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Beyond the Pitch Episode 60 : The WSL weekend special
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Join Cate and Alka as they chat away about yet another incredible weekend of football in the WSL!
Arsenal beating Brighton in front of over 20K attendance, City and Chelsea powering through, and the most internaiting and stat heavy 0-0 we have seen in a while in the competion by United and Villa
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Introduction to 'Beyond the Patch'
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to Beyond the Patch, a daily women's football podcast brought to you by the global the Global Sports Podcast Network. And today is brought to you by myself, Kate and Alka.
00:00:25
Alka
Hello.
00:00:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello, darling. Right. Another incredible weekend of football for the WSL.
00:00:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah this start This time also started on Friday with two really dope games. Even my team lost, but
Recap of WSL Weekend Games
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Global Sports Podcast Network
two really incredible games.
00:00:44
Alka
hu It was Friday night was it would be.
00:00:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
mad, literally mad. And so of course, that's what we're going to actually focus on today. So we normally have three different topics. And what we're going to do is we're going to talk about three different sets of games and in the three sections.
00:01:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I mean, you have a spare fun and a, and a national fun in the room. So that's going to be a bit of a two
00:01:14
Alka
One half a weekend for someone more than others.
00:01:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
two very different weekends exactly two very different weekends so but why don't we start with yours uh your team's victory at home to Brighton which was uh i don't know i think quite spectacular i have to say i have to say
00:01:35
Alka
It was, I definitely did not, I, I, thought it would be such a hard game. I could not sit here at any point throughout the week and say we're going to win against Brighton and we're going to win 5-0. Brighton have put up the biggest fight this season I've ever seen. I think they are full of talent and the fact that we managed to keep a clean sheet is something that I still can't comprehend.
Spotlight on Arsenal's Performance
00:02:06
Alka
We had, you know, Zinsberger finally back in the lineup, um which I think is good for her. I didn't expect it to, I didn't expect Zinsberger to be back against Brighton. I thought that was more of a top flight club in my eyes, ah top half of the table. Therefore, I thought Renee was going to keep Sonia, not Sonia in, Renee was going to keep Van Domseler in.
00:02:28
Alka
um But no, Zinsberg obviously showed herself. She smashed it. We love a good, we love a clean sheet. We don't often keep clean sheets around here. I'll tell you that for a fact. But five nil is crazy. Like that, yeah, I can't. Usually we get a bit sloppy around at a certain point. The defense starts to drop.
00:02:54
Alka
easy through balls are played through and then that's kind of on the counter is where we kind of have our weakness where we tend to joppa drop drop our defense a bit but yeah the girls smashed it and to have five different goal scorers as well is beautiful like yeah
00:03:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I was going to say I think that's one of the most impressive things is like five different girls that scored. And so I um I'm going to take my first hat off in here and I'm going to say Two things.
00:03:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
One, I'm absolutely heartbroken for Brighton. I think they had a fantastic start of the season, and they were really on it. And I think this was a bad loss. I mean, five and more was a bad loss.
00:03:36
Alka
yeah
00:03:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
Arsenal's Transformation Under René
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Global Sports Podcast Network
So they probably have to go back and think like, OK, what has happened in there? ah But then on the other side, I'm just like, wow. Like, wow. Wow.
00:03:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wow. that after an incredible bad start of the season, it's like they lech like they switch from one day to another. It's bad to say that.
00:04:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Well, actually, is it bad to say that?
00:04:04
Alka
though it's the truth you everyone knows why it's happened we can tell like they've got the most energy now they're enjoying football they're loving it like even i saw in this in to interview bev mead was like oh renee hasn't changed anything she just made us like fall back in love and like play with happiness and that is just something that realistically should just be an unwritten rule about football the fact that the girls had to go through quite a while obviously not enjoying the way they played was in insane for a top flight you know for a professional elite team.
00:04:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, but it's also, I don't know. yeah I mean, we don't really know really what goes on in there. And, you know, I have not yet worked for a top football team. So I don't really know.
