Official UEFA Champions League Podcast Folgen

The Round of 16 first legs culminated with late drama, as Porto’s talisman Galeno struck an injury time stunner to break Arsenal hearts. Elsewhere in Italy, it was a battle of the goalscoring number nines as Victor Osimhen cancelled out Robert Lewandowski’s first half strike to earn Napoli a 1-1 draw with Barcelona. We hear from Barca midfielder Ilkay Gundogan on the two world class strikers as well as Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta and Declan Rice, who is optimistic ahead of the 2nd leg despite his side’s narrow defeat. 

The Round of 16 continued with two more absorbing first leg encounters. In Milan, Inter overcame Atletico 1-0 at the San Siro courtesy of a late Marko Arnautovic strike. While in Eindhoven, PSV and Dortmund played out a evenly fought 1-1 draw with a Luke de Jong penalty cancelling out an early Donyell Malen strike for the Germans. We hear from Arnautovic as well as team-mate Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak. We also look ahead to Wednesday’s first leg encounters and hear from Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta. 

Paris Saint-Germain began the knockout stage with an impressive 2-0 home victory in their round of 16 first leg tie against Real Sociedad, with Kylian Mbappe and Bradley Barcola on the scoresheet. Meanwhile, Lazio surprised 10 man Bayern in Rome, winning 1-0 at the Stadio Olimpico, thanks to a Ciro Immobile penalty. We hear from Paris’ Player of the Match Kylian Mbappe, as well as Bayern forwards Harry Kane and Thomas Muller.