The second semi-finals of the semi-finals of the Women’s Soccer Champions League will be played on Saturday. Wolfsburg will face Barcelona at home and PSG will host Lyon in front of a record audience at the Parc des Princes.
In the Women’s Football Champions League, the finalist teams will decide today for the final on May 21 in Turin, Italy. In the second semi-final, Wolfsburg will host Barcelona and PSG will face Lyon at home.
The match between Barcelona and Wolfsburg practically settled in front of a record crowd last Friday as Barcelona rushed to a 5-1 win. Selected as the best football player in the world Alexia Putellas hit two hits, the latter from a penalty kick.
The Camp Noulla match was followed by 91,648 spectators, a new women’s football record. The previous record was also set by Barcelona, which faced Real Madrid in front of 91,553 spectators just a month ago.
The previous audience record for women’s club teams was in 2019, when Atletico Madrid hosted Barcelona at Wanda Metropolitano. At that time, the match was witnessed by 60,739 spectators.
In 1999, the final of the Women’s World Cup in football was followed by 90,185 pairs of eyes.
Barcelona, the reigning champion of the Champions League, secured the La Liga championship as early as March, six laps before the end of the series. The team has been completely superior in the Spanish league: they have won all 27 matches in the 146-8 goal.
Wolfsburg also leads the German league, but the difference with second Bayern Munich is only a point with three rounds left.
PSG is chasing the final spot in front of a home crowd
PSG bowed to Lyon 2-3 in the first round and is now chasing the final spot in front of the home crowd. In support of it, it gets a record audience, as the club announced on Tuesday that it had sold 31,400 tickets to the Parc des Princes. Up to 47,000 spectators are expected to attend the match.
PSG needs encouragement, as Lyon, who has been dominating women’s soccer for a long time, is thirsting for the top. Lyon, who just lost to the French league in the French league championship last season, is currently leading the country’s main division by five points to Paris.
The PSG camp was buzzing again during the first playoffs. Kheira Hamraoui was sidelined by the match, and according to the French newspaper L’equipe, the reason was Hamraoui and Sandy Baltimoren incident between team rehearsals on the morning of the game day.
This is not the first time that the Parisian club’s locker room is bubbling and Hamraoui is at the center.
Hamraoui was beaten in Paris when two masked men pulled him out of a car and slapped an iron pipe on his leg. The assault lasted several minutes. One suspicion was that Diallo had organized the assault on Hamraoui.
However, Diallo was released two days later and, through his lawyer, vehemently denied the offense.
Investigations revealed that Hamraoui and Abidal had talked on the phone the day after the incident.
According to French media reports, the atmosphere on the team has been icy and not all players have been in touch with each other. Hamraouin ranges especially star players Kadidiatou Dianin and Marie-Antoinette Katoton are bad, and according to media reports, Katoto will not agree to a contract if Hamraoui stays with the team.
– All week we have been trying to keep the atmosphere positive. We have a game to win. A full stadium doesn’t bring pressure, on the contrary. We enjoyed a great moment, PSG pilot Didier Ollé-Nicolle declared the match below. (switch to another service)
The club hoped Hamraoui’s shelving would release the atmosphere before an important semi-final match.
Second semi-finals of the Women’s Soccer Champions League PSG-Lyon, Wolfsburg-Barcelona on Saturday 30 April On Youtube’s DAZN channel.