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The Episode 27 of the show covers the Eredivisie champions FC Twente and their coach, Steve McClaren – who went from a zero to hero after getting Twente a Champions League spot in his first season and helped them become the national champions for the first time since 1926.

Over in Germany, Bayern Munich are becoming the champions with their domestic cup final and the Champions League final coming up. It is their chance of scoring a treble. Speaking of Champions League, Andy moves on to England and France where the race for a Champions League is on like anything.

In England, Tottenham and Manchester City are fighting for the Champions League qualifiers and only a point separates them. Whereas in France, Lyon are two points behind Lille, who are sitting on the Champions League qualifiers spot at the moment.

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In Episode 26, Andy Brassell talks about the second legs of the semifinals of Europe’s biggest and second biggest club competition – a.k.a. the Champions League and the Europa League.

Inter Milan and Bayern Munich have marched on to the finals defeating Barcelona and Lyon respectively. On the other hand, Atletico Madrid and Fulham defeat Liverpool and Hamburg SV to land a place in the final. Of course we all know, Inter and Bayern will play the Champions League final and Atletico and Fulham will play the Europa League final.

Andy talks about the heroics of the Inter Milan squad who defended their 3-1 lead from the first leg really well and how Ivica Olic’s second leg hat-trick in the Lyon home ground helped Bayern cruise through. In the second tier of Europe, Atletico Madrid lost 2-1 at Anfield but they got the all important away goal after going 2-0 down in the extra time.

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In Episode 13, Andy Brassell talks about the Milan derby and how Inter were not looking so good in their previous matches whereas Milan had picked up on some much needed form; especially Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho is getting back to his form that he enjoyed while he was in Barcelona but he is not quite there yet.

Then Andy talks about English football, mainly about the progress of Leeds in the FA Cup and the Whites in general in the 2000s. Followed by the goings on at Portsmouth this season are pretty similar to what happened with Leeds a few years ago; and the possible consequences of the financial insanities like £80,000 a week for John Utaka who does not even make it to the first team.

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This article refers to an earlier version of the Champions League draw. Go to the latest Champions League draw article.

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Liverpool-Arsenal and Lyon-Bordeaux grabbed the headlines in league football in Europe and Andy discusses both games on this episode of the Soccerlens show. Andy evaluates the actual impact of Arsenal’s win and by extension the gap that has developed between the big two and the rest of the league. There’s also a look at Lyon’s inability to stamp their authority in the French league this season and the implications of that for their rivals.

The centerpiece of today’s show is a mock draw for the 2010 Champions League second round – in preview of this Friday’s actual Champions League draw. 16 teams, 8 spots and a large number of possible permutations. After you watch the show, feel free to check out the possible permutations in our Champions League Second Round Preview and make your predictions below in the comments.

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Andy’s Champions League Draw:

Porto v Bordeaux, CSKA Moscow v Chelsea, Inter Milan v Manchester United, Lyon v Real Madrid, AC Milan v Barcelona, Stuttgart v Fiorentina, Olympiakos v Sevilla, Bayern Munich v Arsenal.

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This week’s episode focuses on the title races across Europe, with the first stop being the Premier League title race and the United v Chelsea game. Manchester United gave a strong showing at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, possibly one of their best performances at the Bridge post-Ranieri and despite the defeat all signs point to an open, three-way title race.

We also look at the amazing 5-5 Lyon v Marseille game, Ajax’s goal-scoring record and FC Twente’s run of undefeated games. All this and more on this week’s Soccerlens Show with Andy Brassell, including answers to several readers’ questions.

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This week’s episode focuses on the Premier League relegation battle (it’s already started), and the spotlight is on Portsmouth (who lost their first seven games, just beat Wigan 4-0 and are still bottom of the table) and Hull (who have been lurching from weakness to weakness, but still have faith in their unfortunately named manager). Who is more ‘shit’ – Pompey or Hull? Andy has the answer.

We also look at the form of Braga in the Portuguese league – Braga recently beat Benfica 2-0 – (also see this excellent article on Braga by Karl Donnelly) and finally Andy looks at Valencia, who are battening down the hatches and working hard to qualify for the Champions League.

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This week’s episode focuses on the swine flu outbreak at Paris Saint-Germain, which led to a late postponement of the PSG-Marseille game that riled not only the supporters of both sides (and led to some unsavoury scenes between the two sets of fans) but also Marseille themselves, who were adamant that the match should have gone ahead. Andy gives us the inside track on the mistakes made by the LFP and PSG.

There’s also a Q&A segment which features a discussion on the future prospects of young Portuguese midfielders Joao Moutinho and Miguel Veloso, and a look at Rafael Benitez and why he should stick to the footballing side of management and leave player transfers to others.

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