Champions League quarter-first leg: Juventus Women-Lyon 2-1

The dream continues. Juve beat Lyon 2-1 (goals by Girelli and Bonfantini) in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Women’s Champions League and remain strongly in the running for access to the semifinals. An extraordinary result, against all odds: due to the significant difference between the staff at a technical level and international experience. But after passing the group with the favorites Wolfsburg and Chelsea, the Juventus are still excited and write another page to remember. Even if the historic undertaking will have to be completed next Thursday, in French soil.

Lyon ahead

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After the afternoon friendly test that saw the Under 19 girls compete with the Lyon Under 20s, the fans of women’s football (more than 9,000) flock to the stands of the Allianz Stadium for a match that establishes the highest level of the Juventus project up to now. Montemurro holds the Bonansea card on the bench (not at its best), Grosso in the middle from the first pushes Cernoia on the attack line together with Girelli and Hurtig. The latter wastes a very occasional occasion in the second minute, not making the most of a sensational mistake by Renard: he comes face to face with Bouhaddi but does not frame the door.

Five minutes later (8 ‘) Lyon pass: Carpenter’s cross from the left, Macario’s header in defense. The French team continues to play the game and could double with Mallard shortly after the half hour (save on Girelli’s line) and just before half-time (at goal), but in both cases the assistant’s flag goes up to the offside position.

overtaking Juventus

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Juve tries to react at the beginning of the second half, but Girelli makes a bad use of a restart and the action is in any case spoiled by an offside starting point. At 62 ‘Cernoia escapes deep into the open field and is landed by Carpenter, last of the defensive line: direct red. The fans understand the moment and raise the decibels in support, Cernoia is exalted but hits the crossbar in full with a nice attempt from the left. Fresh forces, Caruso and Bonansea for Rosucci and Grosso.

And black and white party at the seventieth: Hurting keeps the ball in the field on the right, Lundorf puts it in the middle, the goalkeeper does not hold back thanks to the positioning in the area of ​​Caruso and Girelli bags, sending the Stadium to a boil. In Montemurro, however, it is not enough and ten from the end he decides to win it: in Bonfantini for Hurting. And the former Roma striker returns his confidence by scoring two minutes later from Caruso’s pocket. Bonansea wasted even the third goal on the counterattack just before the ninetieth. At the Stadium it is a historic success: for Juve and for all of Italian football.