Chelsea earned a tough fought 1-0 win over Lyon within the first leg of their Women’s Champions League quarter-final on the Groupama Stadium on Wednesday night time.
The Blues will now take that slim aggregate lead into subsequent week’s second leg at Kingsmeadow, making them slight favourites to succeed in the final 4 of the competitors.
The ever-impressive Guro Reiten scored the one aim of the sport within the first half, curling a scrumptious first-time shot previous Christiane Endler along with her weaker proper foot after being performed in by the returning Erin Cuthbert.
Lauren James virtually scored a surprising second for Chelsea earlier than the interval, working with the ball down the appropriate and unleashing a speculative strike along with her left foot that crashed into the far put up and bounced clear.
Sam Kerr didn’t see very a lot of the ball over the course of the 90 minutes however may need thought she might have executed higher with a great likelihood early within the second that she missed the goal with.
Lyon noticed extra of the ball and had extra photographs in complete. But, frustratingly for the house crowd, the eight-time winners and reigning champions lacked the innovative high quality to breakdown a resilient Chelsea back-line that included Kadeisha Buchanan towards her former membership.
Delphine Cascarino did hit the put up early within the second half and there was a late surge of strain within the remaining phases, however the leveller by no means got here.
The solely blot on an in any other case high night time for Chelsea was shedding Millie Bright to damage within the first half.
GK: Endler (6); RB: Carpenter (7), CB: Gilles (7), CB: Renard (7), LB: Morroni (6); CM: Horan (6), CM: Egurrola (6), CM: Marozsan (6); RW: Cascarino (7), ST: Le Sommer (5), LW: Dabritz (6)
Subs: Bechel (6), Van de Donk (7), Bacha, (6), Malard (6), Majri (7)
GK: Berger (7); RB: Perisset (7), CB: Buchanan (8), CB: Bright (7), LB: Carter (7); CM: Leupolz (7), CM: Ingle (7); RM: James (8), AM: Cuthbert (8), LM: Reiten (8), ST: Kerr (6)
Subs: Eriksson (6), Charles (6), Rytting Kaneryd (N/A), Mjelde (N/A)
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