Olympique Lyonnais’ flawless performance in the Women’s Champions League continues. After beating Galatasaray, Wolfsburg and AS Roma for the first time, the Lyonnaises reversed a bad situation in the return match to score a fourth success (4-1) and qualify for the quarter-finals. With six points ahead of Wolfsburg and their evening opponents, this is indeed acquired.
Despite everything, Joe Montemurro’s players suffered a lot to get the three points. Dominant but clumsy, the Lyonnaises had all the difficulty in the world to open the score. Worse, it was the Romans who scored first, in the 74th minute, via Giulia Dragoni, forgotten by the central pair Renard-Gilles.
The French reaction, however, was not long in coming. Three minutes later, Kadidiatou Diani, who entered the game in the 63rd minute, received a ball pushed by Gilles following a corner. A goal which freed the former Paris Saint-Germain striker and allowed her to score a second from a new corner by placing a volley under the crossbar.
The difference was made, the Lyonnaises liberated. In the 89th minute, a few seconds after coming on, Eugénie Le Sommer definitively reassured her team, before Wendie Renard set the final score.
