornela in April and now he's buying Eldens who played the second division in Spain. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. I always thought he'd get an MLS franchise. I still think he will. I still think he will. Where else do I fit into Chelsea's all-star attack? Quite frankly, he doesn't because Palmer Rogers and Joe Pedro all want ball to feed and so does he and I don't think he can start four ball to feed players together. Buaddy impresses on first start of Man City Found a Gem. No, they haven't found a gem. They paid a hundred million quid for him. Leo found a gem. Josie Merino says Trent Alexander Arnold is not a midfielder. I could have told you that Josie and saved you the unpleasant experience of having to watch him there. Michael Carrick has explained
Luke Shaw's absence. Okay, after 717 days and nine career-over diagnoses, player makes surreal return. This is Oli Hartfield, who plays for older shot 10. He tore ligaments and dislocated his knee during a national league match in September of 2024 and there were fears he could lose his leg. He was told by nine people that his careers were over, but on Tuesday night he made a return against West Ham in the national league copy played just over 30 minutes before leaving the pitch to a standing ovation. Okay, so he started and then he came off after 34 minutes. Apparently he's been documenting this on TikTok, so maybe that's something that's worth looking up. Yeah, it sounds like a horrible injury,
but yeah, that's maybe one to follow and see if he can continue to get back to playing. Some find sweet but fleeting success blah blah blah blah blah blah. Right, these are the 10 dynasties that they're marking down. PSG right now. That's fair. Into Milan 63 to 65. Fair. Benfica 60 to 62. Bion's three in a row 73 to 76. Pep Sparcelona, O8 to 12. AC Milan 88 to 95. That they should be higher. They should be higher. Liverpool 76 to 84 is four. Rail Madrid 13 to 18. That's Zadans. Well, it's Carlos team and then Zadans team. Iaxes three in a row. I'm not really sure how they're ahead of Liverpool who won four European
cups or that AC Milan team, which won three and is in the sake of the best team ever assembled. And number one is Rail Madrid 55 to 16, which to be honest played a different sport and we shouldn't really count them. And I think that is it. I'm going to go to break. I'll be back with the gossip. Right, welcome back. So Chelsea are ready to make a move for Alex Scott, the Transoe Wendell Disclosed. Hammers Rodriguez is in talks to sign for a Serie B site, Avalino managed by Alessandro Nesta, who's not a good coach. Joe Willock will be offered a new contract if he continues to perform well under Matthias Yasley. That's just an instance. Ryan has a 130 million release clause that takes effect next summer. Now we've been told previously that that clause takes effect in January by the same person David Ornstein who's reporting this. So it's hard to know what's true. For them are expected to begin contract talks with Calvin Bassie. Okay,
Chermstein Talby is close to agreeing a deal for Saudi pro league side Alethi had. I have doubts that that's true. Liverpool and Manchester United are monitoring Malik Tear highly unlikely, highly united maybe. That's enough. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye bye.
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