Full Time Review: NWSL playoffs set, Christine Sinclair's Rose City goodbye, and San Diego's pitch debacle
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to the Full Time Review! Your weekly recap of the NWSL weekend & more in less time than a weather delay in Houston, Texas.
Tamerra Griffin has the latest on Bay FC and Portland Thorns locking in the two remaining playoff spots, and what the full quarterfinal slate now looks like.
Live from Providence Park, Steph Yang chimes in on the bittersweet goodbye to Christine Sinclair. Then, Meg Linehan talks about Snapdragon Stadium's pitch safety issues in San Diego. Before closing out, Tamerra touches on the FIFA U17 Women's World Cup, the COSAFA, and a gigantic club clash in France.
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HOST: Tamerra Griffin
GUESTS: Meg Linehan, Steph Yang
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to full-time review. I'm Tamara Griffin, and I am here to give you your quick refresher on this weekend's NWSL action the last of the regular season |
| 0:21.9 | and also some international soccer happenings from around the world sprinkled in. |
| 0:27.4 | To start, Bay FC and the Portland Thorns clinch those final two playoff spots that we've |
| 0:34.0 | been talking about for weeks and we'll be playing in the quarterfinals. |
| 0:38.7 | BayFC beat the Houston Dash 3 to 2. This BayFC game was huge. They played in Houston, and it was |
| 0:45.7 | a masterful performance from striker Rachel Kuninanji, who recorded both her first brace and |
| 0:52.5 | the club's first ever brace, which came in major handy. |
| 0:57.3 | I mean, so did the own goal that the Houston Dash scored to sort of open up the scoring. |
| 1:02.7 | But Rachel's brace is what sent them over the edge and into the playoffs. |
| 1:09.0 | Now, this is huge. |
| 1:10.2 | Bay of C, also with this victory, |
| 1:11.9 | becomes just the second expansion team |
| 1:14.1 | in NWSL history to reach the playoffs |
| 1:16.4 | in their expansion year. |
| 1:17.9 | And with that victory, |
| 1:19.1 | they became the expansion team |
| 1:20.8 | to have earned the highest number of points |
| 1:22.6 | at the end of the regular season. |
| 1:24.3 | Let's hear from Bayfc head coach, |
| 1:26.5 | Albertine Montoya, |
| 1:27.4 | about what this means for |
| 1:28.3 | the team. First of all, just very happy and proud of the players and happy for the fans that |
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