The French will have their duel in the semi-finals. The day after PSG’s victory against Bayern Munich, the Lyonnaises imitated the Parisiennes by defeating Juventus Turin (3-1), Thursday March 31, in the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League. Norwegian Ada Hegerberg, author of her 57th goal in as many matches in the Champions League, Melvine Malard and Catarina Macario broke the Italian lock after a third of the match. Sonia Bompastor’s players recovered perfectly after the setback suffered on Piedmont lands (2-1).
Led by Juventus following the first round, our Lyonnaises reversed the trend in this second leg and thus validated their ticket for the semi-finals of the@UWCL !
3-1 (4-3) #OLJuve #UWCL pic.twitter.com/XCwhqK2tyv
— OL Feminine (@OLfeminine) March 31, 2022
In the semi-finals, it will therefore be the third duel in a row between the two teams in the competition. Because in 2020, the Lyonnaises had Parisiennes to lift the trophy and, in 2021, the players of the capital had avenged themselves in the quarter-finals of C1. The meetings will take place on April 23 and 30.
In two minutes, the Lyonnaises found happiness. Thanks to headed goals from Ada Hegerberg first, then from Melvine Malard just after, the 33rd and 35th minutes of play tipped the game in the side from Fenottes. Like a relief after a first half-hour at high intensity under the impetus of the Rhodaniennes, but where the Turin shield held firmly.
The second half was very similar to the first. Because after thirty minutes of play, the Italian lock again gave in to pressure from Lyon. And it was the agile Catarina Macario who, with a perfect control-shot sequence in the area, came to worsen the score for his team and qualify them definitively.
But the Lyonnaises had a heat stroke at the end of the match because, in the 84th minute, the Czech Andrea Staskova came to reduce the score with a whim. Not enough to sound the revolt for as much in the Turin clan which will not have succeeded in making Olympique Lyonnais falter at the end of the meeting.