The world selection of Olympique Lyon is again a number too large for the footballers of VfL Wolfsburg. In the quarter-finals of the Champions League in the early comes in spite of a strong comeback.
Omitted to bounce of the players in Orange through the center circle. Radiant faces, a water fight with water bottles and a dance of the Ballon d’or-winner Anna Hegerberg (no, of course not Twerk) – the team of Olympiques Lyon celebrated shortly after Abfiff the victory in Wolfsburg. It is the great satisfaction to have in the “anticipated final” keep the upper hand.
For the footballers of VfL Wolfsburg, the great dream of Champions League title burst again. The defending Champions Olympique Lyon a number was too large. The German Double-winners lost after 90 eventful minutes of the return match in front of a home crowd. After 1:2 in Lyon, the she-wolf documents at home with 2:4 (0:2), and missed for the first time in 2015, the top Four of the Premier class.
Hard-won balance
In front of 4,400 spectators in the sold-out smaller Arena of Wolfsburg, the German national player Dzsenifer Marozsan (8.) and Wendie Renard (25., Foul penalty), the world-choosing the series winner, which last won three times in a row the Henkel trophy, in the lead. Pernille Harder (53 In./56.) possible for the VfL in a turbulent second half of, marriage of, with Eugenie Le Sommer (60./80.) the last wolf Burger hopes dashed.
Also the national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg pursued in the stands in Wolfsburg in the Showdown of the two best European women’s football clubs in the new edition of the previous year’s final (1:4 AET). But, as in the first leg, the Bundesliga leaders started early on with unnecessary goals against. With your semi-high free-kick to guide precious technician, Marozsan had, first, their national team colleague, Almuth Schult in the VfL-gate look bad.
Comeback and setback
The goalkeeper, to set the beginning of the year of a measles infection out of action, caused a quarter of an hour later the second hit. In the highest Emergency Trains pulled in the penalty area striker Ada Hegerberg of the legs. As Lyons captain Renard recycled to the legitimate penalty, was thrown out of the VfL match of the plan. The two-time title winner (2013 and 2014) had to risk in the second round and go on the Offensive. The fast Harder-double strike left the VfL in the meantime, to the great miracle to believe, but the classic French settled the semi-final Ticket.
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