How Arsenal overcame chaos in Chelsea & magical Barcelona romped at Nou Camp in UWCL quarterfinals
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The UEFA Women’s Champions League quarterfinals are in the books. But did the four semifinalists, Arsenal, OL Lyonnes, FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich, deserve to advance?
On this episode of Full Time Focus, Producer Theo Lloyd-Hughes and Tamerra Griffin break down all four of this week’s quarterfinal second legs, with the help of The Athletic’s Cerys Jones, from Stamford Bridge in London, and Laia Cervello, from the Nou Camp in Barcelona. Just how wasteful were Chelsea with their chances? Did Sonia Bompastor’s fury at the referees overshadow the match? How special was Barcelona’s return to the Nou Camp, where Alexia Putellas celebrated her 500th match in style? Did Lyon disappoint despite advancing? What is Bayern Munich’s secret weapon?
PLUS: What does the pod make of Nils Nielsen suddenly stepping down as the head coach of Japan’s women’s national team just 12 days after winning the Asian Cup?
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HOSTS: Theo Lloyd-Hughes, Tamerra Griffin
GUESTS: Laia Cervello, Cerys Jones
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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Referenced on the show:
Chelsea 1-0 Arsenal: Sonia Bompastor sent off after Katie McCabe’s hair pull in fiery finale
Why Arsenal may need to show a bit more caution in the Champions League semi-finals
Chelsea’s Champions League exit underlines the need for summer transition
The night Barcelona crowned Alexia Putellas their queen at the new Camp Nou
Champions League: Barcelona dominates, makes semifinals with Bayern, Arsenal and OL Lyonnes
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| 0:00.0 | Lucy Brown said after the game, she felt like Chelsea with a better team over the two matches, the 180 minutes. |
| 0:08.7 | Do you agree with that? |
| 0:09.5 | Do you think Arsenal deserve to go through? |
| 0:11.1 | Do you think Chelsea would a better team? |
| 0:12.4 | Arsenal would a better team? |
| 0:14.6 | I think Arsenal was pretty decidedly the better team in the first leg. |
| 0:19.6 | You had mentioned that they were very happy to capitalize on counterattacks, and it kind of felt like, even if that was, like, decidedly the strategy and how they were going to approach that second leg, it looked almost like they were figuring out where and how they wanted to take risks as the team that had a two-goal aggregate advantage. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello and welcome to a bumper European edition of full-time focus. |
| 0:51.9 | I am your host for today producer, Theo Lloyd Hughes. Yes, |
| 0:56.1 | the Champions League quarterfinal second legs are in the books and we know the semi-finalist |
| 1:00.6 | the final four. Leon, Arsenal, Barcelona, Blime Munich. So on today's episode of full-time |
| 1:06.3 | focus, I'll be joined by the athletes to Merrick Griffin as well as snippets from Las Javeo in Barcelona, Keros Jones in London. We'll be getting into all the UA for Women's Champions League Quarter Finals. Did Arsenal deserve to get through in a close one against Chelsea? Just how marvellous were Barcelona on their return to the new camp in what was Alexia Puteu's 500th game, why a by Munich set piece FC, |
| 1:28.7 | and if that wasn't enough, |
| 1:30.0 | we'll also be touching on the major news |
| 1:30.9 | in international football this week. |
| 1:32.8 | Neals Nilsson has stepped down |
| 1:34.1 | as the head coach |
| 1:34.9 | of the Japan |
| 1:35.7 | women's national team. |
| 1:42.5 | All right, and there is just |
| 1:43.6 | absolutely no way I could talk away for Women's Champions League, all on my lonesome. |
| 1:49.2 | So who else but to bring in Tamara Griffin with me now to talk all things Champions League. |
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