Chelsea lift the League Cup and Crystal Palace smash the relegation battle wide open

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

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Soccer, Womens World Cup, Girls Football, Lionesses, Womens Sports, Female Sports, Chloe Kelly, Womens England Football, Leah Williamson, Womens Soccer, Nwsl, Keira Walsh, Womens Football, England Womens, Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea finally ended their League Cup final curse. This time around, the only cursed thing was the pitch at Pride Park.

Chloe and Rachel look back on a huge day for Chelsea and Sonia Bompastor. But will Man City be better prepared for their next meeting? And the one after that, and the one after that…

Plus, Liverpool upset Manchester United as Olivia Smith lights up Anfield in a performance Rach thinks was reminiscent of peak LJ. And while the title race might be sewn up, the battle for relegation is well and truly alive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Up Front. I'm Chloe Morgan.
0:04.6	And I'm Rachel Sullivan.
0:06.0	At last, Chelsea had broken their lead cup final curse.
0:10.0	They beat Manchester City 2-1 on Saturday, who were playing under interim manager Nick Cushing for the very first time since his bold return.
0:19.0	But the real loser was the pitch at Pride Park.
0:22.8	I mean, we'll get into it.
0:26.3	Elsewhere, Liverpool finally broke their Anfield curse.
0:28.7	They beat Man United 3-1 on Friday night in a huge blow to their title hopes.
0:32.9	And on Sunday, Crystal Palace officially reignited the relegation battle. Stay tuned to hear all about that.
0:48.1	But first of all, obviously, really, really special day for one of us on the podcast. Happy St. Patrick's Day. We're recording
0:56.0	this on Monday, the big day itself. Rach has sent me a really lovely, phonetically transcribed
1:02.9	way to say St Patrick's Day. I'm going to give it an attempt and then Rachel is going to give
1:07.5	you what it actually should sound like without being butchered by an idiot.
1:11.4	So, law Ila Parig, Hunah, Yves, Happy some of it was close. Some of it was miles off.
1:22.0	Law Ayla Parig, Honoreeve.
1:24.6	Well, then get better at transcribing and for that if you sound. I think that's a don't know I think that's a you problem
1:28.8	I think that's a you problem but it's fine I appreciate you trying
1:31.6	and for all of our Irish lists out there please don't cancel me I do apologise
1:35.7	Rachel's drinking a Guinness on the pod it is that kind of big energy that we're bringing to you
1:41.1	today do you want to hear a funny Guinness story yeah go, go on. Go on. Set us off. I accidentally have the Guinness harp tattooed on me.
1:50.7	Why is that an accident and how does that happen? What happened? This backstory.
1:55.9	Because Guinness is older than the Irish Free State. So the Guinness harp was actually like, you know, copywritten if you like.
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