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Read it, PG-13. Hello

1:01

and welcome back to the UCL Fantasy Podcast

1:03

as we enter Match Day 12, the second legs

1:06

of the semi-finals. We're going to talk about last

1:08

week, a review, how we're doing in our league, what

1:10

we're going to be doing this week. All of that

1:12

to come on the UCL Fantasy Podcast. Hello

1:28

gents. Have you had a good week? Lewis,

1:40

have you had a good week? Are

1:43

you looking forward to the second leg of the semi-finals? No

1:46

and no. I didn't

1:48

have a good week and I'm looking forward to the semi-finals.

1:50

Okay, go on, expand. Really? No, I'm

1:52

really glad you're doing this podcast then Lewis. Oh God.

1:56

Anyway, yeah. You should do what I do, which is when I lose.

2:00

I just don't turn up, I don't make YouTube do

2:02

it. Yeah, why haven't you booked

2:04

a holiday, Lewis? That seems to be what Ed

2:06

does. Anyway, go

2:08

on, talk to us. Yeah,

2:10

so I mean at this point,

2:12

as other people know, when you're

2:15

trying to gain rank, you have

2:17

to go different. And

2:20

one of the ways in which a

2:22

lot of people like myself went different

2:25

this week was by not owning Videsh's

2:27

Junior, and Videsh's Junior got the brace.

2:30

So yeah, it was a huge,

2:32

huge points return for Videsh. And

2:35

obviously it's suicidal at this

2:37

point in terms of rank, because he's

2:39

so half of the own, and not just that, but

2:42

a lot of people trying to gain rank

2:44

amongst the elite players would have potentially captained

2:46

him too. In fact, I saw a lot

2:48

of people captain Videsh's Junior. So

2:52

that's it. In terms of that Videsh's Junior, he

2:54

ruined my entire week basically. I

2:58

mean, I got the Dortmund double

3:01

clean sheet, so that was

3:03

something. But yeah, other than

3:06

that, nothing. Oh yeah, you had Coble

3:08

and Martin, didn't you? Yeah,

3:11

Coble and Martin, and obviously it

3:13

dropped me down to about 20k.

3:17

But for me, it's... I

3:19

mean, the season was over a while

3:21

ago, but it doesn't mean that I'm

3:23

not going to try my best to

3:25

get back into it with some

3:28

different moves this week probably. And you

3:30

went into the game with nine players, didn't you? Do you

3:32

regret that at all? You didn't have a

3:34

F11, or was that just what you had to do because you couldn't take

3:36

any more hits? Yeah,

3:39

I just felt like nine was enough. And

3:43

I think it would have been enough if I

3:45

had Videsh's Junior, that Rodrigo was a massive

3:47

point swing. But

3:49

yeah, I think nine players, a double Dortmund

3:51

clean sheet, and Videsh probably would

3:53

have got me a green arrow this week. Dan,

3:59

you did a little bit better. So Louis

4:01

Gods and fat How many points you get?

4:03

Lois Louis go forty one You got forty

4:05

six. A little bit better I thought was

4:07

biting. Yeah I.

4:11

I. Can overrule like regardless how much

4:13

he did A really enjoyed the semi

4:15

final first legs like apple or to

4:17

break games I don't know that you,

4:19

I'm. Famous He went on

4:22

Twitter and a tirade against the

4:24

I'm. You. Know the

4:26

removal of the away goal room. And.

4:29

I'll be honest michael instinct was also a terrible

4:31

idea and I think I went into it with

4:33

the same thought processes you is that the away

4:35

team which saw of sit there and they be

4:38

to try and hold on the back to the

4:40

what's happened is. Is.

4:42

It's freed the home team's the

4:44

home team's. The. Player with the

4:46

sense of. If

4:48

of a will to win a posts were fear of

4:50

loss you know what the was always that. Knife

4:53

Edge Diploma in when you get. Me:

4:56

I'm a home advantage count. Book.

4:58

With the fort concede a goal is for you.

5:00

It's like two goals and I think. Having

5:03

that sort of tactical existential

5:05

crisis for moved from teams

5:07

gourmand this this sort of?

5:10

yeah. Everyone's.

5:12

Just attack any to than one really. No.

5:14

One really cares on the away team, it's

5:17

freeing them have to play on the counter

5:19

attack a Both games were brilliant, but the.

