#womens-champions-league

#womens-champions-league

This has so far been shaping up to be the Winter Men's World Cup of our discontent...but if injuries and results have got you down, there's another exciting competition to look forward to!Bayern Munich are playing FC Barcelona today at 12:45pm EST in the Women's Champions League, because of course the draw brought these two clubs together again.

Chelsea sailed through the group stages undefeated.Arsenal proved eight-time winners Lyon can be beaten.But can an English side finally make a breakthrough and win the Women's Champions League for the first time since 2007?The group stages have come and gone and it's time for the knockout rounds with the first legs of the quarter-finals kicking off this week.

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola and England manager Sarina Wiegman are among the coaching finalists for the FIFA Best Awards announced on Thursday.Guardiola, who led City to a fourth Premier League title in five years last season, is joined on the men's coaching shortlist by Argentina's World Cup-winning manager Lionel Scaloni and Carlo Ancelotti, who guided Real Madrid to a Champions League and LaLiga double.

Paris Saint-Germain held on to beat Real Madrid 2-1 at the Parc des Princes on Friday to book their place in the quarterfinals of the Women's Champions League at their opponents' expense.A late goal from Claudia Zornoza wasn't enough for Real Madrid after goals from Elisa De Almeida and Kadidiatou Diani put PSG in control to send them through to the knockout stages with one round of group games still to go.
- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.) Needing a win to stay alive in the competition, Madrid showed more fight in Paris than they did in the goalless reverse fixture but again failed to convert their better chances with poor finishing costing them as much as PSG's goals.

Manchester United manager Marc Skinner will be keeping tabs on leaders Chelsea as the Women's Super League title race goes down to the final day.United, who have never won the WSL, are two points behind the Blues going into the final league game of the season on Saturday.Skinner says his side need a lot of factors to go their way in order to win a first major title.

Mental stress on elite female players must be considered as well as their physical health, says Manchester United manager Marc Skinner.Clubs have called on national teams to ensure players have enough of a break between the end of the domestic seasons and this summer's World Cup.It comes after a series of serious injuries to leading women's players, including England's Leah Williamson.

Arsenal have sold out the Emirates Stadium for their Women's Champions League semi-final second leg against Wolfsburg on Monday.More than 60,000 tickets have been sold, meaning the Gunners are likely to break the attendance record for a women's club match in England.The current attendance record of 47,367 was set in September at Arsenal's home victory over Tottenham.

The new-look end to the Serie A Femminile certainly provided some fireworks the first time through the schedule, but it ultimately didn't impact that title race all that much at all.On Saturday, said title race officially came to an end.With Roma's 2-1 win over Fiorentina, there is now a team other than Juventus Women that can call themselves league champions for the first time in half a decade.

With Juventus Women's multitude of success ever since its first season 5 1⁄ 2 years ago, the reality of the situation is that a roster has been put together of players who are in no danger of leaving but also those who are going to be suddenly coveted by other clubs.That's especially true of the last couple of years as Juve's success has helped the overall level of new arrivals rise, thus creating players who develop into very in-demand names.

Coming into Wednesday night's decisive Women's Champions League group stage finale, we knew what Juventus Women had to do and that their opponent was much improved from the last time the two teams played two months ago.That win the Bianconere needed to stay alive in Europe never arrived.The scoreless draw that ended up playing out at the Groupama Stadium was never going to do it when it came to Juve advancing to the Women's Champions League knockout rounds.

Something dawned on me right after I wrote the headline to this post.It's the very notion that I sat, probably in the same spot that I am now typing out this sentence, and probably wrote about the Juventus women having a big month ahead of them to close out the calendar year.Let's check things out, OK?
Yep, we've been here before.

The scheduling of the Women's Champions League semi-finals is "strange" and "needs to be looked at", says Manchester United manager Marc Skinner.Women's Super League leaders United were set to play Arsenal in a crucial title clash on 22 April, but that fixture will have to be moved.

Arsenal beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in front of a record crowd of 21,307 at the Emirates on Wednesday to reach to the semifinals of the Women's Champions League.First-half goals from Frida Maanum and Stina Blackstenius were all Jonas Eidevall's side needed to overturn their 1-0 deficit from the opening leg of the quarterfinals to advance.

Guro Reiten's first-half goal helped Chelsea beat Lyon 1-0 to put the London club a step closer to the semifinals of the Women's Champions League on Wednesday.The Norway international's curling strike in the 28th minute puts Chelsea in control against the defending champions heading into the second leg of the quarterfinals next week at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea will face holders and eight-time winners Lyon in the quarter-finals of the Women's Champions League.Arsenal will play Bayern Munich, with the Women's Super League sides unable to be drawn against each other after both won their groups.Last year's runners-up Barcelona play debutants Roma in the last eight while Paris St-Germain take on Wolfsburg.

Bayern Munich clawed out a 3-2 victory over Benfica in the Women's Champions League in the most dramatic of fashions.Bayern were the side with more control, but it wasn't a one-sided stranglehold over proceedings.Nor were they clinical and decisive in the final third, with low, flat crosses tending to clatter off defenders instead of creating chances.

England's Georgia Stanway sealed a dramatic comeback as Bayern Munich came from 2-0 down to beat Benfica in the Women's Champions League.The hosts looked on course for victory after Nycole Raysla and Cloe Lacasse scored either side of the interval.But Bayern pulled it back to 2-2 through Maximiliane Rall and Stanway.