Man City’s title credentials, West Ham redemption and same old Arsenal

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

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Girls Football, Womens World Cup, Chloe Kelly, Lionesses, Nwsl, Football, Womens Football, England Womens, Keira Walsh, Womens England Football, Sports, Leah Williamson, Soccer, Womens Sports, Womens Soccer, Female Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Manchester City caught the eye on Saturday with a dominant Manchester derby win, even if Mark Skinner disagrees. Today, Chloe and Rachel explain why they think Man City could be ready to shake up the title race in the WSL.

Elsewhere, at the bottom of the table, West Ham and Liverpool picked up important points, but are Chelsea now showing some flaws? Plus, Arsenal's goal-scoring problems continue in a dull North London derby.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Upfront. I'm Chloe Morgan and I'm Rachel Sullivan.
0:06.4	It was a massive weekend at both ends of the WSL table.
0:11.0	Man City Hammers United 3-0 in the Manchester Derby.
0:14.3	City are now three points clear at the top and quite simply can't stop scoring.
0:19.2	There were also a couple of big results at the bottom of the table,
0:21.9	with West Ham earning a convincing 3-1 win over Everton
0:24.9	and Liverpool keeping title holders Chelsea to a 1-1 draw.
0:29.3	Arsenal, meanwhile, continues to fall off the pace.
0:32.3	Get a bit worrying now.
0:33.5	Drawing nil-0 with spurs in the North London Derby,
0:35.7	there are now eight points adrift of Leaders Man City after back-to-back draws in the league.
0:45.2	Before we get started, we've got an exciting prize to give away exclusively for you, our loyal upfront listeners.
0:52.0	We are giving away an England shirt signed by Lucy Bronze herself, now that she's got both legs back, how bloody cool is that? So if you want to get your hands on this truly incredible, one of a kind prize and get to hang up Lucy Brown's signature in your home, then follow these simple instructions. Click the link in the show notes and complete the stack survey. It's a really simple questionnaire
1:11.2	about your listening habits and it will take you no time at all to complete it. And once you've
1:15.5	submitted it, you'll be automatically entered into the prize pot for an English shirt
1:18.9	signed by Lucy Bronze herself. So go ahead, click the link in the show notes and put your name
1:24.1	in the hat. It has been quite an eventful weekend, Rach. I, this is what I wanted.
1:30.5	This is what I didn't want the title race to be wrapped up in like week nine or whatever it is.
1:34.3	Like I wanted the kind of the drama, the excitement, the jeopardy. And I feel like this weekend is
1:38.7	delivering some results that probably weren't expecting across the bottom and the top of the table.
1:43.7	But before we get stuck into a lot of the games that went on this weekend and try and unpack what the hell went down, let me know you're very good at the weekend, mate, because there was a lot, there was a lot of drama this weekend. So I had to think about this and it was very nice because I was watching a lot of these games from my hotel room in Toronto on free to air TV.
2:01.8	So I just wake up at like 7 o'clock in the morning and I've just got WSL to watch.
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