How comebacks and revenge reignited the NWSL in Week 6

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

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Just as the NWSL was flirting with predictability, Week 6 delivered one of the most entertaining and dramatic weekends in the league's recent memory. On this week's Full Time Review, Theo Lloyd-Hughes and Melanie Anzidei break down what was behind the extraordinary comebacks in Week 6 of the NWSL, as well as what is helping to organically evolve the rivalry between the Washington Spirit and Gotham FC. PLUS: A historic Sunday of UEFA Women's Champions League semifinal action. How did Arsenal pull off a shock in France? Why is Barcelona still so far ahead of Chelsea? The Athletic's Megan Feringa and Charlotte Harpur joined the podcast live from Stamford Bridge to share their thoughts and analysis. _______________ Articles mentioned on the show: Arsenal reach first Women’s Champions League final since 2007 after win over Lyon Chelsea 1 Barcelona 4 (2-8 agg): Quadruple hopes end, system change disaster, Barcelona irrepressible NWSL teams are embracing tension, new and old: ‘People love a good sports rivalry’ NWSL requested permission to start a new second division. What does it mean for women’s soccer? _______________ HOST: Theo Lloyd-Hughes GUEST: Melanie Anzidei, Charlotte Harpur, Megan Feringa PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen _______________ Get in touch: ⁠[email protected]⁠ 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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0:49.6	Gillian Sackovitz can't be here today, so I will be filling in.
0:53.2	But do not worry, we are going to have some
0:55.2	absolutely incredible guests from the Athletics to break down all the weekend's action.
1:00.2	Coming up on today's show, yes, the chaos is back. It's okay, everyone. The NWSL is, in fact,
1:07.9	incredibly chaotic. Just as we tempted fate on Wednesday's show the league bounced back
1:12.7	with one of the most exciting weekends in recent memory. I'll be breaking that all down with Melanie
1:18.5	and Zee Day and then this week's big topic which is the district versus empire East Coast
1:24.0	rivalry which Melanie wrote about for theic this week ahead of Gotham versus
1:28.9	Spirit that took place on Saturday. We're breaking all that down. And then it's over to Europe,
1:33.4	where me and Melanie will be breaking down a historic day for Arsenal who triumphed over Leon
1:37.7	in one of the UEWFEL wins championship semifinals. And then we'll hand it over to Megan Ferringa
1:42.4	and Charlotte Harper, who were at Stanford Bridge to see Barcelona make it to the final in the other semifinals and then we'll hand it over to Megan Ferringa and Charlotte Harper who were at Stamper Bridge to see Barcelona make it to the final in the other semi-final. So so much to get to.
1:49.6	Catch your breath. Get ready. We tempted fate, Melanie. We did a whole podcast mid-week. to be one of the most chaotic weekends in NWSL, recent memory.
2:18.5	We tempted fate, Melanie.
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