Official UEFA Champions League Podcast Folgen

On a night of classic UEFA Champions League drama, Paris survive an Aston Villa fight back to win 5-4 on aggregate and progress to the last four, despite losing 3-2 on the night. Meanwhile, Borussia Dortmund give Barcelona a scare winning 3-1 in Germany. However, Barca progress 5-3 on aggregate. We hear from Villa goal scorer Ezri Konsa, as well as Dortmund’s Pascal Gross. Plus, Jude Bellingham looks ahead to the final night of quarter final action, where his Real Madrid team look to come from behind against Arsenal, and Inter defend a 2-1 lead against Bayern heading to San Siro.

It was home advantage in Wednesday’s quarter-finals as both Barca and Paris secured impressive first leg wins against Dortmund and Aston Villa respectively. In Spain, it was Barcelona’s front three that the did the damage with Raphinha, Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski (twice) grabbing the goals as the Catalan club surged to a convincing 4-0 first leg win over Borussia Dortmund. We hear from a very satisfied Barca coach Hansi Flick. In Paris, it was a much tighter affair, with the French champions having to come from behind to secure a late 3-1 first leg victory over Aston Villa. Morgan Rogers put the English side into a surprise lead but three brilliant goals from Désiré Doué, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Nuno Mendes put Paris Saint-Germain in control of the tie heading into the second leg in Birmingham next week. We hear from two of the scorers on the night, Paris’ Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Villa’s Morgan Rogers. We also look ahead to next week’s quarter-final second legs and hear from Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta, Real Madrid’s Carlo Ancelotti and Bayern’s Vincent Kompany.

On a memorable night in North London, two wondrous Declan Rice free-kicks, plus a fine finish from Mikel Merino saw Arsenal take a 3-0 advantage in their quarter-final first leg against Real Madrid. Meanwhile in Munich, Inter ended Bayern's 22 match unbeaten home run in the UEFA Champions League, thanks to Davide Frattesi's 88th minute winner. That means the Nerazzurri will look to defend a 2-1 lead in the tie at Stadium San Siro in next week’s 2nd leg. In the podcast, we hear from Arsenal's goal-scorers Rice & Merino, plus manager Mikel Arteta, as well as Madrid’s Jude Bellingham. Plus we look ahead to Wednesday's two quarter-finals first legs and hear from Villa manager Unai Emery.