REVIEW: ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Episode 7 — “ Yes & Baby”

Belief becomes harder when life refuses to stay outside the training ground. Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7, “Yes & Baby,” finds the Lady Greyhounds dealing with children, rent increases, second jobs, relationships, and opportunities that may offer more stability than second-division football. Nobody is asking Richmond to feel sorry for them. In “Yes & Baby”, these are simply the things the women must carry while still being expected to train, compete, and win.

“Welcome to second-division women’s football” becomes the Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7’s blunt explanation for everything happening around the team. The Lady Greyhounds don’t have the money or support systems that let football become their only responsibility. An important opportunity outside the club cannot always be sacrificed for practice. A rent increase can determine whether remaining on the team is financially possible. Childcare can fall apart with one phone call.

Lizzie (Faye Marsay) brings her son to practice after his father bails on picking him up. Her son spends the episode trying to find someone willing to read Charlotte’s Web to him. When he spots Richmond’s “Believe” sign sitting in Ted’s office and calls it “some pig,” the connection goes deeper than a cute reference to the book.

In Charlotte’s Web, “Some Pig” changes the way people see Wilbur. Charlotte puts the words above him, and suddenly everyone begins looking at this ordinary pig as something worth noticing, protecting, and believing in. Ted Lasso plays with that same idea here. A sign cannot solve anyone’s problems, but the words people choose to place above themselves can shape how they see what they are capable of.

Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 sets up the stakes for The Lady Greyhounds for the rest of the season.

Ted (Jason Sudeikis) has not even figured out where “Believe” belongs anymore. He doesn’t simply hang it in the women’s locker room and assume the philosophy that worked for the men automatically belongs to them. The Lady Greyhounds have no relationship with their history. To them, it is a piece of paper sitting in the coach’s office while they deal with children who need picking up, rent increases, second jobs, injuries, and everything else that comes with playing second-division women’s football.

Alice (Tanya Reynolds) is also trying to change how she supports the team. After the pressure she put on the Lady Greyhounds against Chelsea, she begins embracing “yes, and” in Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 to become more open to the people around her. The shift is awkward because Alice has built her identity around being the person willing to say no.

Giving Shannon (Shannon Hayes) a chance during a drill shows what that openness can accomplish. Alice sees the improvement Ted recognized when he first wanted Shannon on the team. She doesn’t have to abandon her knowledge or standards to admit someone else saw potential before she did.

Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 doesn’t need a major conversation between Alice and Gemma to show she is trying to do better. Her actions carry that work. Alice remains intense, but she is beginning to understand that responding to every problem with pressure limits what she can see in the players.

Alice’s attempts to do better are awkward, but she is starting to learn how to adjust her approach.

That growth leads back to the “Believe” sign. Alice adds her own sticky note beneath it, turning the message into “Believe And Win.” The women do believe. They’ve shown that throughout Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 simply by continuing to show up. What they need is a version of that belief that reflects who they are and what they’re being asked to do. 

“And Win” does not erase the childcare problems, rent increases, or second jobs. It reflects the way the team already approaches them. The Lady Greyhounds are not waiting for perfect circumstances before taking themselves seriously. They intend to win anyway.

Dani barely factors into a negotiation built around his future. His name becomes a tool to increase someone else’s salary, apparently without him knowing any of it is happening. The scheme fits an episode interested in everything athletes must manage while other people make decisions around them.

Zelda starts to find more footing in Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7, but it causes problems for Keeley.

Zelda Southport (Tracey Ullman) joins Rebecca and Leslie in exposing the lie through a fake call to the Chicago Fire in Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7. Watching the three of them attempt American accents is hilarious, especially as they discover that Derrick never spoke to the other club’s owner before bringing the offer to Richmond. The situation is absurd, but the agent’s willingness to use Dani remains believable.

Zelda has been a mixed addition over the last few episodes. Her bluntness and anger can be funny, but the series has not made her intentions entirely clear. She claims she wants to join Richmond in a professional capacity to help deal with the dicks surrounding the club, which would certainly give her plenty to do.

Her growing access to Rebecca and Leslie creates a more interesting concern around Keeley (Juno Temple). Keeley is left out of the Dani and Roy negotiations even though both situations involve player management, publicity, and people she knows well. Zelda seems to be moving deeper into Richmond’s operations, while Keeley becomes less involved in the decisions made around her.

That distance may be deliberate, especially after Rebecca and Keeley missed Zelda’s New Year’s Eve party. Zelda acts as though she doesn’t care, then finds a way to make her disappointment known. Whether she genuinely wants to help Richmond or is slowly creating a place for herself beside Rebecca remains uncertain.

Keeley gets much lighter material while helping Ted build a dating profile. Ted cannot describe himself in three words because reducing someone like him to a few marketable traits is nearly impossible. Keeley asks the questions, Ted answers them in the most Ted way possible, and the scene becomes a welcome reminder that he is simply fun to be around.

Keeley’s whole purpose this season is helping others, leaving little room for anything else.

Keeley once again spends most of Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 helping everyone else move forward. She builds Ted’s dating profile, handles Roy’s Wall of Legends honor, and fills her notebook with ideas for other people. Helping Ted gives the episode a funny reminder of why he is so easy to love, but Keeley receives little space to consider what she wants for herself.

Roy’s doctor, Erin Beaumont (Laura Haddock), finally removes herself from a relationship that began as part of his attempt to prove something to Keeley. Her decision is satisfying, especially after watching Roy complain about Keeley and compliment her hair while his girlfriend works on his knee. Still, the breakup makes the season’s direction obvious. Roy and Keeley stopped being a will-they-or-won’t-they story a while ago. The only remaining question is when they will get back together.

That leaves Keeley waiting for Roy’s emotional growth while continuing to solve problems for everyone around her. Across several episodes with little football, her biggest storyline has become helping Roy reach the point where he can return to her. Keeley entered the season with ambitious plans for the Lady Greyhounds, and hopefully the final episodes remember that she deserves something to build beyond another reunion.

The team itself is finally together, and Alice’s addition of “And Win” gives the season somewhere stronger to go. The Lady Greyhounds have built a community, confronted the realities surrounding second-division women’s football, and made Richmond’s belief their own. Now they need the chance to prove themselves on the pitch. Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 understands everything these women carry into each match. The final episodes need to show what happens when they carry it toward a win.

Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 is now available exclusively on Apple TV, with new episodes premiering every Wednesday until October 7, 2026.

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