5:21

The quarter finals were brilliant. Has been lot of

5:24

goals so fair enough. Maybe the powers of be

5:26

the of got one rice and a bigger the

5:28

see how it's or works out of the next

5:30

couple years but. I

5:32

loved stop Psg vs Dortmund game that

5:35

was absolute box office com believe it

5:37

only ended with one goal acting as

5:39

a final score Likely should have been

5:42

five to six, three or something wild.

5:44

Ah, as far as my team went,

5:47

It went okay, I'm with forty six,

5:49

wasn't the best Mushy Mushy would be

5:52

great if I just went for Vanessa

5:54

students had a rodrigo. His

5:56

were mentioned the pods loose just said

5:58

you have to tix the risks somewhere

6:00

to try and get those edges. I'm

6:02

so happy with Rodrigo for the second

6:04

leg m although I do think I'll

6:06

be bringing in Vinicius Junior Hurricane anywhere

6:09

spoiler and being the home team and

6:11

by and gonna be three one again

6:13

the to him away from home the

6:15

just not goes away. a team that

6:17

had a pretty strong defense. all of

6:19

the rest that he wasn't the best.

6:21

I'm. Yeah. Sigma The

6:23

regret would have been. Not.

6:26

Actually, haven't an extra Dortmund defender

6:28

in there. Because I

6:30

did feel like they were the best team to

6:32

get results being the home team had talked about

6:35

it and with the results in the group stages

6:37

with a big one one but Dalton or through

6:39

apple need the really how to put too much

6:41

effort. Of. All of the.

6:44

The. Teams there with the one that I did

6:46

fancy the most just given. That. Home

6:48

form this that he will play and against us probably.

6:51

Probably. The one move that I may be

6:53

regret their say if I had a time machine

6:55

at Go Back in Time may get the message

6:57

Junior Of course I was a book in terms

7:00

of my actual decision make and Dortmund would have

7:02

fit that. Kim got one point yet a while

7:04

game. Am. He

7:06

or she thought we played all right for

7:08

the most part we had to how less

7:10

in there and you know he concedes two

7:12

goals, he concedes a penalty get a yellow

7:14

car but he gets seven bowl recovery so

7:16

he ends up and and now have one

7:18

point which is awful but miraculous at the

7:21

same time a midfielder brought sunny and so

7:23

he did wonders for me get and seven

7:25

points which I think suicide a rare. Rare

7:28

seven points out with the midfield as

7:30

none of them to be performed. I

7:32

removed Mccain captaincy month for Brands. And

7:35

he was really unlucky not to get a

7:37

goal. He must be shot and you should

7:39

have a to assist sub. it's a missing

7:41

one of them in particular such was amazed

7:43

at what he was plow the much probably

7:45

although homos did do really well and. Potential:

7:49

A full pines inside. it's like a three

7:51

for the he was points.in the lot of

7:53

them were points Dogs in all night long.

7:56

With. Those so it could have been better, but it

7:58

could have certainly been a lot worse. 10

8:01

players overall. Brilliant.

8:03

Well done. Yeah, you got 46. I mean, just

8:05

to go back to the rant

8:07

I did about first legs

8:10

and the way goals were

8:12

all being taken away and it ruining first legs, just

8:14

to show how bad that was, that prediction.

8:18

The quarterfinals, the aggregate scores were

8:20

3-2, 4-4, 5-4 and

8:22

4-6, or 6-4, so

8:24

that shows how, I guess nil, nil, nil, nil,

8:26

nil, nil, nil, nil for the quarterfinal first legs.

