The Champions League returns. But whats going on at Freiburg and Sevilla?

Published: Sept. 6, 2022, 12:20 p.m.

Ahead of matchday 1 across European competition, it\u2019s Jimbo, it\u2019s James Horncastle, it\u2019s Raphael Honigstein, it\u2019s Julien Laurens and it\u2019s Alvaro Romeo on the Totally Football Show.\n\nPSG face Juventus for the first time in Champions League history. The under-fire Allegri has Juve playing 60s football. And that\u2019s not a good thing.\n\nWill Man City run riot against a Sevilla side hovering above the relegation zone in La Liga? Hear why this sorry state of affairs is Monchi\u2019s fault.\n\nPlenty of feel-good stories in Germany where Eintracht Frankfurt prepare for their Champions League bow and Freiburg and Union Berlin fly high in the Bundesliga.\n\nWill new-look Napoli heap more misery on Liverpool in Naples on Wednesday? There\u2019s plenty of love for Luciano Spalletti.\n\nPlus Ben Yedder\u2019s bowels and the Martin Braithwaite redemption story.\n\nRUNNING ORDER:\xa0\n\n\u2022 PART 1: Moment of the weekend (02.00)\n\u2022 PART 2a: PSG v Juventus preview (09.30)\n\u2022 PART 2b: Spurs v Marseille preview (19.00)\xa0\n\u2022 PART 3a: Inter v Bayern preview and Frankfurt prepare for UCL bow (22.30)\n\u2022 PART 3b: Freiburg top the Bundesliga (30.00)\n\u2022 PART 4a: How to keep up with the wealth of the Premier League (34.00)\n\u2022 PART 4b: Napoli v Liverpool preview (41.00)\n\u2022 PART 4c: Udinese smash Roma in La Liga (45.00)\n\u2022 PART 5: Barca smash Sevilla in La Liga (50.00)\n\nSIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC TODAY FOR \xa31 A MONTH FOR THE FIRST 6 MONTHS\n\u2022\xa0theathletic.com/totally\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices