How Manchester City beat Chelsea in the UWCL quarterfinal first leg
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another Full Time Focus, the new Friday podcast hosted by Jillian Sakovits that gets you ready for the weekend’s action while also catching you up on the key women’s soccer news that developed during the week.
On the show this week: Jillian has the latest to get you ready for the NWSL weekend, where the league's top-four teams from 2024 are all set to clash in a fascinating double-header. Plus, all the latest from a busy off-field news week.
After that, Charlotte Harpur and Jessy Parker Humphreys join the podcast to help analyze what's going on in Europe. The trio breakdown how Manchester City handed Chelsea its first defeat of the Sonia Bompastor era in Wednesday's Champions League quarterfinal first leg, as well as the other three knockout matches.
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Articles mentioned on the show:
How Manchester City inflicted Chelsea’s first defeat of the Sonia Bompastor era
NWSL’s Denver expansion team announces stadium plans to open in 2028
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Jessy Parker Humphreys, Charlotte Harpur
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:50.6 | Business. On today's show, we get you all set for an NWSL weekend that has a big-time doubleheader |
| 0:57.7 | clash between the league's top four teams from 2024. |
| 1:01.9 | And after that, Charlotte Harper and Jesse Parker Humphreys from The Athletic join the show |
| 1:06.8 | to talk all things Champions League quarterfinals and Manchester City getting one over on Chelsea. |
| 1:12.8 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:14.5 | There are two marquee matches this weekend, without a doubt. |
| 1:18.1 | It's the Washington Spirit taking on the Casey Current. |
| 1:20.7 | That game 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time on Ion and then on Sunday, Gotham FC, hosting the reigning champions Orlando Pride. |
| 1:28.4 | That game ESPN 2, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN Plus, 5 o'clock Eastern Time. |
| 1:33.9 | You probably already know that these are the top four teams from the 2024 NWSL season, |
| 1:40.0 | but did you know that the top two goal scoring teams were, in fact, |
| 1:44.0 | the Washington Spirit and the KC, and the two top defensive teams were Gotham F.C. and the Orlando Pride. |
| 1:51.0 | Let's start with the Spirit. It will be their home opener this weekend, now dubbed at the Rowdy Outie, which I just so, so love and credit there to the supporters. |
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