Ada Hegerberg got here on in its place and scored the ultimate purpose in Lyon’s 4-1 house win over Bayern Munich (OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE)
Arsenal’s girls produced an exhilarating fightback from a 2-0 first leg defeat to beat Actual Madrid 3-0 on Wednesday and arrange a Champions League semi-final with eight-time winners Lyon.
Alessia Russo scored twice for the Gunners in entrance of a crowd of twenty-two,517 on the Emirates, both facet of Mariona Caldentey’s header, to fireplace Arsenal into the final 4.
Madrid arrived in London stuffed with confidence after beating Barcelona for the primary time in a girls’s Clasico on Sunday.
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Nonetheless, the Spanish giants have been made to attend for a primary Champions League semi-final by a dominant Arsenal efficiency.
“It nonetheless feels a bit surreal proper now, I’ve probably not let it sink in but,” mentioned Russo of her finest evening since a high-profile transfer from Manchester United in 2023.
“We had quite a lot of perception all week, we knew what we wished to do, we knew what we have been able to as a crew and we’ve carried out that tonight.”
The house facet’s stress bore no fruit earlier than the half-time break and certainly they have been grateful to a wonderful save from Daphne van Domselaar that prevented Filippa Angeldahl from including to Madrid’s combination benefit.
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Three objectives within the first 14 minutes of the second half reworked the tie.
Russo swept house Chloe Kelly’s harmful cross simply seconds after the restart.
Kelly then picked out former Barcelona midfielder Caldentey to move in simply three minutes later.
Russo produced an acrobatic end to finish the comeback on the hour mark after Madrid didn’t take care of a free-kick into the field.
The England striker thought she had a memorable hat-trick just for VAR to intervene and rule out an Arsenal fourth for offside.
However Renee Slegers’ facet held out to march into the semi-finals, the place the French champions might be ready.
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Lyon thrashed Bayern Munich 4-1 to advance 6-1 on combination of their quest for a record-extending ninth title.
Klara Buehl gave Bayern hope with a first-half strike that lowered Lyon’s two-goal benefit from final week’s first leg in Germany.
Lyon levelled on the evening moments into the second half via Melchie Dumornay’s header earlier than Kadidiatou Diani punished a defensive error to place the French champions in full management.
Malawi worldwide Tabitha Chawinga grabbed Lyon’s third and former Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg got here off the bench to spherical off the scoring in stoppage time.
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Three-time winners Barcelona maintain a 4-1 lead over Wolfsburg forward of Thursday’s quarter-final, second leg in Spain.
In the meantime, English champions Chelsea should observe Arsenal’s lead in overturning a two-goal first leg deficit towards Manchester Metropolis.
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