Hello, welcome back to full time with Meg Lynn Hand for a second time this week.

You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network.

I'm Meg, your host, and I'm a national staff writer at the Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team.

The internationals have returned for the rest of the Challenge Cup.

Gotham, FC, and North Carolina provided one of the best games of the tournament

so far on Tuesday night. The Olympic tournament draw is in. It's also two days after we posted

an entire episode about the European Super League, and the Super League is already no more. So to help me

make sense of all of this and more is Kaylin Kyle. She has been on the call

for so many of these NWSEL Challenge Cup games so far. So we've got plenty to talk about on today's show.

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Here is all of the latest news for you. So Chelsea kept their two-point lead on the women's

Super League table thanks to a two-two draw with Manchester City on Wednesday afternoon,

or at least Wednesday afternoon in the States anyway. This does leave open the door for some potential

intrigue based on the final games of the season. Chelsea is playing Tottenham away and then

Redding at home, Manchester City host Birmingham City, and then play away at West Ham. Chelsea,

of course, also have the Champions League semifinals on tap as well.

Speaking of those semifinals, Chelsea will face Byron and PSG advanced past Leon on Sunday after finally playing their delayed quarterfinal second leg.

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