Round of 32 - first leg. Tonight's action: BIIK Kazygurt 3 - 1 Barcelona Putellas 45+6(og), Ikwaput 49, Gabelia 60 - Duggan 66 Ryazan VDV 0 - 1 Rosengård Belomyttseva 90(og) Somatio Barcelona 0 - 2 Glasgow City Lauder 3, Crichton 83 RC: Akaffou 43 - Ross 68 Sarajevo 0 - 5 Chelsea Bright 6, Spence 22, Thorisdottir 36, Ji 87, Engman 89 Spartak Subotica 0 - 7 Bayern Munich Lewandowski 12, Roord 29,39, Magull 64(p), Damnjanovic 82, Demann 87, Beerensteyn 90+3 Kharkiv 1 - 6 Linköping Voronina 70 - Maanum 26,60,86, Hurtig 48, Alidou 74, Rasmussen 82 Avaldsnes 0 - 2 Lyon Henry 50, Majri 77 Honka 0 - 1 Zürich Moser 60 Thor/KA 0 - 1 Wolfsburg Harder 31 Ajax 2 - 0 Sparta Prague Salmi 47, Zeeman 55 Fiorentina 2 - 0 Fortuna Hjørring Mauro 9,63 St. Pölten 1 - 4 Paris St. Germain Vago 65(p) - Bruun 4, Diani 20, Katoto 86, Dudek 90 Juventus 2 - 2 Brøndby Bonansea 43,84 - Sørensen 60, Gejl 72 Tomorrow: Gintra - Slavia Prague LSK Kvinner - Zvezda 2005 Atletico Madrid - Manchester City
Well, the Italy-Denmark clash was good for Fiorentina, not so good for Juventus, but at least Bonansea managed to make it a draw. A win will be needed in the second leg anyway, but it's not an impossible task. It's a shame I missed the game and I didn't find highlights yet, 'cause I'd like to watch Bonansea's goals. Looks like Katoto is back after her nightmarish U-20 WWC. She's young, she'll go past that experience. Although I wonder what her chances are of making the Senior Team in time for next year's WWC. We're going to see... Wow, apart from Barcelona's loss, this looks to me like the most surprising result of the day! Just 0-1 and Harder saved the day? Is Thor/KA so good or Wolfsburg is basically still in pre-season mode?
This game was live in Ukraine: UEFA Women's Champions League. R32 - 1st leg. WFC Kharkiv - FC Linköping - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPazwNvqhp8
Why upset? BIIK were favs to win at home, same way as Barcelona will be in 2nd game. (other question - can Barca score 2 or more without reply) Last years BIIK home games in CL round of 32 2014/15 2 - 2 vs. Frankfurt 2015/16 1 - 1 vs. Barcelona 2016/17 3 - 1 vs. AGSM Verona (1-1 away and advance to 1/16) Look at some BIIK players - Darya Kravets (Ukraine NT star), Charity Adule (Nigeria NT) and Chinwendu Ihezuo (Nigeria U-20 star), Alina Litvinienko (Kyrgyzstan's huge talent, youngest goalscorer in international football history), Fazila Ikwaput (Uganda NT rasing star) or veteran Gulnara Gabelia (Georgia NT) - quallity mix of expereience and youth, more than decent roster all around.
Thor/KA-VfL Wolfsburg highlights: the camera is very far from the pitch, so it's very hard (next to impossible) to recognize the single players. Anyway Wolfsburg hit some woodwork, but Thor do the same in the last action: Pernille Harder's goal in 1st half from a CK action ends being the decider: Juventus-Brøndby highlights. After second Danish goal you can hear Juventus coach Rita Guarino saying: "two goals taken in the same way"; that's not exactly true, but in fact both saw a player being basically free at the center of the box who received a cross from one of the sides. I guess Barbara Bonansea's goals are really worth watching. It was the day of braces for Italian NT players: Ilaria Mauro made it a 2-0 for Fiorentina vs Fortuna Hjørring, though. These video highlights are from Fiorentina's official website, I hope they're not geo-blocked out of Italy: http://it.violachannel.tv/fw-dettag...ighlights-fiorentina-women---fortuna-hjo.html
Well, I guess it anyway can be considered a legitimate upset, given the names Barcelona's roster deploys, incuding Player of the Year 2017: talking about that, I can't see Martens in Barça's line-up for the match; is she injured? (she was regularly on the pitch for the recent NT game vs Norway, though).
...or rather it proves that big names (or better known names) aren't necessary equal with best available quality. 4th year in a row Kazygurt players are going toe-to-toe at home with top UEFA clubs and it's still considered an upset? Heh, I liked comentary on Bonansea 2nd goal , indeed Alberto Tomba wouldn't done this better
I think the pitch over there is a great leveler as well. All the French teams that played there said it was a potato field. Logistics also is important, both PSG and OL chartered a private jet for those trip because going via normal airlines, there is no direct flight and connexion are not quick at all.
This is true: a friend of mine recently went to Kazakhstan and she was complaining at how long the trip was, since she had to stop in Moscow for some hours anyway.
