Three games have been reversed :in a switch from the draw, Brøndby, Fortuna and Breidablik are at home in the first leg. All the first leg games are played tomorrow except the Barca v Minsk one.
Barcelona don't want to be labelled the 'favourites' against Minsk.. it's like, have some confidence! You were finalists. It's also the reason why the FC Barça horse-betting shop didn't make any money. https://translate.googleusercontent...rca-femenino-aitana-bonmati-lluis-cortes.html
Well, at least they don't ask to be even called the underdogs! I can understand low-profile and respect of the opponent, but this is a little too much...
omg Minsk are gonna win I thought the time was a printing error, but the former 1-game conquerors of Barça, BIIK-Kazygurt, are kicking off against Bayern Munich in half an hour, at 08:00 GMT / 14:00 Kazakh time. https://www.eurosport.com/football/...ygurt-fc-bayern-munchen_mtc1152530/live.shtml A quick preview with BIIK's Zambian midfielder Misozi Zulu.
lets hope Bayern Munich is back in full training mode for their CL game, they sure didn't seem like it lately
It's interesting seeing anti-hubris popping up with some teams.... Barca here is acting kinda like how the NC Courage act, always trying to label themselves as "underdogs" no matter what the situation.
Given their complete lack of league title wins over the past few years despite boasting a very good squad on paper, I don't think they ever want to be seen as favorites.
Very poor performance from Slavia in a match-up that wouldn't be favorable on a good day, but ~5,300 attendance isn't bad.
Round of 16 - 1st leg summary: BIIK Kazygurt 0 - 5 Bayern Munich Damnjanovic 23, Magull 28(p), 38, Gielnik 73, Rolser 80 Brøndby 0 - 2 Glasgow City Henriksen 1(og), Abel 60(og) Wolfsburg 6 - 0 Twente Jakabfi 24, 37, Bloodworth 60, 89, Harder 71, Rolfö 78 Slavia Prague 2 - 5 Arsenal Svitkova 71, Persson 88 - Miedema 24, 26, 39, 52, Little 58(p) Fortuna Hjørring 0 - 4 Lyon Hegerberg 17(p), 54, Le Sommer 29, 41 Manchester City 1 - 1 Atletico Madrid Beckie 13 - Corral 81 Breidablik 0 - 4 Paris Saint-Germain Sævik 10, Formiga 18, Katoto 29, Dudek 90+2 Tomorrow: Barcelona - Minsk Footnote: Ada Hegerberg equalled Anja Mittag's all-time Champions League record tonight of 51 goals.
Double own goal for Brondby... ouch ManCity/Madrid looking good! =edit= Side note: the fact that only two matches in the **round of sixteen** were decided by less than four goals is sad. Still too massively lopsided in Europe.
And one of the matches that was less than a four-goal victory margin was 5-0 Arsenal before Slavia Prague scored two goals late to make the difference three.
Spain's Catalan region rocked by third day of violent unrest ...let's hope tis will not affect the match
You knew Twente would be overmatched against Wolfsburg but it should have done a little less worse than 0-6. Dire! Did Houghton get a yellow card for protesting after the ManCity match? It looked like it. Not sure what she was yelling at the referee about.
...Wasn't it three matches? (And of course the number might rise, if the underdogs Barca can play Minsk close)
They play well in the second half, but their first half was dire. Also the press entrance is via the McDonalds attached to the stadium. Crazy. They actually close half of the McDonalds to let the press go through a corridor to the stadium.
Yes, I miscounted - largely because I saw the "5" in the Slavia 2-5 Arsenal match that @L'orange pointed out and grouped it in with the larger GDs
Haven't heard and I am curious, too. Her toe injury was obviously pretty serious as she's been out now for, what, three months?
Round of 16 - 1st leg: Barcelona 5 - 0 Minsk Oshoala 6, Torrejon 20, Bonmati 22, 26, Hermoso 85 Mariona (FCB) missed penalty (35) The return leg will be a formality in six of the eight encounters. Atletico-Man City is alive of course, and I believe Brøndby can turn things around in Scotland against Glasgow City. The Danes definitely lost against the run of play yesterday.