8:29

But obviously I was completely wrong, though, and I'm

8:31

happy to admit that. Anyway, you say, Lewis got

8:33

41, you got 45. I got, of course, as

8:35

in... Oh,

8:38

I got 46, you took your side, give us

8:40

my point back. Sorry, 46. And in

8:43

classic podcasts and us three sort

8:46

of form, I got 47, so I beat

8:48

you both. Basically, the story

8:50

of my game week was I did have Vinicius

8:52

Jr. and he saved me, so he

8:54

got obviously 13 points. I didn't get

8:56

a captaincy again, really frustrating. I wish I

8:58

had Captain Fini Jr. Obviously I did, I

9:00

was kind of toying with it, but went

9:02

with Kane, then swapped it because

9:05

I kind of did the maths and thought I'm only gambling four

9:07

points here to go to Mbappe and Mbappe did nothing, so I

9:09

ended up with four points. Well, Ciara

9:11

got five, Marts and six, the rest

9:13

are ones and twos. I'm

9:16

down to 4,900 ranked now when I was 1,500 a couple of

9:18

weeks ago, so a bit frustrating. But,

9:22

hey ho, I'm still beating you two, which is

9:24

obviously the most important thing. Looking

9:27

ahead, let's talk about the semifinal

9:31

second legs because obviously we've got what we've

9:33

got coming up. We're going to talk about

9:35

the fixtures, what we should be looking for

9:37

and what we're going to do. So the

9:39

first match we're going to have on Tuesday,

9:41

the 7th of May is PSG versus Dortmund.

9:43

PSG at home, Dortmund are 1-0 up. What

9:46

can we expect from this? What should we be looking

9:48

for? Who should we be getting? Lewis. Hello.

9:54

Yeah, so I think with PSG, obviously

9:57

they've had the rest. kind

10:00

of allowed by the league, the

10:02

French league, you know, they seem to be

10:04

letting PSG postpone their

10:07

league matches to kind of give them a

10:09

full rest and it seems to be working

10:11

because I mean they're at the semi-final so

10:14

at least they've kind of got the help from

10:16

their own league in a way. But

10:18

I mean Dortmund, they recently, they

10:20

won 5-1 today and but a lot

10:22

of their main team was rested. I

10:25

think in fact, I think it was

10:27

only Coble who started that game

10:29

that would have started a charming league game. I mean

10:31

you've got like, Meylin back from

10:33

injury and Roos who played as well, but

10:36

over the night, yeah, the

10:38

main people had a football game. Outstanding there,

10:40

Lewis. Outstanding. You named a couple of people

10:42

and you got both the names wrong for

10:45

pronunciation. Absolutely

10:47

loved you. We've missed this. Well done, well done,

10:49

Louis. Well done, Louis, mate. Yeah,

10:51

top work, Louis. Anyway,

10:53

so yeah, you've got the you've got the you've

10:56

got Sibetze, Brant, Adeyemi

10:59

and Shostavak. They

11:01

all featured but they didn't start

11:03

full rest for Sancho and Fulcri.

11:06

I completely agree with Dan. I

11:09

think Sancho was the best player.

11:12

Again, Humwels, it could have gone either way, I

11:14

think, player of the match with Humwels, but I

11:16

think because he got the clean

11:19

sheet, I think that's maybe what edged

11:21

it. Yeah, I

11:23

think Humwels ended up on, was

11:25

it 12 points and he got quite a lot

11:27

of ball recoveries as

11:29

well, so he did

11:32

quite well. He was absolutely magnificent to be

11:34

fair to him. Did you say that outside

11:36

of the boot right foot, 30 yard,

11:39

splendid, right? Oh my goodness, me. It

11:42

was just an absolute joy to watch

11:44

him. I thought him and Schlottabec were

11:46

both absolutely outstanding. Dopman's

11:49

entire back four were really, really good. 100%,

11:52

and I think we've mentioned this on last week's

11:54

part about Humwels, and I think he was the

11:56

only player to hit. No, I think he had

11:59

99. which was like 20

12:01

yards of second place. So

12:04

yeah, in terms of ball recoveries, I think

12:06

even if you don't think the clean sheet's

12:08

there this week in terms of PSG at

12:10

home, I'd still be tempted to

12:12

possibly go Fammels because remember PSG need

12:15

two goals to actually win that game.

12:17

So I mean,

12:20

it's one of them, I think if

12:23

you're looking at the PSG defense, I

12:26

mean, I'd probably go for Hakeemi, but

12:28

I kind of wouldn't over invest in

12:30

that because Dortmund have the

12:32

1-0 kind of aggregate. So I

12:36

find it tough to back PSG this week. I mean,

12:38

other than the obvious, I think obviously

12:40

I think you have to still have

12:42

Mbappe because he's at home and I

12:44

would probably say own Hakeemi as

12:47

well because again, home, you know, you could

12:49

keep the sheet. For

12:51

the captain on the first day, I guess, I

12:54

mean, you could back a Dortmund player, but that would be sort

12:56

of a bit rogue when they're away

12:58

from home. So you'd think Mbappe

13:00

at home is going to be the most popular captain,

13:02

right? Yeah, I

13:05

mean, this is, yeah, oh yeah,

13:07

100%. He is the standout captain.

