{"id":431197,"date":"2026-01-23T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431197\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:45:10","slug":"football-daily-euro-leagues-champions-league-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431197\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Daily &#8211; Euro Leagues: Champions League underdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for 29 days<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Steve Crossman is joined by Guillem Ballague, Julien Laurens &amp; Rafa Honigstein following a week of surprise in Europe.<br \/>\nAfter their shock win over Manchester City, Bodo Glimt&#8217;s &#8216;Culture Coach&#8217;, Bjorn Mannsverk, lifts the lid on what has created their winning environment.\u00a0<br \/>\nFrom one underdog in the Champions League to another; Qarabag are a draw at Anfield away from the play-offs. Does their win over Frankfurt highlight a wider issue in German football?\u00a0<br \/>\nPlus, Marcel Van de Kraan\u00a0of De Telegraaf joins to discuss Erik Ten Hag&#8217;s appointment as technical director at Twente and the latest from the Van Persie dynasty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Timecodes:<br \/>\n8&#8217;17 Bodo Glimt&#8217;s Culture Coach Bjorn Mannsverk<br \/>\n18&#8217;38 Qarabag<br \/>\n24&#8217;12 German football<br \/>\n31&#8217;30 Marcel Van de Kraan joins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0mwmxw6\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of Euro Leagues: Champions League underdogs\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for 29 days Steve Crossman is joined by Guillem Ballague, Julien Laurens &amp; Rafa Honigstein following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-431197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}