Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United: the tightest title race in WSL history?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Four big teams, three points separate them, but only one of them will lift the WSL trophy - and one of them won't be playing Champions League football next year either. This season's WSL is the most competitive it's been at the top for some time. Joining Mark Chapman to run the rule over where each team will be fantastic and fallible it's The Athletic's women's football editor Chloe Morgan, writer Charlotte Harpur, and host of The Athletic Women's Football Podcast Lynsey Hooper.
Listen as the panel go through where Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal's strengths and weaknesses lie and make a case for why each team could win the league.
Yet there's one side that could actually be the disruptors to all this and decide where the title goes... Hint: it's not one of the big four.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | So Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea, |
| 0:07.8 | three points separate those teams, |
| 0:10.8 | making the Women's Super League title race closer, |
| 0:13.7 | bigger and more unpredictable than ever. |
| 0:16.3 | Who'll win the title, which one of them will miss out on the Champions League. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:22.0 | This is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:34.1 | It is a crunch time for Emma Hayes. |
| 0:36.8 | Emma Hayes knows how important it is to be consistent in the league and that league run. |
| 0:41.5 | Hey, Elisa Russo, the money. |
| 0:42.9 | She's a showstopper. |
| 0:44.6 | What are we wasting time for? |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, I don't really have a lot of concerns about Arsenal being consistent for the end of the season. |
| 0:49.7 | When you're losing players like Ellen White and Kira Walsh, and then I look at their replacements in Bunny Shore and Hasagawa, |
| 0:57.5 | it is either the best stroke of fortune I've ever seen, |
| 1:01.5 | or it is the research and the background checks that have gone into these players |
| 1:06.7 | and how they would fit into the system was just phenomenal. |
| 1:10.9 | Do you know what? |
| 1:11.2 | I'm sorry, Gareth Taylor. |
| 1:12.6 | I gave you a little hard stick before and actually I should have rained it in. |
| 1:16.6 | All right, credit to you. |
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