13:09

The only issue with that is I think if

13:11

you go, like a lot of

13:14

the main captains are going to be on the second day, aren't they? You

13:16

know, you've got the likes of Kane,

13:18

Vanishes Jr. and stuff like that. So you

13:20

can, I think you can take a punt

13:22

on that first day. Even

13:24

if you're playing it safe, I would

13:27

be tempted to take a punt there.

13:29

I mean, I'm definitely going to take a punt anyway

13:32

and I'll probably be taking a punt on March 2

13:34

as well because I have to at this point. Who

13:36

for? Dallas, day one, Hakeemi?

13:40

Well, I think there's, I think any player is

13:42

a punt other than Mbappe. I think you

13:45

could cut from Sancho. Yeah, but who are you going

13:47

for, Louis? We want to know. Well,

13:51

I'm not too sure yet. I haven't actually laid down

13:53

solid plans, but it's not going to be Mbappe. I think he's

13:55

away. I never, by the way, listeners, I never believe him when

13:57

he says, oh, I don't know. I'm not going to say. just

14:00

doesn't want to tell you because he thinks

14:02

you're gonna copy him why do they want they

14:04

were they don't want to be 20k in the world.

14:06

They want to copy me and I'm 4k in the world

14:08

so there you go. I'm past, I'm

14:10

not gonna say caring but I'm

14:12

past trying to hide my own

14:17

plans now because to

14:20

be quite honest I don't actually know what my transfer plan

14:22

is obviously we'll talk about that as

14:25

we kind of progress but I think in

14:27

that game for me could I see

14:30

PSG in a progression there yes

14:32

but could I see Dortmund holding on to that

14:34

lead also yeah so I think it's a really

14:36

tough game to navigate that I'm not too sure

14:38

I think if you've got

14:40

players in that game I wouldn't be looking

14:42

to sell anyone at all I wouldn't be

14:45

selling you know like Hermo, Sancho, Hakeemie and

14:47

Bapa I wouldn't be selling any of that

14:50

but I think I would be potentially bringing

14:52

in punts you know like

14:54

potentially a double Dortmund defense

14:56

a triple Dortmund defense maybe even a

14:58

PSG double defense I don't I don't

15:00

like that one very much. A triple

15:02

Dortmund defense against PSG away surely surely

15:04

not surely not I mean obviously it's

15:07

a punter. Yeah I

15:09

mean the thing is they've got

15:11

a 1-0 lead their favorites to go for

15:13

at this point obviously because they've got the

15:15

1-0 lead and Dortmund have the ability to

15:17

frustrate don't they even away from home I

15:19

think the last away the

15:22

reverse fixture not the reverse fixture in

15:24

the group stage when Dortmund travels to

15:26

France it was 1-1 and it was

15:28

quite a tough game so yeah

15:30

I think

15:32

I think there's I think there's scope to go

15:35

because I've got double Dortmund defense and

15:37

I was looking at that thinking I wish

15:39

I had triple because you've got the likes

15:41

of I've got so I've got Matson and

15:43

I've got Coble and so Matson

15:45

you've got the attacking returns you've

15:47

got Humwalt who is an absolute beast

15:50

at ball recoveries but then you've also

15:52

got Schlotterbach who has been picking up

15:54

a set of T's also ranked second

15:56

for total ball recoveries as well so

16:00

you're not just investing in double,

16:02

triple defence, you're bringing in defenders who

16:05

have multiple routes to points, so even

16:07

if they don't keep that clean sheet,

16:09

they've got a solid kind of baseline

16:11

of points. So I can guarantee you,

16:13

if Schlotterbach and Matt Termals don't keep

16:15

a clean sheet, they're going to get

16:17

five or six points in that game,

16:20

and that's kind of where I'm coming from with Dortmund. I think

16:23

the Dortmund defence looks attractive this week

16:25

still. Very

16:28

good. Dan, anything else we need to know about this game?

16:31

Yes, I think people should go for Virginia.

16:35

Is that just because you've got a good few points in

16:37

the last three UCL game weeks and didn't do anything before

16:39

that or something more? Didn't

16:41

do anything before that except fall in

16:44

the opening game when Paris beat Dortmund 2-0, and

16:46

he got an assist to clean sheet six ball

16:48

recoveries and play out of the mat. I

16:51

was basing my whole opinion in

16:54

the fact that Newcastle again, battered them 4-1

16:56

and he didn't do anything and

16:58

I think we drew and we should have won away.

