How a depleted Washington Spirit finally beat the Orlando Pride

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Orlando Pride looked unbeatable through four weeks of the NWSL. Then, a depleted Washington Spirit, missing 11 players including Trinity Rodman, came along. On this week's Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits discusses how the Spirit pulled off the biggest result of the 2025 season so far, as well as the other top stories from the NWSL weekend. PLUS: The Athletic's Laia Cervello also joins the podcast to report on the UEFA Women's Champions League semifinal first legs, where Barcelona humbled Chelsea. _______________ Articles mentioned on the show: Trinity Rodman stepping away from Washington Spirit to address back issues Depleted Spirit defeats reigning NWSL champion despite Trinity Rodman’s absence USWNT’s Trinity Rodman: ‘I don’t know if my back will ever be 100 percent’ Barcelona punish Chelsea to take three-goal lead in Women’s Champions League semi-final Arsenal endure their reminder of Lyon’s pedigree but still go to France with hope Arsenal edged out by Lyon in first leg of Women’s Champions League semi-final _______________ HOST: Jillian Sakovits GUEST: Laia Cervello PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen _______________ Get in touch: fulltime@theathletic.com Follow on Instagram and TikTok: @tafulltime Subscribe to the Full Time newsletter here Visit the Yahoo Women's Sports hub here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.8	Hello everybody. I'm Jillian Sackavits. A very warm welcome to full-time review. It is presented by Amazon Business.
1:12.4	The Athletics Women's Soccer Weekend Review Show that gets you all caught up on all the action from the NWSL and around the world in under 20 minutes.
1:13.6	So let's get into it.
1:18.7	Today, I'll be running down the top headlines from a monumental weekend in the NWSL. Then producer Theo will join me to unpack this weekend's big topic.
1:23.2	How did an injury riddled Washington Spirit Side become the first team to beat the Orlando
1:28.7	Pride this season?
1:30.2	And after that, Lyosurveo will join the show from Barcelona to talk about the women's
1:35.0	Champions League semifinals.
1:37.0	Let's get into it.
1:38.4	Finally, there is a clear leader in the NWSL, and that is the Kansas City Current, who after
1:43.4	five games in, remain perfect.
1:45.9	Five wins from five games with a two-nill victory over the Houston Dash.
1:50.0	That was the Kansas City Current fourth straight clean sheet,
1:53.0	401 minutes without conceding a goal this season.
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