Diverse fortunes for the two French clubs involved in the quarter-finals of the Women’s Champions League. After Katoto’s PSG, winner on the field of Bayern Munich on Tuesday evening (1-2), Olympique Lyonnais lost on Wednesday on the lawn of Juventus Turin. A surprise loss.
Facing tricolor goalkeeper Pauline Peyrand-Magnin, the Lyonnaises had nevertheless opened the scoring thanks to an early goal from the Brazilian Catarina Macario (8th). A fine head on a Bacha serve. Very dominating during the first act, Sonia Bompastor’s players totally cracked on the hour mark. The turning point: this red card conceded by the Australian right-back Ellie Carpenter (61st), caught behind her back and guilty of a fault of anti-game.
A hand fault by Bouhaddi
The balance of power was then literally reversed. After a post from Cernoia, the Turinese found the fault ten minutes later, well helped by a handball from Sarah Bouhaddi which took advantage of number ten Cristinia Girelli (71st). At the start of the game, Bouhaddi had already almost cost his team a goal after a recovery error by sending the ball over the back of Wendie Renard without the Swede Lina Hurtig taking advantage (2nd). The leader of Serie A then drove the point home thanks to Bonfantini (83rd).
The return match next Thursday at Groupama Stadium (9 p.m.) promises to be thrilling. In December 2020, in the round of 16 of the C1, OL had already suffered at Juventus Arena by winning 3-2 after being led 2-1.
After a catastrophic last exercise where they lost both their league and Champions League titles, another elimination in the quarters after the failure against PSG in the spring of 2021 would represent a terrible underperformance. Eliminated at the end of January – again by Paris – from the Coupe de France, OL currently occupy the lead in the French championship with a three-point lead over the players from the capital.