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UEFA Women’s Champions League

The final round of matches in the group stage of the UEFA
Women’s Champions League turned out to be something of
a nightmare for the two Barclays FA WSL clubs, with both
suffering heavy defeats leading to one team scraping through
to the quarter finals and the other ending up with a shock
elimination.
Arsenal were first in action on Wednesday night,
travelling to Hoffenheim knowing that avoiding defeat
would be enough to take them through, whilst the home side needed a five-goal margin of
victory in order to knock them out. Although Jule Brand put Hoffenheim in front midway
through the first half, an own goal from Laura Wienrother brought the Gunners back on level
terms by half time and things seemed to be running smoothly at that stage. However, an
astonishing five minutes spell just before the hour saw Hoffenheim score three times and raise
genuine fears that Arsenal were heading rapidly towards the exit door. Chantal Hagel netted
a quickfire double before Gia Corley made it 4-1, leaving the German side requiring two more.
Arsenal managed to close the door and prevent any more goals being conceded, meaning they
go into the quarter final draw but on the back of a third heavy defeat in four matches.
Chelsea also made the trip to Germany to take on VfL Wolfsburg, again needing a
point to be sure of winning the group. Wolfsburg meanwhile needed a victory to make sure
and threw all they could at Chelsea, with GROUP A P W D L F A Pts GD
two goals from Svenja Huth putting them VFL WOLFSBURG 6 3 2 1 17 7 11 14
two ahead at half time. One goal would JUVENTUS 6 3 2 1 12 4 11 5
have been enough for Chelsea at this stage CHELSEA 6 3 2 1 13 8 11 10
but it was Tabea Wassmuth who scored SERVETTE FCCF 6 0 0 6 0 23 0 1
next, and with Chelsea forced to pile GROUP B P W D L F A Pts
forward in search of goals, Wassmuth PARIS SAINT GERMAIN 6 6 6 4 0 0 0 25 0 18
REAL MADRID
12
2 12 6
capitalised on a mistake to fire home her WFC KHARKIV 6 1 1 4 2 15 4
second on the night and make it 4-0. BREIDABLIK 6 0 1 5 0 18 1
This left Chelsea looking anxiously GROUP C P W D L F A Pts
at the other score in the group but their FC BARCELONA 6 6 0 0 24 1 18
worst fears were confirmed as Juventus ARSENAL 6 3 0 3 14 13 9 4
romped to a 4-0 victory over Servette HOFFENHEIM 6 3 0 3 11 15 9 -2
HB KOGE 6 0 0 6 2 22 0 4
FCCF and although the top three teams
GROUP D P W D L F A Pts -3
all finished level on eleven points after OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS 6 5 0 1 19 2 15 -4
their six matches, it was Chelsea who BAYERN MUNICH 6 4 1 1 15 3 13 -9
were dumped into third place and out of SL BENFICA 6 1 1 4 2 16 4 -10
the competition. BK HACKEN 6 1 0 5 3 18 3 -10
This will be the last issue published ahead of
the holiday break.
The next edition of Women’s Soccer Scene
will be produced on
Thursday 13th January 2022.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
from all of us!
Issue no. 16 - 16 December 2021 womenssoccerscene@mail.com