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What a week in the Champions League quarter-final second legs! We take a look at some of the stories from those games in this week's Learn English Through Football Podcast. We have a tricky quiz question, and also introduce some English for football phrases, including 'to suffer a defeat'. We also have some exciting games to look forward to in our predictions section including Tottenham v Manchester City, at the end of the show. For those wishing to improve their English, there's a transcript to the show below and if you have questions or comments, email us at: admin@languagecaster.com (Damian=DF, Damon=DB). Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2018 Tottenham versus Manchester City DB: You are listening to Languagecaster's football-language podcast. Hi there everyone! Welcome to the show for all those who love football and wish to improve their English skills. My name is Damon and I live in Tokyo where spring has sprung and more importantly, my team's season kicked off this weekend! Football, don't you just love it! Down the line in London is Damian, and I wonder how he is doing? Damian? How are things? DF: Hello Damon and hello to all our listeners. Well done on your first game of the season, how did it go? DB: 2-0 victory! DF: Did you score? DB: I'm a right back! No, I didn't. DF: Well done for the clean sheet though. DB: Yes. DF: Well, finally spring has arrived here in London too with blue skies and sunshine this morning. Ah, finally! What a week of football we have had so far... DB: Indeed. DF: ...the quarter-finals of the two European competitions, that's the Champions League and the Europa League, were amazing. And there are some huge games taking place this weekend too including the Ruhr derby in Germany, the Rome derby in Italy, the Old Firm derby in Scotland, a top-of-the-table clash in Portugal, Man City against Tottenham - wow! Talking of which, Damon, did you watch the Liverpool v Manchester City Champions League second leg? DB: Oh I did - from behind the sofa! It was nail-biting stuff, but I'm bloody well over the moon, the Reds are through to the semis, even if they face a tricky tie against AS Roma. DF: Yes, all games at this stage of the competition are going to be tough but the Roma game will bring back happy memories of the 1984 European Cup final between the two sides when your team won on penalties. DB: They certainly will and of course 1977 too. DF: Of course. Yes, we'll be talking more about the Champions League and Europa League quarter-finals in our review section, which is coming up after this little message. You're listening to languagecaster.com (in Italian) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly DB: Yes you are listening to languagecaster.com. And we'd love more messages in as many different languages as possible, especially with the 2018 World Cup coming up, or if you want to let us know your name, who you support and add 'you are listening to languagecaster.com', do that and send it to us at admin@languagecaster.com. Right, now time for some news from the footballing week in the good, the bad and the ugly. Damian, what was good? Good DF: OK, I'm going to start with the Champions League and with Roma, who pulled off an amazing come back in the second leg of their quarter-final tie against Barcelona. Down 4-1 from the first leg, Roma overwhelmed Barcelona 3-0 to go through on the away goals rule. Of course, they scored one at the Nou Camp in Barcelona, meaning that although the two result of the two legs finished 4-4, Roma went through. It was simply a remarkable game. DB: Yes. DF: But that wasn't the end of the European comebacks as both Salzburg and Marseille staged amazing comebacks of their own in their Europa League second leg matches. The Austrian team RB Salzburg were 4-2 down from their first leg against Italian team Lazio and then went further behind after the team from Rome scored an away goal but an amazing four-goal blitz in 20 minutes saw the Austrian team qualifying 6-5 o