In the decisive qualifying phase of the Women’s Champions League, the first matches will be played today.
18.9. 20:12•Updated 18.9. 23:05
Captain of the Finnish women’s national football team Tinja-Riikka Korpelan represented by Servette FC lost to AS Roma in the opening round of the decisive qualifying round of the Women’s Champions League with 1–3 goals.
Korpela moved to the Swiss club from AS Roma in the summer.
AS Roma’s victory was deserved, as it took the shots of the match 20–6 and the shots on goal 11–4. Helmareite’s 38-year-old goalkeeper blocked a total of eight scoring attempts in the match.
Servette’s 1-1 equalizer was scored by a Swede in the 55th minute Cassandra Korhonenwho still played in the 2021 season in the National League and Åland United, finishing with 21 goals in his 23 matches.
The guests’ surprise result crumbled at the end, when AS Roma’s Canadian goal Evelyne Viens hit Servette in the 85th minute Paula Serrano as a result of an embarrassing loss of the ball and scored a header in added time in the 90+3 minutes from a corner after the situation to make the final scores 3–1.
The second part will be played at the home of the Swiss league runner-up on September 26.
Women still have a group stage this year
A total of eight opening legs of the women’s UCWL qualifiers were played on Wednesday.
Katariina Kosola represented by Häcken surprised Arsenal 1–0 at home. Tabby Tindell scored the only goal of the game in the 77th minute. Arsenal had a lot of chances in the match, but the Londoners’ powder was wet. In addition, Häcken’s goalkeeper Jennifer Falk fended off a few dangerous situations nicely.
Kosola, the winger of the Finnish women’s national football team, has been absent from the playing fields and Häcken’s lineup due to her recent ankle operation.
Keeper Give it Tamminen and topper Fin Nyström represented by Hammarby IF lost at home to Benfica 1–2. The Finnish duo played the full 90 minutes in the losing match. Goal scoring situations were scored for the Swedish club 14–8 and corner kicks 4–1.
Martha Squirrel was not in Fiorentina’s lineup when the Italian club suffered a 0-7 home loss to Wolfsburg.
With the win of the match pair, you advance to the group stage. The Women’s Champions League will follow the men’s reforms only next season, when the group stage is replaced by a new 18-team league.
In addition, the women will get a new club team competition next season, which will start directly from the playoff stage. In the past, the women’s side has only had one European competition, the Champions League.
The rest of the results and reports of the “Finnish clubs” were added to the story at 23:05.