00:04:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think there is more to it that goes through it you know it's not this is not like a grassroots or like an amatorial team so I think there is so much more than like well okay the players aren't that happy because also we need to be careful like I think we've gone through a lot of, and I'm not saying that what Arsenal did was wrong.
00:05:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Actually, I was a big supporter of that and I'm very happy that, you know, the coach left. I think he achieved some really good thing, but then, you know, it's a bit like a relationship.
00:05:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sometimes, you know, when it's time to go, it's time to go and that's it.
00:05:25
Alka
And.
00:05:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
you can remain and say oh but we used to be so good together and you know we used to get on so well together yeah you did now things have changed so move on but i'm just very happy that whatever is happening now considering that for whatever reason, René is still not on the car to take over the job fully and everything.
00:05:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just think that whatever is happening in here, it's beautiful.
Chelsea's Dominance Over Liverpool
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Global Sports Podcast Network
That's why I said I'm going to take off my first hat.
00:05:51
Alka
yeah
00:05:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I love, obviously, you know, there were more than 20,000 people again watching the game, which was great. ah It proves that there is a space constantly all the time.
00:06:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
to have games ah some people will debate it might not be a lot of people but actually that is quite a lot and considering there was another you know London big game on not played in London but still um I think it's quite a high attendance And what I'm very, very happy about is seeing Lina scoring again.
00:06:31
Alka
Mm hmm.
00:06:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So obviously she had, she's taken a bit of a break, right, for some personal reasons as well. And I think she's an incredible player.
00:06:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
um not only I think she's beautiful to watch in every possible way but but also I think she's an incredible player and I just love seeing this type of stories of players coming back through as we said you know not just kind of like physical injuries but also personal things because life does happen to everybody and then just can't you can also see how the team was really supporting that happening does it make sense
00:06:55
Alka
yeah
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Global Sports Podcast Network
i just i just I just absolutely loved that.
00:07:13
Alka
Yeah, definitely. so
00:07:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can see it meant so much to her and you can see how the team really um do say leverage everything around her to kind of like support this.
00:07:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it just makes, I don't know, it just makes to me the game and the women game even more beautiful because of that personal touch.
00:07:38
Alka
Yeah, they all have a relationship with each other.
00:07:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
noise Yeah, that we also add into it. and and And it is something that unfortunately, I think we lost a lot in our counterpart mails game, because it goes down to money. And I understand it, I get it, when you're running a business in that type of way, it matters. But I love the fact that, you know, for now, at least in our game is still about the love as well and not just that.
00:08:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
But anyway, congrats. Really great game. um you know Super deserved. And I think we also want to chat quickly about Chelsea and Liverpool.
00:08:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
So first time in five years, I read somewhere that Chelsea wins away at Liverpool. Another clean shift. So another clean shift. That's pretty impressive.
00:08:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And another win in the, I don't know, Sonia.
00:08:33
Alka
Hey, Alameda.
00:08:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sonya Bumpa store dominance of, hey, I just came over and look at me, I adapted so quickly and my team is machine.
00:08:40
Alka
Exactly.
00:08:43
Alka
um Obviously, I think a lot of the Chelsea players would have had a bit of nervousness reminiscing about last season. and Last season, that game is still one of my favourite games. I said it earlier on in our podcasting journey when we were talking about matches, it was my favourite. Obviously, everything that had happened with Emma Hayes in the media before, having Leon Kinn and score that last minute goal. Obviously, that was then the match where Emma Hayes had lost all hope in terms of winning the league, which I wasn't a fan of personally in terms of attitude, but um so a lot of the players, but i well, you could argue both ways. You could say a lot of the players could have been like, oh no, Liverpool again, maybe they've they've obviously had a bit of a some good game, some bad game run this season. There always a strong side, that's undoubtable. um But I also felt like a lot of the players would have gone, right, we're back here and we're gonna smash it, which is obviously what they had done. Sonia never had a,
00:09:41
Alka
never never had a bit of doubt in her. She sat in that press conference all cool and collected like, yeah, just another game. Obviously, never going to write them off. that that's a one That's like one key thing about a coach. You should never write off any team, whether they're at the bottom of the league or the top of the league, because that's when it comes and turns on you. And she said it perfectly in the press conference in terms of, we're here to do our job. We're chilling, all vibing, and we're ready. And they definitely showed us they were ready.
