The last eight teams have now been decided in the UEFA
Women’s Champions League having progressed to Thursday’s draw to see who they
will be playing in the quarter finals.
After a 3-0 win against Glasgow City in the first leg,
Arsenal travelled to Petershill on Wednesday with a good advantage. However Glasgow weren’t going to give up on
their European aspirations, with a spirited second leg performance. Within 2 minutes Suzanne Lappin had put the
home side in the lead before Rachel Yankey made it one-all 10 minutes later.
The visitors then had to wait until the 69th
minute before another goal was scored, this time from Jordan Nobbs however
Glasgow City Captain Rachel Corsie brought them right back into it at 2- 2 with
10 minutes to go.
The game stayed level until Alex Scott finished off the
scoring in injury time making it 3-2 on the night, a convincing but hard-fought
aggregate score of 6-2 to Arsenal.
Birmingham City played Russian Champions Zorky at St Andrews
on the same night. They went into this
game with the upper hand after winning 2-0 in Russia. Isobel Christiansen and
Kirsty Linnet put the home side 2 up early on in the first half before Maria
Ruiz and Ashley Nick equalised for Zorky before half time.
Linnet scored again in the second half along with team mates
Kerys Harrop and Melissa Lawley to make the final score 5-2 (aggregate 7-2).
The following teams are in the draw for the Quarter Finals
which will be decided on Thursday, all hoping to make it to the final in the
Estadio do Restelo, Lisbon in May:
FFC Turbine Potsdam (GER)
Arsenal LFC (ENG)
ASD Torres CF (ITA)
Birmingham City LFC (ENG)
FC Barcelona (ESP)
SV Neulengbach (AUT)
Tyreso FF (SWE)
VFL Wolfsburg (GER)
Profiles of each of these clubs can be found here: Uefa.com
*images from Glasgow City & Birmingham City websites
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