Leah Williamson on Defending, Arsenal, England, and More | Wrighty's House

Stadio: A Football Podcast

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ian is joined by Musa Okwonga as well as Arsenal and England’s Leah Williamson! They begin with some FA Cup chat after huge results for Boreham Wood, Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough (00:59), before getting Leah’s insights on elite defending (04:20) and playing through a coaching change. Leah and Ian discussing their experiences of adapting to new methods (10:23), underrated opponents (21:42) and the feeling inside the Arsenal camp as the Barclays WSL title race heats up (25:06). There’s also talk about developing your own game and how elite defenders become feared (26:51), the upcoming Arnold Clark Cup (35:09) and what Leah’s been watching during her injury break (43:03). Host: Ian Wright Guests: Musa Okwonga and Leah Williamson Producers: Ryan Hunn and Roscoe Bowman Additional Production Assistance: Isaiah Blakely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The press box is here to catch you up on the latest media stories hosted by Brian Curtis and
0:04.5	David Schumaker. These guys have the insight on the biggest stories you care about.
0:08.5	Check out the press box on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Rites House, honouring our CEO Hope you're all safe and well. Today we're
0:47.7	going to be joined by Arson England's Leah Williamson to chat about the Barclays WSL title running,
0:52.9	a bit of the FA Cup dealing with coach changes and what films we've been watching and much, much more.
0:59.2	And my guests are Moosa Konga and a wonderful Leah Williamson. How are you doing guys?
1:03.9	Good, good, thank you. It's really good to see everybody man.
1:07.6	Lovely to be here. Have you met Leah before Moose?
1:10.2	I have not, I have not had the pleasure of the privilege. How are you doing Leah? Are you good?
1:14.1	I'm very well thanks, how are you? Very well, yeah.
1:16.8	I'm recording from undisclosed location somewhere in Berlin.
1:21.2	You're back home Moose, you're back home.
1:23.1	I am, I am in the homestead man in the homestead.
1:25.6	You know, Leah Moose is a man United fan, so I just got to say, you've got to go into it.
1:30.6	I'm not sure if you saw the game, you might have been busy or something.
1:34.0	Moose, you were seen to get man United, what was really annoying about it is that man United
1:38.3	were magnificent in the first half. Movement was like, it was electric stuff. Everybody was moving like,
1:46.0	Pogba made everything happen, he was the one. And then it just went to pieces.
1:56.2	It wasn't, but like it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was where I have to get credit.
1:59.6	That's why I'm just doing that quickly. I just, I just want to give middles were credit.
2:02.4	No, but that's something that happened in the championship. Very good team,
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