Who is the best team in the NWSL after Week 3?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Another NWSL weekend, another win for the Orlando Pride and the Kansas City Current. But which team is leading the way?
On this week's Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits debates which of the league's perfect two frontrunners looks more impressive heading into the international break.
Jillian also has a look back on the weekend's action. From Tierna Davidson's cruel knee injury to Trinity Rodman's ongoing back issues and a whip-around Europe to check in on the U.S. women's national team players. abroad.
PLUS: What did we learn from Ashely Hatch and Temwa Chawinga's creative and amusing goal celebrations?
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Articles referenced on the show:
Gotham FC defender Tierna Davidson leaves match after non-contact leg injury
Trinity Rodman returns to the USWNT, Emma Hayes continues to work around notable absences
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm Jillian Zakovitz and welcome to full-time review. |
| 0:16.9 | It's presented by Amazon Business. |
| 0:19.2 | Your Monday morning rundown, looking back at the weekend's |
| 0:21.6 | action on the pitch and the top stories from the NWSL and beyond, and we do it in all under 20 |
| 0:27.3 | minutes. Coming up on today's show, perfection continues for the NWSEL's Elite 2. The Kansas City |
| 0:33.6 | Current and the Orlando Pride make it three wins from three, and we're going to try to |
| 0:38.3 | answer which is the top team in the NWSL prior to the international break. |
| 0:44.0 | And we've got the latest on injury concerns for U.S. Women's National Team defender Tierra |
| 0:48.5 | Davidson. |
| 0:49.6 | And ahead of the international window, we also pop over the Atlantic and check in on some Americans abroad. |
| 0:55.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:56.7 | Here's what happened in the NWSL this weekend. Orlando and Kansas City, perfect at the top. |
| 1:03.0 | Yet again, the Orlando Pride beating the San Diego Wave 2-1. |
| 1:06.3 | The game winner coming off of a Marta Panenka, despite missing one from the spot, just three minutes |
| 1:12.7 | prior, Marta, just doing goat things as the penalty kick proves to be the difference. |
| 1:18.3 | About the penalty, I was a little bit confused if I go to the right or the left, shaping |
| 1:24.3 | the meat, so, and then expert for the best. |
| 1:31.7 | The wave did become the first team to score on the pride this season, |
| 1:35.8 | thanks to a goal from 19-year-old Nigerian Chameka Oquachokwo, |
| 1:38.1 | not only found the back of the net, |
| 1:41.7 | but she did it two minutes into her NWSL tenure and on her very first touch. |
| 1:44.2 | What a way to open your league account. |
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