00:10:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's um It's just,
Man United vs. Aston Villa Stalemate
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know, it's scary in a sort of way because you're just like, yeah, I know the Chelsea dominated league.
00:10:20
Alka
Another red.
00:10:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah But then it's also beautiful to see because of that. But I do miss, I have to say a little bit, no, a little bit, a lot actually. I miss Emma.
00:10:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm just like, oh, you know, she she was so like, I don't know, in your face and loud and,
00:10:39
Alka
ah Yeah.
00:10:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, but
00:10:41
Alka
and like I feel like I always saw more of Emma Hayes than I did of Sonia.
00:10:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah, but but but I am very happy that, and I said it many times before, you know, she was bound to face so much criticism coming over here and and doing everything, et cetera.
00:10:46
Alka
Yeah.
00:11:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
And instead, you know, the whole team is flourishing. And again, let me repeat it once more. and We still don't, the team still doesn't even have some care. So I don't know what's going to happen when she's coming back because she, she is going to come back on fire.
00:11:11
Alka
Oh, I'm terrified.
00:11:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
She will want to play so much.
00:11:17
Alka
Sorry about the smoke yet.
00:11:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah.
00:11:21
Alka
Indeed.
00:11:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, now, second part.
00:11:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's talk about United Villa first. Like, a happy i happy a happy topic for a second.
00:11:57
Alka
Aha, you're on the problem.
00:12:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
and So, again, i was um I was going through some of the articles yesterday about ah after the game, et cetera, and apparently this has been one of the most, how do I say, battled, let's put it this way, an entertaining, nil-nil game.
00:12:17
Alka
Yeah.
00:12:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
in the women ah WSL for a long time. So yeah, final result, nail-nail. So no one's good. You know, normally, let's put it that way, not a very not very exciting games when the result is like that. But actually, by looking at the
WSL's Competitive Landscape
00:12:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
stats, absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. I don't know how United managed to keep Neil, Neil completely considering Villa got nearly 60% of board possession. ah Many more shots on target, nearly double amount of passes and incredible accuracy as well. Seven corners.
00:13:01
Alka
I'm proud, I'm so proud of Willa. I think that basically all I'm saying is I'm a Sam Stianjolo super fan over here and I know obviously the goalkeeper is not the only part of the team but I feel like she has made the utmost of differences. Obviously Willa smashed it two seasons ago, um last season again they played so good but then obviously they had a bit of a tearful with Carla Ward and all of that um but it's nice to see that they're finding their feet again it might not be like you know top five or wherever they're standing but it's nice to know that they're finding their own flow again being able to beat teams like United who
00:13:45
Alka
have, you know, transferred in really strong, strong players. Obviously we can argue, right, United two seasons ago, they should be still be in the top two, X, Y and Z, but obviously clubs go through their own journeys, things happen, things stay, which shouldn't stay. um But it's nice to see that both of them are kind of, well, Villa more in the sense is flourishing and finding like their journey back up, which I'm really excited for.
00:14:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, they're obviously bottom three, right? Alongside Crystal Palace and Everton. I mean, and West Ham as well, I would say. They're all a bit there. Oh, actually Leicester. They're all a bit there, but Aston Villa and Everton are the bottom two, currently.
