There is an organized but chaotic sensation in TNT sports studies only two hours before they embark on an innovative television event in football. Wherever he will look, there are floods of people in a mission to make history.
The production team has been preparing for tonight since September, but there is still the feeling that they were entering the unknown. Never before has a broadcaster addressed 18 games of the Champions League at the same time.
This is the most crowded that the TNT Sports writing room has ever been. The five studies are in use to ensure that each emotion and each spill are covered from all possible angles.
The producers are hurried as if it were the day, while the technicians are planted in their desks ensuring that everything is ready. All those involved are as prepared as they can be.
While each show is of great importance, it is a monumental night for the objective team, the XTra team, which has the task of showing each objective that flies in all matches. Spoiler Alert: There were many of them.
Matt Smith's quartet, Ally McCoist, Karen Carney and James Horncastle have the little enviable task of covering the dramatic night. They hug the butcher shop and it shows at all times.
There were 64 goals scored in the phase of the Champions League League phase, the last night, with Man City scraping the play-offs
The TNT Sports goals program showed each goal in the 18 games played on Wednesday
The Mail Sport took behind the access of the TNT Sports coverage of The Crazy Night, speaking with (from left to right) Karen Carney, James Horncastle, Matt Smith and Ally McCoist
Before the show, I have the Gus Show Xtra team and instantly it is clear to see why they have gathered. The chemistry between them is out of the lists.
The laugh fills the room in which we have been carried out for a group interview before the registration button is pressed. It is almost as if we were in a podcast, the atmosphere is very relaxed.
Outside of the camera, McCoist is exactly as he does: a charismatic, energetic and charming man. From the moment he walks through the door, there is a smile on his face.
You would think that wandering through an unwavering territory, as was the show on Wednesday night, he would feel discouraging for anyone, right? Well, not McCoist and Co. would not be confused with thinking that they are about to go to a group vacation with how comfortable they are.
The former Rangers striker has been a defender of the new format of the Champions League since its inception. In every opportunity he has, McCoist sings his praises, and was not different towards the last night.
“I love it,” McCoist tells Mail Sport Live from behind the scene in the Xtra goals program in TNT Sports. 'I entered that very open and I really enjoyed it. I think this night will be the test in the pudding, I really do it.
On Wednesday night I was up to the bomb, it was like a movie. That can be a Cringy phrase, which I do not like to use even at the best moments, but it is true with respect to the exciting events of the group phase climax of the Champions League.
It was a night full of drama and consequence, something rarely provided in the last group phase game of the old format.
The Xtra Show goals program spoke with the Mail Sport Sport about the new champions League format
McCoist is exactly as he does in the camera: a charismatic, energetic and charming man
There were 64 goals in the 18 games, only four less than the prediction of McCoist, and each game saw a marked goal.
Manchester City survived a scare against the Brugge club to scrape in the play-off and avoid an unlikely early way out. Meanwhile, Aston Villa came out at the top of six roller mountain goals against Celtic to reserve a place in the qualifying stages.
The objectives show that the Xtra team barely had time to breathe, but Smith, who presented the program, sailed for experts in the revised nature of the night.
It is not a regular fact for McCoist to be in the program, it is usually planted in the comments team of a prominent game. His only appearance in the study has now changed the way he will see football forever.
“It was a bit chaotic sometimes because there were goals everywhere,” McCoist said. 'I don't think I can see only the only game in my house, on my sofa, never again. It was sensational.
The night was a resounding success for TNT Sports, they have reported that it was the best performance of the Xtra goals program.
He really showed himself at night. Once all producers and editors took their places and the sign in the air got red, everything worked as smoothly. It was very fun to see it.
The program dealt with the overwhelming amount of action admirably, transmitting the best moments to spectators at home in a style that was completely digestible. An unprecedented sports combat night will look largely in a positive light.
TNT Sports presenter Matt Smith sailed by experts the revised nature of the night
The Xtra goals program had access to several screens to ensure that each game was covered
'I am immensely proud of our production team on the site and also in the study where we present matches and the goals show. The goal program that Xtra took it out of the park, 'Scott Young, SVP Sports Sports by Warner Bros., content and production and operations, tells Mail Sport.
'The team tonight covered 64 goals, history, the danger of teams particularly in the city, what roller coaster was that. That was the type of danger we really expected that this format would bring '.
It has definitely led it to another level. He has taken the narration of stories at another level because he not only reports the score, but is informing the story of the Champions League in one night and the successes of Say Aston Villa.
'He has raised the football coverage to a new level, has raised the narration of stories around football matches to a new level, and our teams did a phenomenal job. The planning of this has been happening since day one (in September).
“After tonight, if there is more of that, bring it.”
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