Decimated by Corona, women’s soccer champion Bayern Munich failed with the last squad in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
After seven cases, the team of coach Jens Scheuer came to a 2: 2 (2: 1, 1: 1) after extra time in the second leg at Paris Saint-Germain, at the premiere in the Allianz Arena last week they had a 1: 2 given.
Saki Kumagai (19th) and Lea Schüller (55th) scored for Bayern, Sandy Baltimore (17th) and Ramona Bachmann (112th) scored for the French champions. PSG meets record winners Olympique Lyon or Juventus Turin in the semi-finals at the end of April (first leg 1: 2).
Scheuer had described the COVID outbreak as a “catastrophe” at the wrong time, in the Prinzenpark the head coach was missing a total of eleven regulars due to three long-term injuries and the yellow card suspension for Viviane Asseyi, only two field players took a seat on the bench.
Despite the weakening of the team, the second-placed Bundesliga team got into the game well and the 0-1 came out of nowhere. A cross from Baltimore grew longer and longer, Janina Leitzig in the Bayern goal looked unhappy when she conceded. But the answer came quickly: After a header from Schüller, which Barbora Votikova was only able to fend off with difficulty, Kumagai dusted off.
In the second half, the Bayern women, who met leaders VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga summit on Sunday (2:00 p.m. / MagentaSport), put a lot of pressure on them and earned the lead. Schüller deflected a shot from Klara Bühl into the goal with his elbow.
Record backdrop for PSG
In front of 27,262 fans, a record for a PSG home game, the Munich team pushed for the third goal. Paris remained harmless for a long time before Leitzig made a brilliant save against Marie-Antoinette Katoto (79′). In the additional 30 minutes, it was the Swiss substitute Bachmann who kicked with a well-placed shot.
Previously, the women of FC Barcelona eliminated arch-rivals Real Madrid in front of a world record crowd of 91,553 spectators in the Camp Nou stadium on the way to the semi-finals. The defending champion around star player Alexia Putellas won the Clasico in their own arena 5: 2 (1: 1), Barca had already triumphed in the first leg (3: 1).
The previous spectator world record for a women’s game came from 1999, when 90,185 fans watched the World Cup final between host USA and China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Barca will face Wolfsburg or Arsenal in the semifinals. The second leg will take place on Thursday (6.45 p.m. / DAZN) in the VW Arena, the first leg in England ended 1-1.