The women of Kuopio Palloseura’s dream of reaching the group stage of the Champions League lives on when the team won 2-1 against the Danish champions in the second half.
The reigning Finnish champion of women’s football, Kuopio Palloseura, rose from a 0-1 loss in the second half to a jubilant 2-1 victory on the away field against Denmark’s HB Köge in the women’s Champions League qualifying tournament, from which only the winner continues to the 2nd qualifying round of the UWCL.
– Everyone has been waiting for this tournament all year and Wednesday’s game is our biggest match of the year so far, said the head coach of KuPS Pauliina Miettinen before the match.
After the break, he got on the field from the substitution Lavdije Begolli immediately came rushing into the game and was able to complete the 1–1 equalizer for KuPS Gentjana Rochin from the preliminary work at the beginning of the second half, in the 48th minute.
After that, control of the game and control of the ball passed to the people of Kuopio, while Köge invested more in counterattacks.
The match saw a dramatic but well-deserved end, when KuPS’s Yankee topper, who also entered the field in the second half Hannah Sharts header from a corner kick for a 2–1 winning goal 90+3. by the minute.
HB Köge, who played in the group stage of the Women’s Champions League last season, scored the lead goal in the opening half Cecilie Floe in the 30th minute of the match.
On Saturday, KuPS will face Serbian champion ZFK Spartak Subotica in the final of the qualifying tournament starting at 5 p.m., who beat KI Klaksvik from Faroe Islands 7-0 earlier today.
Last summer, KuPS won the four-team qualifying tournament played in Poland, but in the second qualifying round of the Champions League, they fell dramatically and narrowly to St. Pölten from Austria, who advanced to the UWCL group stage of the top 16 women’s teams.
The story will be completed later. It was corrected at 22:21 that Hannah Sharts scored KuPS’s winning goal, not Emma Santamäki.