Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 161: Still the only in the land
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim and Jamie look back at Wednesday night's eventful UWCL quarter-final second leg at Stamford Bridge, where Arsenal lost 1-0 but prevailed 3-2 on aggregate. Tim and Jamie look at the decision to reinstall van Domselaar in goal and her world class performance, how Arsenal survived some Chelsea profligacy, Katie McCabe at centre-half again, managing the various momentum switches in the game and the furore at the end with Katie McCabe, Alyssa Thompson and Sonia Bompastor.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askcast on AskBlog.com with me, your host, Tim Stillman, looking back at Wednesday night's 1-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge, but 3-2 aggregate |
| 0:22.0 | win for Arsenal in their UEFA Champions League quarter final against Chelsea. Another year |
| 0:28.3 | of the own, another year at least of the only in the land secured for Arsenal. They are going |
| 0:34.4 | to the Champions League semi-final where they will play Leon. |
| 0:38.0 | Again, we are recording this right after Leon against Wolfsburg, which, to be honest, |
| 0:42.9 | given that it's now 11pm, could have done without that one going to extra time, quite frankly, |
| 0:48.1 | but here we are. |
| 0:49.6 | Apologies, we're getting this out a little bit late. |
| 0:51.5 | I was booked to be on |
| 0:55.8 | counterpress podcast, which I'm sure a lot of you listen to. Uh, and if you don't, you should. Uh, |
| 1:00.9 | great women's football podcast on Thursday morning. Um, so we didn't get the chance to do it then, |
| 1:05.4 | basically, but, um, we will perhaps have a slightly more partisan look, uh, than the one I offered on counterpressed at this game. |
| 1:14.6 | And here to do that with me as ever is our co-host Jamie Spanger. |
| 1:18.2 | Jamie, how are you doing this morning in Melbourne? |
| 1:21.3 | Is it still morning? |
| 1:22.8 | Yeah, yeah, morning, 9 a.m. Bright and early. |
| 1:25.4 | Sat for what, two and a half hours of Wolfsburg Leon? |
| 1:28.8 | A very good game. Well, it was a good day. It was on a knife's edge until extra time. And I think we all had a little bit of hope. And that's not to diminish Wolfsberg's achievements and their strengths, because we know what they've done to us before. But I think maybe all Arsenal fans, We're not eager to see that Leon rampage in the in the extra time. |
| 1:46.3 | But Tim, I'm good. |
| 1:47.8 | Champions League semifinals, we're here again, we're defending our crown. I'm very, very excited. And I think if we're going to be a little bit more bias on this podcast, it's very nice to have done it against our London rivals and do it against Chelsea, who have obviously been going for the Champions League for many, many years now and we'll have to do another year without it. So it's a sweet feeling, an emotionally charged game, but yeah, we're in the Champions League semifinals. Yeah, and big shout out to the 3,000 Arsenal fans who packed into that corner of Stamford Bridge, lots of, you know, Champions of Europe, |
| 2:17.9 | you'll never see that. |
| 2:19.4 | Champions of Europe, you know what, we know what we are, we'll be running around Fullum |
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