IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Sydney Schertenleib scored her first Champions League goal for FC Barcelona !
UEFA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
- Mala Grohs, FC Bayern’s goalkeeper, made a great return against Olympique Lyon after 5 months absence due to a disease. She made 5 great saves, with a penalty stopped from Lindsey Horan Heaps.
- Arianna Caruso played her first game in Champions League with Bayern, after her 37 appearances with Juventus in the last years.
- Eugénie Le Sommer is now the third player in History to enter in the 100 CLUB with Wendie Renard (123) and Alexandra Popp.(103). She played her 100th Champions League match in München.
- Olympique Lyon : 11 players from 9 countries and 5 continents of football on the field against Bayern München ! Arsenal, 8 countries and Real Madrid 7 countries – the women football is more and more international and worldwide !
- Linda Caicedo, IFFHS World’s Best Youth Player (U20) in 2022, second in 2023 and 2024, will be again candidate in 2025 ! She is only 20 and the star striker of Real Madrid, scoring the leading goal against Arsenal.
- Sydney Schertenleib, 18 years old, scored her first Champions League goal in Wolfsburg for FC Barcelona ! The new young star coming from Switzerland is ready to take the same way as her teammates Salma Paralluelo and Vicky Lopez, IFFHS World’s Best Youth player 2023 and 2024.
- After 9 seasons in Wolfsburg, Ewa Pajor joined Barcelona last summer, scoring already 33 goals since her arrival ! She took part of the large success of Barcelona in Wolfsburg.
- After the League game and the winning of the League Cup (first Trophy in England for Sonia Bompastor), Chelsea played again for the third time this season against Manchester City in UEFA Champions League !
- Chelsea lost their first game of the season ! After two defeats, City was the best team, winning the first leg of Champions League quarter final due to Vivianne Miedema who scored twice.
- THE RESULTS of the first leg QUARTER FINALS
- FC Bayern München – Olympique Lyon 0-2
- Real Madrid – Arsenal 2-0
- VFL Wolfsburg – FC Barcelona 1-4
- Manchester City – Chelsea. 2-0