There's Only One Place to Begin ... Arminia Bielefeld!

Stadio: A Football Podcast

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

There really is only one place to begin this episode, and it’s with Arminia Bielefeld’s 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen to get through to the DFB-Pokal final for the first time in its history (03:42). Musa and Ryan chat about the third-tier side knocking out the current holders, the fourth Bundesliga side they’ve beaten on their way to the final, and their opponents—Stuttgart—who beat Leipzig 3-1 to head to Berlin. In Spain, it was Real Madrid and Barcelona who progressed to set up a Clásico Copa del Rey final (13:10). Real Madrid served up an eight-goal thriller against Real Sociedad on Tuesday, whereas Barcelona were efficient in their 1-0 win at Atleti on Wednesday. There’s also a quick shout for the cups in Italy and France, before they round up the midweek Premier League games (24:26). Hosts: Ryan Hunn and Musa Okwonga Producer: Ryan Hunn Additional Production: Patris Gordon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the studyadio podcast. I'm Missa Kwonga.
0:25.2	I'm Ryan Hunt. Ryan, how you doing?
0:27.2	I'm right, thanks man. How are you?
0:28.9	I'm good, I'm good. Calm, not chaotic, unlike some of these...
0:33.3	Wow.
0:34.3	Cup semi-finals.
0:35.1	I was going to say just, I thought you were going to say, unlike some of these politicians.
0:42.5	Yeah, actually, I've decided to impose a tariff on you.
0:45.2	Have you?
0:45.5	I know that, you know, waves arms frantically around and doesn't want to get into that
0:50.9	because otherwise we both end up just like crying into a, I don't even know, right?
0:57.4	I know, I know, I know. I know. I did not need that guy to explain what reciprocal meant to me.
1:01.6	I did not need it. Yeah, I never want to hear that word again. The world needs to seriously just take like a week off.
1:08.0	It needs an international break. It really does. It really does. Totally.
1:13.0	Anyway, we hope everyone stays safe and well. Yes, yes. In this quite exhausting time.
1:19.7	Would you like a bit of admin as a soothing barbed? Yes. My interest is in some admin.
1:27.3	Listen, if only global governance was as reliable as the Stadio admin,
1:33.0	the admin is, it's just a slight change to write his house next week.
1:37.9	Ian and I are going to record on Wednesday so we can talk about Arsenal, Real Madrid.
1:43.1	You and I, Staddeo as usual.
1:44.9	Yes.
1:45.6	And there's no crossways this week, but go check counter-pressed.
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