Hello Rank Squad!

Champions League Takeaway returns for Matchweek Four of this season's League Stage, and we returned to plenty of stories and redemption tales on Tuesday. We open up by talking about Manchester United, out of nowhere, putting on a second half display full of character to come back from 2-0 down and beat Roma 3-2; as well as an astonishing performance from PSG at El Madrigal, where they broke records galore en route to smashing a self-destructing Villarreal 6-0.

In Part Two we discuss Barcelona returning to winning ways in the competition with a 3-0 win against Aston Villa, where Unai Emery's men dropped an early clanger and never truly recovered; whilst Bayern were incredibly impressive down the road in Madrid, keeping Atleti at arm's length as they won 2-0 even with a heavily depleted squad.

As ever in Part Three we round things up with everything else, including Inter's demolition of Feyenoord at De Kuip - inspired by the brilliance of Piotr Zielinski, a Galatasaray win over Stuttgart preceded by social media drama, Sporting edging Shakhtar in a really fun game at the Bridge, LASK hammering Slovan Bratislava (and giving them an unwanted record in the process) and a bitty 0-0 draw between Bodø/Glimt and Lille in the Arctic Circle.

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