Round of 32 - first leg The remaining matches played tonight: Gintra 0 - 3 Slavia Prague Dubcova 63,88, Szewieczkova 79 LSK Kvinner 3 - 0 Zvezda 2005 Sønstevold 2, Kvernvolden 14, Haavi 80 Atletico Madrid 1 - 1 Manchester City Robles 89 - Bonner 16
Avaldsnes - Lyon https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=286008005333788 St. Pölten 1 - 4 Paris St. Germain https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=574113763004753
Previews for 2nd leg in Round 1 – tomorrow night and Thursday night Barcelona v BIIK-Kazygurt BIIK pulled off a 3-1 upset over Barca in Kazakhstan. Here's an interview with BIIK's manager, which has some detail about his club, and about Kazakh women's soccer generally: - https://www.tribalfootball.com/arti...north-carolina-courage-win-nwsl-title-4249921 (Archived) Man City v Atlético Madrid (1-1) With the up-and-coming England international Georgia Stanway: - http://www.nwemail.co.uk/sport/1690...-cant-wait-to-get-stuck-into-atletico-madrid/ (Archived) Fortuna Hjørring v Fiorentina (0-2) Italian club striker Ilaria Mauro - Autotranslated: http://www.violanews.com/stampa/fiorentina-womens-mauro-vogliamo-andare-avanti-in-champions-gli-obiettivi/ (Archived) Refereeing appointments (With ref trading cards!) - http://arbitrezvous.blogspot.com/2018/09/uefa-womens-champions-league_24.html (Archived)
She was not listed at all for that game, which is odd. She might have a knock--hope it is nothing more than that; we may know tomorrow (the 26th) when these teams play the second leg. Of course The Netherlands has a huge NT playoff game coming up in, what, little more than a week, so if I'm Dutch coach Wiegman I definitely don't want my star player running around on a poor pitch against some team intent on breaking ankles, though I wonder if she has a say in the matter.
Yes, the Kazakhs should put an immediate call into Olso--the global home for artificial turf companies! Watch the ball bounce 5 feet high!
According to the report posted by always reliable @Patchouli on Spanish League and WNT thread, Lieke Martens played the whole game this week-end, when Barcelona won the derby vs Espanyol by 3-0. So, if she had been injured, it had to be a minor hit. Or maybe she had been one of the first players to suffer from the food intoxication that happened in Kazakhstan.
Brondby IF - Juventus https://mycujoo.tv/video/brondby-if?id=25958 Fortuna Hjorring - Fiorentina https://mycujoo.tv/video/fortunahjorring?id=25377 Rosengard - Ryazan VDV Barcelona - BIIK Kazygurt https://www.facebook.com/FCBfemeni/
If my calculation are rights, the association rankings are really tight around places 10-14 8. Italy 32.000 9. Switzerland 30.000 10. Netherlands 28.000 11. Kazahkstan 27.000 12. Russia 26.000 ------------------------- 13. Norway 25.500 14.Scotland 24.500 Reminder the 12 association with two teams in 2019/20 are already decided they are : Germany, France, England, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Scotland, Austria.
Manchester City - Atletico https://www.facebook.com/mancity/ Bayern - Spartak https://www.facebook.com/fcbfrauen
Tonight's action. Round of 32 - 2nd leg: Linköping 4 - 0 Kharkiv Lantz 9, Angeldal 11, Alidou 78, Almqvist 84 Linköping win 10-1 on agg. Barcelona 3 - 0 BIIK Kazygurt Guijarro 4, Torrejón 48, Martens 90 Barcelona win 4-3 on agg. Wolfsburg 2 - 0 Thor/KA Harder 28, McLeod 66 Wolfsburg win 3-0 on agg. Brøndby 1 - 0 Juventus Sørensen 33 Brøndby win 3-2 on agg. Sparta Prague 1 - 2 Ajax Burkenroad 27 - Lewerissa 50,52 Ajax win 4-1 on agg. Bayern Munich 4 - 0 Spartak Subotica Beerensteyn 18,53, Magull 55, Islacker 64 Bayern win 11-0 on agg. Rosengård 2 - 0 Ryazan VDV Brown 18, Wieder 75 Rosengård win 3-0 on agg. Fortuna Hjørring 0 - 2 Fiorentina Clelland 15,25 Fiorentina win 4-0 on agg. Manchester City 0 - 2 Atletico Madrid Meseguer 4, Da Silva 45+1 Atletico win 3-1 on agg. Chelsea 6 - 0 Sarajevo Spence 4, Kirby 31,77, Mjelde 50, Blundell 86, Cuthbert 90 Chelsea win 11-0 on agg.
Atletico with the upset over ManCity! =-D Also glad to see Barca survive. 2-0 would've also sufficed on away goals. Denmark and Italy split their paired series. .....I got very confused looking at the Wolfsburg scoreline there for a while before I looked into it. I thought Ella wore "Masar" on her jersey last year with Rosengard, but I guess she's switched to wearing "McLeod" now that she's with Wolfsburg?