17:01

But we bring up that game too much, carry on.

17:03

I feel like we may have to get over that, but yeah, in his

17:06

last three games he's got nine games in five. I'm going to be mentioning

17:08

this all next year as well, just

17:10

to let you know if we carry on. For the rest of our

17:12

lives, I hope, Ed. You

17:14

got nine points against Barcelona when they got

17:17

beat 3-2 because you got nine ball recoveries

17:20

and scored. You got a

17:22

goal outside the box against

17:25

Barcelona in the next fixture, but

17:27

you got another nine ball recoveries

17:30

against Dortmund, so you

17:32

end up getting a five point there, which

17:34

outscored Sancho, Brand, Sabeta, E

17:39

more than doubled and back

17:41

to his points total. So as

17:45

Lewis has correctly highlighted, I think if

17:47

you're struggling for defenders, we'll move on

17:49

to the other game shortly, but

17:51

I definitely think Matt Hummels is a really

17:53

clever pick because of

17:55

these ball recoveries, but in a

17:58

similar fashion, I think Vitti and Ed are Tinya

18:00

is a really clever pick because he's

18:02

a home player on midfield and

18:04

he's likely going to be picking

18:06

up ball recoveries and I just

18:08

think his flow is quite safe

18:10

and I just think he'll pick up

18:12

points where other players won't. I

18:16

currently for example have the three Dortmund lads.

18:18

I don't expect Dortmund to score three

18:21

goals, I don't really expect them to score two goals away

18:24

at the Paris-Sanger man. So

18:26

I'm kind of, I've got the three of them as a

18:28

bit of a spread but when I look at Julian

18:31

Brandt he's not really, I don't think he's

18:33

actually performed very well away from home this

18:36

season. I will have a double check right

18:39

now but that could

18:41

be a player out. Yep,

18:43

home, home, home,

18:45

home. Basically

18:48

every time he came

18:50

up trumps, it's been at home, his

18:52

away has been two, zero because he

18:54

didn't play. One, one, one, three,

18:57

oh no he got a three

19:00

last time. So he's got ones away

19:07

from home, he's

19:09

not really been performing away in the Champions

19:11

League so I think Brandt out, but Tinya

19:14

in might just bag you four points even if

19:16

Tinya does nothing. Good

19:19

shot, good defence of the asset you

19:21

suggested. So are you going to be

19:23

bringing Tinya in? I

19:26

think I might do, yeah. I think it's points that other

19:28

people aren't going to have and I need every point I

19:30

can get at this stage. So I think it might be

19:32

a case of, it

19:34

depends on how I'm feeling but I think Brandt out is probably a

19:37

good shout because the bits I might get a pen

19:39

in, Sancha on the counter looks

19:42

absolutely devastating. I don't know, I might take Sabita out

19:44

and leave Brandt in, I might bottle the branch out

19:46

and just take Sabita out. I will be taking one

19:48

of those Dortmund boys out and I think I will

19:50

be putting Tinya in. It just evens

19:52

out my team a little bit in case PSG get

19:54

through. I'm not sure if one goal is going to

19:56

be enough for Dortmund. I do hope it is, I'd

19:58

love Dortmund. It is interesting isn't it? I think I've

20:00

been looking at thinking, who do I back? And it's

20:02

quite tricky, isn't it? It's not obvious at all. Usually

20:05

a team at this stage might have a convincing lead

20:07

and you think they're definitely going to go through, but

20:09

we're at 2-2 in one game and we're at 1-0

20:11

in the other. You could back

20:14

a Dortmund, go big, and then they go out

20:16

and you're a bit stuffed for the next round.

20:18

So part of the balance is looking what you

20:20

said, sorry, but part of the thing here, isn't

20:22

it, is making sure that whatever happens, you're going

20:25

to be able to field a team in the

20:27

final. Correct. I think

20:29

for me personally, I'm

20:31

going to hang my hat in the other game

20:33

whenever we want on Real Madrid because

20:36

I still think they're favourite

20:38

and now playing at home, and more importantly,

20:41

buying cannot be favourite in any away game,

20:43

I don't think. Just

20:47

to obviously touch upon a bit to that, I

20:50

didn't, when I

20:52

was talking about Dortmund before, but

20:54

he actually had two big chances

20:57

in that game. I thought he should

20:59

have actually scored. Yeah.

