Arsenal booked theirs and Bayern Munich’s locations within the quarter-finals of the Ladies’s Champions League on Thursday because of a late winner in opposition to Juventus, whereas Manchester Metropolis additionally progressed.
Barcelona closed in on the knock-outs by beating St Poelten 4-1, whereas Bayern drew 1-1 at Valerenga however obtained by way of their group after Juventus’ defeat.
Lina Hurtig bundled house from shut vary within the 89th minute on the Emirates Stadium to provide Arsenal a 3rd victory from 4 outings.
However extra importantly, her purpose condemned third-placed Juventus to remaining on three factors, which means they’ll not catch Arsenal and Bayern within the high two spots of Group C.
“I am tremendous pleased with the consequence,” Arsenal interim supervisor Renee Slegers informed UEFA’s web site.
“We have had a really intense block of video games each within the WSL (Ladies’s Tremendous League) and Champions League; this was the final one of many block and I am very pleased with the outcomes.”
The German champions at present high the group on 10 factors, one forward of Arsenal, with the eventual winners of the pool prone to be determined when the 2 meet once more on December 18 in England.
Within the first assembly between the perimeters in October, Bayern ran out 5-2 victors with Pernille More durable scoring a late hat-trick.
However earlier than Arsenal beat Juventus on Thursday, Bayern stuttered once they had been held to a stalemate by Norwegians Valerenga.
Jovana Damnjanovic’s purpose quarter-hour from time regarded to have maintained the Bavarians’ excellent run within the competitors however Elise Thorsnes struck within the 88th minute to delay their development to the quarters, for a few hours at the very least.
– ‘Tough sport’ –
In Stockholm, Man Metropolis noticed out a 2-1 victory in opposition to Hammarby because of targets both aspect of half-time from Khadija Shaw.
The Jamaican opened the scoring on 31 minutes, earlier than the hosts scored a shock leveller by way of Ellen Wangerheim three minutes after the break.
Parity lasted solely 4 minutes, nonetheless, as Shaw lashed house a right-footed strike from the sting of the field after slick footwork had created a half-yard of house for her to shoot.
“It was a troublesome sport in entrance of 20,000 folks,” stated Shaw.
“They got here they usually introduced the power, which made it troublesome, however we caught at what we’re good at, and we tried to execute in each a part of the sport. And tonight, we did that.”
A fourth win from 4 outings took Man Metropolis to 12 factors, three factors forward of holders Barca.
Barca surprisingly went down 2-0 at Man Metropolis of their opening match of the marketing campaign however have been ruthless since then.
Francisca Nazareth scored two in 9 first-half minutes to provide them the lead at St Poelten, earlier than Vicky Lopez added a 3rd and Alexia Putellas then scored her two hundredth purpose for the Catalans.
The 2-time Ladies’s Ballon d’Or winner introduced up the milestone within the 57th minute when she danced previous a defender contained in the field and slotted house to finish a slick group passing transfer.
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