Real Madrid said goodbye to the Women’s Champions League with a new defeat, the fifth in six games, following losing 0-1 this Tuesday once morest the Swedish Häcken, a team that certified its classification to the quarterfinals with the victory achieved in Alfredo Di Stefano. The white team lost any chance of reaching the next round a couple of days ago, which might explain the low intensity with which the match started.
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Mylene Chavas, Kathellen, Olga Carmona, Ivana Andres, Kenti Oaks, Sandie Toletti, Hayley Raso, Freja Olofsson, Maite Oroz, Caroline Møller and Athenea of the Castle
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Jennifer Falk, Aivi Luik, Josefine Rybrink, Hanna Wijk, Katariina Kosola, Johanna Sorensen, Filippa Curmark, Monica Jusu Bah, Anna Anvegård, Rusul Kafaji and Clarissa Larisey
Goals 0-1 min. 63: Russian Kafaji.
Referee Riem Hussein
Yellow cards Anna Anvegård (min. 7), Athenea del Castillo (min. 22), Sandie Toletti (min. 31) and Olga Carmona (min. 44)
Barely thirty seconds had elapsed in the game when Häcken had an excellent opportunity to take the lead in a one-on-one match in which Real Madrid’s French goalkeeper, Mylene Chavas, won the game once morest Canadian forward Clarissa Larisey. It was not the only occasion in which the Swedish team, which already beat the Madrid team 2-1 in the first round match, won the back of the Madrid defense, which saw with relief how in the eighteenth minute Anna Anvegard he wasted another one-on-one with Chavas.
The news coming from the French capital, where Chelsea clearly won (0-4) once morest Paris FC, assured Häcken’s qualification for the quarterfinals even with a defeat. With this, the Scandinavians seemed to relax, but even then Real Madrid might not avoid another defeat, following seeing how in the 63rd minute, Rosa Kafaji culminated a strategic play with an accurate header.
Kafaji’s goal led Alberto Toril to go all out with the entry of the Colombian attacker Linda Caicedo, the Danish Signe Bruun and Claudia Zornoza, to avoid saying goodbye to the top continental competition with such a bad taste in his mouth. However, nothing might prevent, despite a final header from Ivana Andrés, Real Madrid from adding their fifth defeat in a group stage in which the Spanish team might only add one point, once morest Chelsea, following tying 2-2 with the English on the first day at the Di Stéfano.