21:03

Would have been a Sancho and a Brandt

21:05

assist. I was fuming. Fuming.

21:08

Yeah, because I had both of them as well, and

21:10

I thought Sancho was really promising, but also obviously, so

21:12

bits of getting into those positions anyway and shooting, I

21:14

think is a huge positive. A lot of people are

21:16

probably going to think, oh, I'm going to stay away

21:18

from him now, but he's

21:21

actually getting those chances still.

21:24

So yeah, I think he's still a really good

21:27

asset. I agree with you a little bit of

21:29

that about Brandt. I think when I was deciding

21:31

which of the two free Dortmund

21:33

midfielders I was going to go for, Brandt

21:36

felt a little bit boring, whereas Sancho, you

21:38

know, exciting and Zabica obviously had the

21:41

holes. So yeah, totally agree with that.

21:45

When I'm actually looking at Zabica away

21:48

from home, he's picking up ball recoveries at

21:50

the very least. He also has a couple

21:52

of assists away from home. So

21:54

I think if we're trying to use

21:56

the past to project the future for the season, I

22:00

think my head's telling me, keep

22:02

Sancho for his devastation on the counter attack and

22:05

how he played in the last game. Maybe

22:09

Brandt is the one to go. Very

22:14

good, very interesting. Okay, right, let's move on

22:17

to what we're going to be doing, okay?

22:19

Because obviously, wait, I fact, just

22:21

an announcement first, and then little small announcement that

22:23

harks onto a bigger announcement that we'll make in

22:25

the last pod we do, which is for the

22:27

final. Oh, we'll probably do two more, a preview

22:29

and then a review of the season, I imagine.

22:33

We have changed our handle on

22:35

X from fantasy

22:38

UCL pod to

22:40

UEFA fantasy pod. And

22:43

that can give you a hint as to what the announcement

22:45

might be. You can work it out. But

22:48

just to let you know, if you are going to follow us on

22:50

Twitter at UEFA fantasy pod. Dan, have

22:52

you got something to say? No, you're happy? Everyone

22:54

happy with that? I did not consider that. Yeah,

22:57

absolutely. Celebrate in the background, Ed. Celebrate in the

22:59

background. So you can make of that what you

23:01

will, but we will explain all in the next

23:03

podcast. But anyway, let's move on. So

23:05

what are we going to be doing? So,

23:09

Lewis and Dan, my first question to you, and just

23:11

answer yes or no on this, will you have 15

23:13

players going into the leg two, a squad of 15?

23:17

Lewis? No,

23:19

absolutely not. Dan? No, definitely not.

23:22

I will, because I'm a flipping legend.

23:25

For free transfers, I can get to 15, so I'm pretty happy

23:27

with that. But I'll keep you more. Just a question. Like,

23:30

is it worth having two goalkeepers over a better outfield

23:32

player that you might want to

23:39

swap out because you think they're going to get

23:41

tanked? Yeah, but you see, the

23:43

people I'm taking out are all black, so who's not going

23:45

to play anyway. So, Mez will

23:47

take him out. He's an expensive keeper. Foden, who's a

23:49

pretty expensive midfielder, who's not going to play, so Mez

23:51

will take him out. And

23:54

Cubasi. And when I take those three out, I can basically

23:56

bring in anyone I want. It doesn't matter. for

24:00

someone who's playing. So I get a 15. Yeah,

24:03

I'm going to, well, this is it for me. I'm

24:05

going to keep summer on my bench because

24:07

I don't want to keep – I'm just not bothered

24:10

at all by them. But if you – how many

24:12

players do you have not playing at all? One,

24:16

two, three, four currently. Ah,

24:19

okay. With free chances you couldn't do it anyway, but

24:21

you're still choosing to not do summer – Even then

24:23

I would choose – I think I'd choose not to

24:25

because at the minute, I've

24:27

got three defenders not playing. Kibasi,

24:29

Diaz and Stones. But Kibasi at

24:31

his price, I'm going to keep

24:33

them for the final anyway. It just means I can 100%

24:35

afford everyone if I need to. I

24:39

don't really know if I'd need the money anyway, if I'm

24:41

being brutally honest, but I'd rather be in that situation than

24:43

not. But also you're affected, aren't you,

24:46

because you want to take out Kane and bring

24:48

in Finney Jr. because you don't already have it.