00:14:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah And it's, I don't know, it's just a bit, I mean, we only have 12 teams in the in the league. And every time I look at it, I'm just like, oh my God, who would they pick? Like, but who would they pick? I don't want to pick anyone. Like I want all of them to stay up. But then I'm also very excited about maybe, you know, some of the championship coming up like i'd love to see birmingham back i'd love to see the london city lioness is coming up um but so i'm just like i don't know shall we we said that uh was it you and i chatting about it or was it me and katherine chatting about it i was thinking
00:15:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
and if we would be with katherine I was like well can we not make the league 14 teams so we have two more spaces and and we are not relegating any anyone or i don't know and where I don't know it's just it's whoever will make me very sad.
00:15:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
But anyway, I don't know.
00:15:38
Alka
Yeah.
00:15:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Aston Villa in the past few years, generally as a club, generally, has been doing fantastically. They put so much work into it. Absolutely loved the fact that day they were also one of the clubs and said, yeah, you know, we're playing at the main stadium.
00:15:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
i I love it. And yeah, I think keeping it up with United was a really good battle. And I mean, you United still, I don't know, maybe watch it a little bit because they drew the last three
Coaching Insights: Mark Skinner's Journey
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games.
00:16:10
Alka
yeah they they've not gone on the best run possible um again i feel like come january might see a little a little ass not as severe a little arsenal tube you know i think not that no i i obviously i can't you can't blame everything on the managers that's not how it works the whole system behind it but ultimately the way football works is if one part of the system is broken it's the manager's fault whether the manager itself felt or not.
00:16:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:39
Alka
Like I'm not going to put all the blame on Mark Skinner, but I feel Mark Skinner needed to be out with Alessio Russo left.
00:16:46
Alka
And it's now been two seasons since. So I'm feeling like there will be, like if he does not resign, he will be kicked out.
00:16:59
Alka
And I've personally, as a coach, as a person, I would rather resign.
00:17:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah yeah.
00:17:04
Alka
then be forced out by a club and feel like I am unwanted.
00:17:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but I mean, when you reach a certain point, it's just different, you know, it's like, your idea resign when you are, I want to say on top of your game, and you're already thinking about something. So like, for example, 100% Klopp was already in talk with Red Bull about, you know, his role. And you know, I don't think that he decided to resign and go like, yeah, I'm just going to take some time off and decide what to do.
00:17:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then magically, all it happened. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being, you know, a bit more wary about her. And the same thing with Emma, right? It's not that she just resigned.
00:17:49
Alka
definite
00:17:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
She probably already was in talk and thought about it, etc.
00:17:53
Alka
that's the same with That's the same with any job. You don't really resign until you've got another another position to go in.
00:17:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah And not necessarily. Some people just I resigned before from some jobs and said, you know what, this is really not my environment and I'm gonna get out of it before everything gets worse than everything else.
00:18:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then I'll decide what to do. And I think that it's been, some of them have also done that, right? But I i don't know, but i yeah when you I think that when you reach a certain point,
00:18:25
Alka
Um
00:18:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and you I don't need to be very honest.
00:18:29
Alka
hmm.
00:18:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you either need to have a really great press conference and say, do you know what? I think this is, I am also one of the problems, so I'm going to remove myself from here and give space, whatever, whatever, whatever.
00:18:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or if you wait and then you give your, you know, notice or you'd say, okay, I'm going to leave when it's too late and everybody knows you're doing it because otherwise you would have been stuck in within a week.
00:18:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I don't know, a bit pointless. But anyway,
00:19:00
Alka
but As part of, like, I don't know, but as like a manager, especially Mark Skinner, who's seen this team grow, who's been through highs and lows, I would want what's best for this team, whether that's with or without me.
00:19:15
Alka
And so obviously now it's looking like it's awfully a bit too late. But even ah after the FA Cup, I would have said, right, it's actually my time to go.
00:19:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what I meant.
00:19:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
You should go when you are on the high. But anyway,
00:19:26
Alka
Yeah.
00:19:27
Alka
for even know But even if they didn't win the FA Cup, regardless, just that event, whether they won, whether they lost, kept well, not not lost, Keem's second, I would have said that's my time to go. The club needs new hands, new looking after. I've done all I can. I'm very proud to be a part of this journey and I've loved it in my time. However, I'm not benefiting the girls anymore.
