Pete Radovich, the coordinating producer of the UEFA Champions League coverage on CBS Sports, is reflecting on how he came to realise that the network’s Champions League Today studio now owns the global conversation on major nights of European football.

Three days, 18 games, a boatload of high-grade performers: there really hasn't been a shortfall of options for our first Champions League team of the week. We'll be playing 4-4-2 this time, partly because it's the formation that lets you get the broadest sweep of options into your XI but mostly because I watched "Mike Bassett: England Manager" last week.