IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Kadidiatou Diani scored a brace with Lyon and already 23 goals in 2023, the best Goalscorer in France
UEFA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (13/14 December 2023)
- Only Norway’s Brann of all other teams had never been among the last 16 of the Women’s Champions League !
- Ada Hegerberg, the first woman BALLON D’OR in the Football History, who is the Best Goalscorer of the UEFA Champions League history (61 goals) , was happy to meet a Norwegian team, but without her sister Andrine, who has been injured since July and not on the field in Lyon.
- Kadidiatou Diani scored a brace with Lyon and already 23 goals in 2023, the best Goalscorer in France.
- Olympique Lyon has scored 466 goals in the UEFA Women’s Champions League History, the most of all clubs. Second in the ranking, Arsenal has only 301 goals, FC Barcelona is ranked 6 with 202 goals.
- Marie Yasmine Alidou d’Anjou, Canadian striker of Benfica, scored already her 4th Champions League goal against Frankfurt, an important winning goal for her club, now second in the Group behind Barcelona.
- Since 2017, Barcelona met five times FC Rosengard and won five times ! Yesterday, it was a large 6-0 in Sweden ! Salma Paralluelo scored her 26th goal of the year 2023 and Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmati her 25th goal !
- FC Barcelona played in Rosengard without Central defenders Leon and Paredes. It aws the duo Engen-Torrejon who played for the first time.
- Häcken had the pleasure to meet Blues midfielder Johanna Rytting Kaneryd, who moved to Chelsea London in summer 2022.
- Chelsea’s unbeaten start in the season ended last Sunday with a 4-1 loss ar Arsenal, the first time Chelsea have conceded four in an away domestic game since … 2015 !
- If London had multiples representatives in the last years, this time it is Paris who has that honour with Paris FC (knocked out Arsenal and Wolfsburg) and Paris SG (won Manchester United).
- Maria Grohs, Bayern München’s Goalkeeper, is only 22 but played already her 51 th game with the team against Ajax.
- Bayern is now unbeaten since 6 UEFA Champions League games and also in the Bundesliga, where they are the dominating leader.
- Scotland’s Samantha Kerr played with Bayern against Ajax, one hour before that the Australian Samantha Kerr leads Chelsea against Hacken !
- With 1 point in 3 matches, Real Madrid without the injured Linda Caicedo is last of the Group ranking, Paris FC winning his first game in the competition due to a decisive penalty stopped by Chiamaka Nnadozie, the new awarded African Goalkeeper of the year, already penalty killer against Arsenal and Wolfsburg !
- AS Roma, unbeaten in Serie A and in the UEFA Champions League, lost their first game yesterday in Paris SG, who won their …first match of the CL season !