 All right, welcome back. It's still the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. It's Friday and we are talking sport as well. One of Mercy's favorite day of the week. Mercy, mercy, mercy me. I don't know why you think that it's okay. Favorite day of the week. Yes, it is. That's because I was born on a Friday and that's it. And Friday just feels like, I don't know the feeling, but we just need to move on to the next topic this morning. We'll just be having an update. What's going on with the UF Champions League? I mean, who stands a chance of winning the trophy or taking the trophy? We do have a sports journalist who joins the conversation this morning. Monday Thomas, it's good to have you join us. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you this morning. It's quite fantastic what is happening in the UF Champions League and I can't wait to get on with it. So bring us up to speed. I mean, what's going on right now? And look into the clubs that are still standing. You have Man City, Liverpool, among others. Who do you think stands a chance of getting the trophy? Well, believe me or not, I think this is the perfect pool for the semi-final as the road to Paris continues. We have Manchester City, Liverpool, Real Madrid, and as well as Villarreal. I'd like to start with the list, with all due respect to all the Yellow Soap Marine fans all over the world. I'd like to tame them as the list. Although they are the most honourated, but I think they're also the most devastating. They've got a European specialist as a coach. Unai Emery, fantastic manager who won the Europa League back to back. It qualified Arsenal to the Europa League in 2019. Unfortunately, he lost. And last year, he won Villarreal the first major title, which is the Europa League against Manchester United in the final where, of course, it ended in penalties. So Villarreal, we've seen them do great things against Juventus right there at the Turin stadium. And also, we saw what they did at the Allianz Arena. They might be the most honourated, but I would advise team to try to overrate them a little bit because when they have a specialist as a like Unai Emery, a lot is meant to happen. Let's move to Liverpool, which is an incredible team so far this season. We saw that 3-3 draw against Benfica. And I'm very sure Jürgen Klopp came out to apologise for starting, for having set changes from the team that we saw in that mega title shipper in the English Premier League. They've got informed players, Mohamed Salah in Liverpool. Everyone is scoring. Luiz Diaz, Samuel Mane, and as well as Mohamed Salah. They are on hand to win their seventh Europa Champions League title. They've already won six and they are perfectly poised to take on Villarreal. For Real Madrid, of course, it goes without saying the most successful side of God, Karen Benjamin, Benfica's junior, who is doing the business for them. They've got Carlo Angelotti as well. So I think it's going to be an incredible on the 26th and on the 27th of May when we talk about the semi-finals. But let's talk about Manchester City. In my word, they are the Europa Champions League desperate. Pep Guardiola has spent over £1.5 billion, forgive me, over £1.5 billion to hand Manchester City the Europa Champions League. We saw that in the last performance some months ago in Porto where he lost to Jürgen Klopp in the 2021 Europa Champions League final. So he's desperate. He wants to win it at all costs. But of course, I'm going for Liverpool because to win a title, to win games, you need to have a strong defence and you need to have a strong attack as well. Liverpool have an unbridgeable defence and a very devastating forward. So like I said, Liverpool, everyone is scoring. Mohsenal can score. Sadi Mane can score. Luiz Diaz can score. Diogo Jota can score. Bobby Firmino can score. In the back, they've got Virgil and you know for certain that he's one of the best. So I'm tipping Liverpool to win the seven UEFA Champions League title. So you don't think that Manchester City can match the energy of Liverpool to win the UEFA Champions League? We saw what happened to Manchester City some months ago in Spain at the 1-0 Portetano stadium where Leicic Madrid started playing. They went to hiding. They defended for the first time I saw Pep Guardiola defend. So that means that team can be beaten anytime with a resident team. And of course, Liverpool have done what it takes to beat any team in this semi-finals and of course make it to the finals and they'll certainly clinch it in my opinion. Thank you so much. All right. Monday, Thomas for being part of the show this morning. We do appreciate your thoughts and we look forward to having more of you share great ideas and thoughts as regards football and sporting world. Thank you so much for having me. Once again, it was a pleasure to have you host me. Let's look forward to doing this again. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. Monday, Thomas, it's as though there is a Liverpool Manchester City final which will be inevitable. All right. We'll see how all of that plays out. But that's the size of the show for today. This Good Friday morning. We trust you would have yourself a wonderful holiday. Friday, Monday have been declared public holidays. My name is Justin Acadone. And I am Messia Boko, but if you missed out on any part of the conversation, it's all right to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and do subscribe to YouTube channel what plus CB Africa and plus CB Africa lifestyle. Many thanks for watching. Have a great day.