00:19:56
Alka
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00:20:24
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using caster okay last but not least we're gonna talk about a couple of more uh games all right fine i i don't see that in my in my
00:20:31
Alka
Let's start with Citi Tottenham.
Man City's Tactical Mastery
00:20:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
scripture says the palace ever done in western blessed the city but yeah sure let's talk about
00:20:39
Alka
Yeah, I think someone's just swarmed away from the idea of Citi Tottenham.
00:20:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's talk about their amazing performance from City. The governance is still there.
00:20:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah It was actually, so I went to a watch party um um organized by Her Game 2.
00:20:51
Alka
ah
00:20:56
Alka
to
00:21:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
And this is something I'm going to talk in the next podcast about. They've striked an amazing partnership and I really, really, really want to chat about it because I think it's really,
00:21:14
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game-changing for women in football ah for from the supporter point of view. And I want to speak about the work that they do and disclaimer, I am one of the advocates for Spurs for her game too.
00:21:19
Alka
Yeah.
00:21:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
So obviously I'm even more, I have even more passion about what they do. So yeah, they've organized a watch party. So it was a few of us. ah from Spurs fans.
00:21:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we were not very happy. At the least we didn't have many CT fans, which is great. So they didn't rub me in our face. But I think all of us were a bit in disbelief.
00:21:46
Alka
don
00:21:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not only, first of all, oh my God, we got a goal after 21 seconds.
00:21:52
Alka
Yeah. yeah
00:21:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Literally like, we we sat down and I said, I turned around and I said to Ro, my friend who came with me, I was like, this is no sure not what literally that's what it was it's like you can't let bunny do like you know not when she's around and also it's like throughout the whole game we were just looking at each other right now and go like but no laura and ham like Do they know You cannot let let her do.
00:22:29
Alka
Leave her. The time and space.
00:22:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah why You can't leave her. do that She kept on just doing what she does best. What she does with City, what she does with Lioness. is like You know her. like i don't know I'm not even part of the game and I know her.
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's just like When she goes down, With the ball, you know she's going to place it in the box perfectly unless you really take her down like a rugby game.
00:22:52
Alka
and huh
00:22:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
and like you can't You have to stop her before. I don't know. For a moment, it was like, oh my god, what is going on? And then it felt like Tottenham came back a little bit in control of the game.
00:23:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you're like, OK, we actually had a couple of shots. And it was like, okay, okay, we're coming back into it. And then it's like, no, literally, they destroyed us. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. um I was a bit... Oh, dear. idea I don't know. but ah But also on the other side, I was like, okay.
00:23:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Manchester City wants to really power through it and and they want to score a lot because obviously, let's remember last last season, that's how they lost the championship, right?
00:23:36
Alka
Yet.
00:23:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is exactly how they lost it. They lost the league because of goal difference and that really, I think, that was really hard to digest. That was really, really, really hard to digest.
00:23:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so I think they really want to push it through because I mean, Chelsea has already, I mean, they already have a 20 goal difference compared to the 12 of CT. And that would make a difference at the end, not just the point. So, I don't know. Did you have did you have a chance to have a look at the ah the highlights?
00:24:13
Alka
um Well, I've definitely seen all Bunny Shaw's goals for a fact. um I think there's one thing.
00:24:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
What? Her treble?
00:24:22
Alka
A heriatric.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hot trick, hot trick, not treble, sorry, hot trick.
00:24:24
Alka
At the beginning of the season, Bunny Shaw definitely had a bit of a dry dry period, dry patch. She has this fabulous name.
00:24:37
Alka
to her, you know, funny shawl, that goalscorer, absolutely, that's a weapon. The beginning of the season was a slow start for her. Like when I say slow, even I was thinking here, whoa, am I taking her out of my fancy team? Obviously I haven't, she is still my captain. I'm not even a city fan, but you can't even, you can not even disagree with me.
