UEFA Girls’s Champions League, Quarter-finals, 18/03/25
Final season’s finalists Olympique Lyonnais will take the benefit again to France of their two-legged tie with Bayern Munich after targets from Tabitha Chawinga and Melchie Dumornay.
The Match
Pernille More durable had the primary probability of the night as Bayern surged ahead from the primary whistle. Nevertheless it was Lyon who regarded just like the much more harmful group. An enormous probability fell to Tabitha Chawinga after Arianna Caruso’s poor clearance. Nonetheless, the winger was gradual to type out her toes and the Bayern midfielder rapidly recovered from her mistake.
The guests settled rapidly into their ordinary purview dominating possession and enjoying patiently out from the again, which invited Bayern to press excessive. The black shirts swarmed forcing Lyon to work exhausting to interrupt previous their strains. An excellent alternate between Wendie Renard and Melchie Dumornay noticed the latter storm into the field however her shot was blocked by Magdalena Eriksson.
It will take Lyon till the thirty fifth minute to interrupt the impasse. Linda Sembrant’s sloppy contact as Bayern tried to play out from the again allowed for Chawinga to select her pocket after which run at Maria Luisa Grohs’ aim. The winger slotted previous the goalkeeper.
Ten minutes later, it regarded just like the floodgates would open for Lyon simply earlier than the half-time whistle when Ellie Carpenter was introduced down in a sloppy problem by the Bayern captain Sarah Zadrazil within the field. Lindsey Heaps stepped as much as the spot however her shot low and in direction of the right-hand nook was stopped by a diving save from Grohs.
Bayern got here out from the half-time break with renewed vigour. A sloppy go across the again from Lyon noticed More durable launch her teammate Klara Bühl into house. Nonetheless, the winger’s shot was left wanting and Lyon’s mistake unpunished. Regardless of this, Lyon nonetheless regarded to dominate the probabilities.
It will take one other massive block from Grohs to maintain the deficit slim when she denied a close-quarters shot from Kadidiatou Diani. Nonetheless, there was little the keeper might do to cease Lyon from finally discovering their second. Heaps plucked a header from Dumornay out of the air earlier than rolling the ball again to her teammate who fired residence.
Bayern’s finest probability of the night would come late into proceedings when More durable fired in direction of aim, however even that might be denied as Renard blocked the hassle from troubling Christiane Endler’s aim. In fact, it had largely been a snug night for the Chilean who had solely suffered one shot on course.
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