24:50

Yeah, I want to take out Kane bringing Vinicius

24:52

Jr. and I'm obviously

24:54

also contemplating one

24:57

of those Dortmund midfielders out for Virginia. I might

24:59

actually have to bottle that to be fair because

25:01

I don't think he's worth a minus four. It

25:04

just depends on whether I want to bring in – whether

25:07

I even want to make all these defensive changes

25:09

given the situation, given

25:12

do I really think there's going to be that many

25:15

clean sheets again anyway. Probably not. Okay, coming down, what are

25:17

you going to do then? Do you know yet or is

25:19

it still a bit up in the air? Well, I'm recording

25:21

this on Saturday. I don't

25:25

know what I'm going to do yet. I'm

25:29

thinking obviously I have thought of a tenure. I

25:32

definitely want Vinicius Jr. 100% and Ederman. And

25:37

I would like more Real Madrid players. I

25:39

think they would prepare better for the final. And

25:42

I think they might

25:44

keep a clean sheet against Bayern, you know. They

25:47

might actually do it at home. Bayern

25:49

away. Yeah, you

25:51

know what, yeah. So basically, I've

25:53

kind of got five

25:56

transfers I want to make. The question is how

25:58

many of those do I make? the

26:00

worth of hits or am I just

26:02

going to make three and be done with

26:04

it? Realistically I could just go Kane to

26:07

Vinicius Jr and then take

26:09

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26:11

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27:14

talk to us. What are you planning to do? Well

27:18

I mean there's a few kind

27:20

of factors I kind of need

27:22

to consider. Obviously Courtois is back

27:25

for Real Madrid now. He started

27:27

today so Loonan will not play.

27:30

So if you own Loonan obviously as

27:32

you do and other people do. Yeah

27:34

he's he won't play. That's seriously annoying because I

27:36

did not know that. So now no I will

27:39

not have 15 players I'll have 14. Well

27:42

you might have 13 because also Eric

27:44

Dier got injured today. Oh

27:46

it's all falling apart. It's all

27:48

falling apart. Guerrero

27:51

got injured as well today for anyone that's got him.

27:54

Yeah yeah I mean Bayern kind of

27:57

Bayern rotated quite a lot today.

28:00

I don't think with he'll

28:03

be ready down. Obviously you're right there. Guerrero

28:05

got injured. He was offered the 17th minute.

28:09

So if you brought him in for a pen, then

28:11

he's out. I need to double check the Eric Dyer

28:13

injury, but

28:16

I'm pretty sure he's out. I don't

28:18

think De Litz back either for

28:21

Bayern, which means that Kim and Jay could

28:24

play again, which

28:27

I think is good news for Real Madrid. Because

28:29

the thing is with Kim and Jay, he's in

28:31

poor, so he's kind of going to go into

28:33

these games overcompensating. And I think that's what happened

28:36

in the last game. You know, he made a

28:38

couple of bad calls. He was a bit aggressive. He

28:40

went into moves that went into tackles that he

28:42

didn't have to do instead of staying patient and confident.

