So you and I are opposing sides this Saturday!!!!! Ajax, other than Spitse, is very young and missing three starters from last season. this will be a test for them.
Good for France that Germany and Spain's third placed team have already lost. It could help us consolidate our first place.
Ajax just could not finish any chances and Fiorentina finished theirs. 1-0 and congrats to the Viola for going forward. Ajax are just too young and inexperienced. Keukelaar is a real talent but tries to do too much and gets dispossessed. Tihs was probably Spitse's last chance at the club level. Back to the league now.
Looks like my jinxing-strategy worked. I was out with friends, this afternoon, and I had to miss the game: I've re-watched part of the 2nd Half before knowing the final score and the final highlights. All in all, it seems to me a deserved qualification, although with the minimum score in both matches (also, there was no goal-line technology, I suppose, to decide if Janogy's shot deflected by the crossbar was in? ). Still having three teams at this stage of the competition sounds very good for Italy, considering that some other "big" nations already lost one team.
Looks like Twente are cruising to a victory so we will have one possible team advance. Women's CL is quickly evolving to where the men's league is right now. Maybe 3-4 countries will have most of the final qualifiers for the group stage. Even the Scandinavian teams which were strong in the old days are quickly sinking. Big money will rule all. Most transfers are now going to England.
Very difficult from the camera angle to see if the ball that caromed off the crossbar was a goal. I thought the game to be even though Ajax had many more shots on goal. There were all easy saves from the keeper. Unfortunate that our best controlling MF, Rosa van Gool, is out injured.
League Path: Seeded: PSG, Wolfsburg, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Manchester City Unseeded: Juventus, Häcken, Paris FC, Fiorentina, Sporting
Champions Path: Seeded: Benfica, Slavia Prague, St.Pölten, Roma, Twente, Valerenga, Vorska Poltava Unseeded: Anderlecht, Servette, NS Mura, Osijek, Celtic, Hammarby, Galatasaray
Hammarby is clearly the one to avoid for the seeded teams. The other are quite meh, as far as I know .Maybe Anderlecht could have something cooking also, you don't know with Belgium.
After seeing Wolsfburg vs Werder Bremen at the first match-day of the Frauen-Bundesliga, I want them to meet one of the Italian teams. Edit: I suppose there are no restrictions at this stage? The derby PSG vs Paris FC can freely happen?
Ridicilous format. I'm all for small leauges getting a good chance, but I think this format pit too many great teams too early against each other. The solution is to double the number participating in the group stage. Womens football europe has outgrown this format
Fiorentina got Wolfsburg : nice, they can advance! Roma vs Servette looks ok, while Juventus vs PSG will be hard. I guess Italy could anyway realistically keep 1 or 2 teams at group stage.
Good try, but that Wolfsburg from 6 years ago is not even distant cousin of this season's one. Even Popp looked way younger (because she was)!
I watched Servette barely slipping past quite weak Pogoń Szczecin with winning goal (great indvidual effort) scored in added time while playing against 10 players Szczecin (red card for Legowski in 76th min). In next game against PAOK (much weaker team than Szczecin) Servette players still had big problems to score from open play. Roma will eat Servette alive highlights from Pogoń Szczecin vs. Servette
All times CET First legs Wednesday 18 September Roma vs Servette FCCF (14:30) Osijek vs Twente (14:30) Paris FC vs Manchester City (18:45) Häcken vs Arsenal (19:00) Juventus vs Paris Saint-Germain (19:00) Hammarby vs Benfica (19:00) Anderlecht vs Vålerenga (19:30) Fiorentina vs Wolfsburg (20:00) Thursday 19 September Sporting CP vs Real Madrid (17:00) Galatasaray vs Slavia Praha (18:00) St. Pölten vs Mura (19:00) Sunday 22 September Vorskla Poltava vs Celtic (13:00) Played in Airdrie, Scotland Second legs Wednesday 25 September Slavia Praha vs Galatasaray (18:00) Wolfsburg vs Fiorentina (18:30) Vålerenga vs Anderlecht (18:30) Benfica vs Hammarby (21:00) Thursday 26 September Paris Saint-Germain vs Juventus (18:45) Mura vs St. Pölten (19:00) Servette FCCF vs Roma (19:00) Twente vs Osijek (19:45) Manchester City vs Paris FC (20:00) Real Madrid vs Sporting CP (20:00) Celtic vs Vorskla Poltava (20:15) Arsenal vs Häcken (20:30) Celtic playing games at home twice against the Ukrainian side.
Goalie with the ball in her control attempting to win 1v1 against opponent striker whle standing not 1m in front of her own goal... I can almost hear the Dutch team coach during a half time: ....meanwhile in other game Minami scores for Roma. It was coming.
Roma 1 - 0 Servette at HT Servette keeps the result respectable at HT... barely though. 54' Servette equaliser - bit lucky as there was possible foul in the build up and GK Caesar made an error, Coach Spugna not happy with some ref calls... but Roma really keeps wasting their chances...