Manchester Metropolis secured all three factors from their Champions League conflict with Hammarby by means of objectives from Laura Blindkilde Brown and Aoba Fujino. The win sees Metropolis preserve their good begin to the season, having dropped simply two factors throughout all competitions.
Beginning XI’s
Manchester Metropolis
Yamashita; Greenwood, Fowler, Kennedy, Ouahabi, Park, Casparij, Brown, Fujino, Shaw, Hasegawa
Hammarby
Tamminen; Nyström, Miyagawa, Joramo, Wangerheim, Lennartsson, Carlsson, Tandberg, Hasund, Andersson, Blakstad
The way it went
While Manchester Metropolis dominated the early possession, there was little to separate the 2 sides within the opening half hour. At occasions Manchester Metropolis appeared to battle with the extent of physicality offered by Hammarby. The hosts created the vast majority of the early probabilities nevertheless Hammarby’s defensive self-discipline compelled them to shoot from distance a lot of the time.
Shortly after the break, Laura Blindkilde Brown broke the impasse to place the hosts forward. Capitalising on a failed clearance, the No.19 lastly buried the ball past Anna Tamminen to present her facet the lead. The rest of the match handed with half probabilities for each side nevertheless neither staff was in a position so as to add to the rating line till the 79th minute. A diving header noticed Aoba Fujino double Metropolis’s benefit with simply over ten minutes left to play.
The three factors depart Metropolis high of Group D having taken all 9 out there factors. Hammarby stay third within the desk with only one win from their final three Champions League video games.
Up subsequent
Manchester Metropolis will journey to face present champions Chelsea because the Sky Blues return to home motion. Metropolis will then spherical out November with the return journey to Hammarby on the Tele2 Enviornment.
With their home season wrapped up, Hammarby’s subsequent 4 video games will probably be within the Champions League. Again to again matches towards Manchester Metropolis will probably be adopted by a house leg towards Barcelona earlier than the Swedish facet spherical out the group stage with a go to to face St. Pölten.
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