28:44

So I think that's what Kim

28:46

and Jay's problem was. But that's also really relevant because

28:48

I think Real Madrid are going to score some goals

28:50

here. And I think Venezia's junior is as well. So

28:53

for me, I need to really think about what

28:55

I'm going to do. I

28:58

do think Bayern are going to score, though. I

29:00

think we could see a

29:02

similar scoreline again because that

29:05

kind of attack of Kane, Gnarbury, Sarni,

29:07

M Real

29:11

Madrid haven't shown me much

29:13

to suggest that they're

29:15

good. Obviously, they've kept quite a

29:17

few clean sheets in their own league, which is

29:19

fine. But the strength of

29:21

the La League is kind of questionable at

29:23

times, isn't it? Well, mostly. And

29:26

we've seen in the we've seen the Champions League as

29:29

well. They've also struggled for clean for clean sheets. So

29:31

I do think that for

29:33

me, I couldn't sell Hurricane. I

29:36

mean, if I if I had to kind of free attackers,

29:39

I would maybe sell one, but I think

29:41

I would stick with Hurricane with Yala or

29:43

Hurricane and Sarni, whichever kind of couple you've

29:46

got. I just think I like. Although

29:50

it is, although I do think maybe Real Madrid

29:52

progress, I also think you have to think about

29:54

what's ahead of you. And

29:57

think about selling them. Obviously

30:00

Kane is, he's got, I think he was the first 50

30:03

plus goal contribution to season squad. He scored

30:05

again today, didn't he, as well. So he

30:07

just feels inevitable at the moment, so I

30:09

just feel like I don't

30:12

want to foul him. But I also

30:15

need to kind of think about what I'm going to do

30:17

with Mini Junior as well. I think there's going to be

30:19

goals, I can't see any clean sheets apart from maybe

30:22

in PSG and Dortmund. I think there could

30:24

be a clean sheet for one of the

30:26

teams there. Yeah, I really want to kind

30:29

of think outside the box this week and

30:31

go a little bit differential. I

30:33

think going into this week with

30:35

the team that I have is differential enough

30:37

because again I've got Rodrigo,

30:40

I've got Val Verde, albeit

30:43

that the Dortmund double defence will be last

30:45

differential this week. I could just start a

30:47

third. Some guy

30:49

on Twitter had like five Dortmund

30:52

defenders. It's that Sammy

30:54

guy. There's always a guy on Twitter,

30:57

isn't there? No, it's the same guy. I

30:59

absolutely loved that. Ed, it

31:01

reminded me of you for the Chelsea Man

31:03

City final when didn't you go for five

31:05

Chelsea defenders? Yeah, everyone, yeah, yeah, I'm glad

31:08

you remember that, yeah. I was like 3,000

31:10

in the, no, I was like 8,000

31:13

in the world and everyone was saying City were going to

31:15

walk over Chelsea and all this jazz and I went for

31:17

five Chelsea defenders and I had finished 800

31:19

in the world. I've hyped him up now,

31:22

haven't you? This is perfect. Hey look, I

31:24

am a fair man. When someone does well

31:26

at something, I will pat them

31:28

on the back and say well done, you deserve it.

31:31

When someone is getting

31:33

too cocky, I will drag them back down

31:35

to worth. Well, the irony

31:37

of this whole podcast of course is because everyone puts in

31:39

their questions and you two answer them whereas I'm beating both

31:41

of you and I don't answer them so, you know, that's

31:43

the irony. Anyway, let's... Such

31:47

irony. Only people can see the look on

31:50

Ed's stupid little

31:52

sixth sense boy looking face.

31:55

Oh, funny. Ed Wright

31:57

looks like little boy from the sixth sense today. Right, we've

31:59

got two. We've got two minutes, we need

32:01

to end. Thank you very much. Is there any

32:03

last-minute tips? Lewis and Dan. Yeah,

32:07

I think if you're looking to hold

32:09

rank, then

32:11

captain, and boring players like,

32:14

you know, not boring, but talent players like finishes junior

32:16

and bar pay and all that sort of stuff. I

32:18

think if you're going to go different, you

32:21

know, you're looking at a bit to humbles, you

32:24

know, those type of players, that's the only way you're

32:26

going to gain rank and obviously go and have your

32:28

own life at Dortmund. Devan,

32:31

Navy. Brilliant.

32:33

Dan, anything to say? Any final words? Not that

32:35

you're about to die, but... My

32:39

advice is worthless at this stage, Ed.

32:41

Just enjoy yourself. Enjoy the games. Like,

32:43

people are getting up, like, hanging

32:46

their emotions on the games at this

32:48

point when we're witnessing the

32:51

last-ever formatting of this competition the way

32:53

that it is now. And

32:57

probably, like, some of the most exciting quarters

32:59

and semi-finals we've ever had, like, enjoy

33:02

them. That would be my advice. Brilliant.

33:05

Right. Well, we'll be back. Good luck,

33:07

everyone. We'll be back before the final,

33:09

and we will make that big announcement

33:11

as well on what we're going to be doing

33:13

over the summer. You can probably guess. But if

33:15

you're going to follow us on X, you can now

33:17

follow us at UEFA Fantasy Pod. Let me just check...

33:20

Double-check that's right, because I only just changed it, like,

33:22

two seconds ago. Yeah, UEFA Fantasy Pod. I thought I'd

33:24

grab it before it's gone. You're

33:26

saying big this summer, which is great fun. Goodbye, everyone.

33:28

Say goodbye, Lewis and Sam. Goodbye,

33:31

everyone. you