00:24:59
Alka
um And then obviously she started scoring in Champions League. So I was like, okay, she's coming back obviously in a different little realm. It is so lovely to see her back doing exactly what she's doing what she does. You know, no stress, just hat trick, easy balls in and in, finishing the way she finishes. It's just, I love seeing it back. I love it when Bunny Shaw scores goals. Obviously I hate it because she's not my team, but There's just something majestic about just how she just, it's so, it just comes so natural to her and I just can't comprehend how easy she manages to find the back of the net. Like, trust me, I will, this is no secret, everyone could probably tell you this, I am no shiker. I face the goal and I absolutely wet myself and the ball will go 50 yards in the wrong direction. How she manages to have every touch magic is insane by me.
00:26:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, i so if I would have, here's the thing, right, if I would have taken my Spurs support, not really not a great weekend for us, ah ah suppose like really not a great weekend, but um if i say if i take that if I take that hat off,
00:26:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
then I have to say, like, I would have probably really enjoyed exactly what you said. So just watching Citi play the way they play and, you know, for Bonnie to have a hot trick.
00:26:27
Alka
yet.
00:26:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, I mean, top player to have and the most amount of hot tricks in the WSL. So that just says it all. And I ought mean, the next down is her teammate.
00:26:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's just how scary Citi is. But um I don't know. I don't know. I think it's going to be very interesting.
00:26:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I wonder how much can, how long and how much can they keep it up? And imagine when are they playing with each other? Do you know what? I haven't checked. So sorry.
00:27:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let me just double check.
00:27:04
Alka
Oh, they're playing next weekend.
00:27:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
ahh
00:27:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:27:11
Alka
Yeah. That's down for the bridge.
00:27:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh my God. That is going to be an incredible game.
00:27:14
Alka
On Saturday.
00:27:17
Alka
Yeah. Sorry, I acted like I had no clue what you was talking about. Well, I
Anticipation for Chelsea vs. City Clash
00:27:21
Alka
really didn't know. All my friends are going. I should really buy a ticket.
00:27:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh my god. Yeah, I forgot. Do you know what? I'm so focused on the North London Derby.
00:27:32
Alka
Yeah.
00:27:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
So focused on it that I completely forgot about it. Oh my god.
00:27:38
Alka
That's gonna be a game to watch. I think it's gonna be so gold-less, it's insane.
00:27:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Goalless.
00:27:46
Alka
Yeah, as in I think they are two, they're such good sides in terms of scoring, but they are so defensive heavy as well.
00:27:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
You think so?
00:27:56
Alka
Yeah, if I was bunny sure, I'd be like, right, this is my job. And then I'd be like, whoa, wait, that's Milly Bright. no way I would get around her, or vice versa.
00:28:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:28:05
Alka
Oh, Alex Cruder is gonna come and absolutely take that ball away from me. So, I think, like, even though I think tell Chelsea's defense is stronger than Citi's defense, but Citi's attack is more, like, is better than Chelsea, not better than Chelsea's attack, because Chelsea's attack is crazily, like, crazy strong.
00:28:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:28:24
Alka
But, like, I feel like the little, the way it all moves and the little cogs that fit together, So it's going to be such a, like an equal game. It's really, I think it's going to be tough. Like it it's going to be like a one goal, goal difference, you know, three, two, one, two, one nil. Please prove me wrong. I'd love a goal heavy match. You know, I'd love a five, one, but I doubt that will happen.
00:28:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. I also hope it's going to be anyway, but it's going to be an amazing weekend next weekend, but we'll talk about it in another podcast.
00:28:57
Alka
please
00:29:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
And unfortunately, that's all we have time for today. So thank you for joining us and we look forward to welcoming you to the next episode of Beyond the Pitch.
00:29:07
Alka
Thank you.
00:29:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a goodbye from me.
00:29:14
Alka
And me too.