Sonia Bompastor’s good begin to life at Chelsea continued on Thursday because the Blues beat Twente 3-1 to go three factors clear on the prime of their Girls’s Champions League group.
Having overcome Actual Madrid of their Group B opener final week, Chelsea cruised to victory within the Netherlands to strengthen their grip on prime spot.
Aggie Beever-Jones noticed her 25-yard strike deflect in for a seventh-minute opener, and Chelsea had been 2-0 up inside 18 minutes as Maika Hamano lobbed goalkeeper Olivia Clarke.
Guro Reiten scored Chelsea’s third from the penalty spot when Lieske Carleer fouled Mayra Ramirez simply after the hour mark, with Nikee van Dijk netting a comfort for Twente 5 minutes later.
Lyon and Chelsea make it two wins from two #UWCL pic.twitter.com/moZenFATy4
— UEFA Girls’s Champions League (@UWCL) October 17, 2024
Within the different match in Group B, Madrid bought up and working with a powerful 4-0 victory over Celtic, with Scotland’s Caroline Weir among the many objectives for Los Blancos.
Weir curled in a terrific opener from distance after simply seven minutes, although Celtic then held agency and stayed within the contest till the latter levels.
Nonetheless, Signe Bruun, Caroline Moller and Linda Caicedo all bought on the scoresheet within the ultimate 20 minutes as Madrid put some gloss on the scoreline on the Alfredo di Stefano Stadium.
They weren’t the one convincing winners on Thursday, as Roma crushed Galatasaray 6-1 to go prime of Group A on purpose distinction, with captain Manuela Giugliano scoring twice and laying on two assists.
The opposite recreation in Group A noticed European heavyweights Wolfsburg and Lyon go head-to-head, with the French giants leaving Germany with a press release 2-0 victory.
Wolfsburg’s Alexandra Popp joined Wendie Renard as the one gamers to make 100 Girls’s Champions League appearances, however the French centre-back overshadowed her by nodding in an eighth-minute opener.
Lyon had the higher of the competition all through, ending with 2.75 anticipated objectives (xG) to Wolfsburg’s 0.83, and so they killed the match from the penalty spot eight minutes into the second half, Lindsey Horan scoring after Melchie Dumornay was felled by Janina Minge.
Horan from the spot!#UWCL pic.twitter.com/qvfE1kHXUr
— UEFA Girls’s Champions League (@UWCL) October 17, 2024
