2023-05-01 20:22:00
Wolfsburg joins Barça in the final! The German team got the better of Arsenal on Monday in the Champions League semi-final second leg (3-2 after extra time). In front of the 60,000 spectators in the London enclosure, the Louves forced the decision at the very end of extra time by Pauline Bremer (119th). The Germans will play their sixth continental final in eleven years in Eindhoven on June 3, and will try to win a third title after their coronations in 2013 and 2014.
Arsenal, yet a pioneer in women’s football, is still running behind its first Champions League final since its coronation in 2007, the only one won to date by an English club in women’s C1. While the two teams had left at the end of regulation time on the same score (2-2) as in the first leg, on April 23 in Germany, and seemed to be heading for a penalty shootout, two players Exits from the German bench made the difference, Pauline Bremer converting a pass from Jule Brand at the end of the end of extra time (119th).
Popp makes the difference
Before that, in the first period the Swede Stina Blackstenius, already scorer in the first leg, had defeated Kathrin Hendrich and Merle Frohms to open the scoring for Arsenal (11th). Wolfsburg then equalized thanks to a half-volley from Jill Roord (42nd), a former Gunners, on a header from the inevitable and effective Alexandra Popp. Injured in the first leg, the latter gave the advantage to Louves (58th) with a header from a corner.
Despite a big period from the Germans in the second half, the Londoners managed to pick up the score thanks to a header from Jennifer Beattie (75th). The Gunners had already restored a compromised situation in the first leg, when they were down 2-0 after about twenty minutes. But when Bremer shook the nets in the 119th, there was not enough time left for them to hope once again to come back to score.
In the final, the Germans will challenge Barcelona favorites and their Ballon d’Or, Alexia Putellas, who came into play in La Liga this weekend after the serious left knee injury which deprived her of the Euro last summer. and kept her off the lawns for ten months. The Spanish club qualified at the expense of Chelsea (1-0 first leg, 1-1 return) for their third final in a row (won in 2021, lost in 2022).
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