English Chelsea surprised Christiane Endler’s Olympique de Lyon at home in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals played in France.
An unexpected and “suffered” fall at home recorded this Wednesday the Lyon Olympicsby Christiane Enddler, before the Chelsea English for the women’s Champions League quarterfinals.
The London box is imposed by the minimum account thanks to both Guro Reiten at 28′.
Lyon, current champion of the tournament, couldn’t against a visiting team that stood equal from the first minute.
The only goal of the confrontation was of enormous quality. Reiten finished ‘first’ from the entrance of the area and nailed the ball next to Lyon’s far post. ‘Tiane’ flew and stretched as much as he could, but failed to avoid the target.
The goal hit Lyon who tried to reach the tie with more disorder than play. What’s more, Chelsea was able to increase their counterattack but was not fine in the last pass.
In the second half, the foreigners started better. In fact, ‘Tiane’ had a block at 53 to keep his team in the race.
The galas almost tied it at 59 ‘, but the post said no after a ‘shot’ from Van de Donk.
About the end, Lyon cornered Chelsea in their field but it was not enough to rescue, at least, an equality.
With this, the ‘blues’ return to London with an important advantage for the second match. This is scheduled for Thursday, March 30.
