1-1:Real Madrid Women claim draw in Champions League bow

Actual Madrid Girls secured a draw towards Manchester Metropolis on the Alfredo Di Stéfano within the aspect’s first-ever style of Girls’s Champions League motion. The English outfit hit the entrance initially of the second interval, earlier than Kenti struck a 92^nd-minute leveller. Properly earlier than the thrilling end to this contest, Misa was closely concerned within the opening skirmishes after she denied the guests on no fewer than three events. With six minutes on the clock, she palmed away Beckie’s effort from the left aspect of the field and simply 4 minutes later, she was once more referred to as into motion as she produced a powerful diving save to clear an inviting cross-shot, while on 12’ she intervened to show away a shot from inside the six-yard field. From that time on, the madridistas started to dominate within the remaining third.
 
With the sport now 22 minutes outdated, Esther acquired a cross from Nahikari contained in the field, just for Taieb to show her effort behind for a nook. From the following flag kick, Esther produced a bullet header that discovered the side-netting. Our crew continued to vogue probabilities and Esther as soon as once more got here a whisker away following a high quality pull-back from Kaci however her shot flew narrowly huge of the upright. With 44 minutes gone, David Aznar’s fees had an opportunity to take the lead once they had been awarded a penalty after a problem on Ivana, however Esther didn’t convert her spot-kick.

Till the top

Simply two minutes after the restart, Weir picked up a deflected ball on the sting of the realm and rattled the ball dwelling to make it 1-0 to the guests. The Madrid response didn’t take lengthy in coming, with Esther’s headed effort from an Olga centre rattling the crossbar. Within the 75^th minute, Kaci despatched in a cross to the far publish, the place Nahikari got here near restoring parity with a high quality header, however Taieb gathered the ball in. Shortly after, Teresa tried her luck with a thumping shot from the sting of the field that ended up crusing over the bar. Actual Madrid, who by no means give in, reaped the rewards their dogged dedication deserved in injury-time courtesy of a Kenti Robles objective. Athenea performed a ball into the field and when Esther failed to attach correctly, Kenti was available to gobble up the rebound to attract the hosts stage. Aznar’s aspect now flip their attentions to the return leg, which is to be performed on 8 September on the Manchester Metropolis Academy Stadium (8pm CET).

LINE-UPS:

1-Actual Madrid: Misa, Okay. Robles, Teresa (Møller, 86’), Peter, Ivana, Kaci, Olga (Zornoza, 71’), Esther, Nahikari, Lucía Rodríguez, Athenea.

1-Manchester Metropolis: Taieb, Stokes, Greenwood, Houghton, Coombs, Beckie, Morgan, Hemp (Raso, 60’), Losada (Scott, 71’), Weir, Shaw (Park, 71’).

 

Objectives

0-1 (min. 47): Weir.

1-1 (min. 92): Okay. Robles.