Chelsea reached the Girls’s Champions League quarter-finals with two video games to spare and stayed excellent beneath Sonia Bompastor with a 3-0 win over Celtic.
Actual Madrid’s 3-2 victory over Twente earlier on Wednesday meant Chelsea solely wanted to attract at Stamford Bridge to make sure development from Group B.
Nonetheless, objectives from Lucy Bronze, Wieke Kaptein and Eve Perisset helped the Blues to their eleventh victory in as many matches beneath former Lyon boss Bompastor.
Simply 65 seconds had handed when Bronze hammered a volley dwelling from Catarina Macario’s nook, as Chelsea regarded to take pleasure in a extra comfy outing after being compelled to come back from behind to win 2-1 at Celtic Park final week.
One other nook led to Chelsea’s second aim within the twenty fifth minute as Guro Reiten swung a beautiful ball in for Kaptein to look dwelling.
The Blues dominated the remainder of the way in which and racked up 25 photographs to Celtic’s three, and so they added a 3rd deep into stoppage time when substitute Perisset transformed from 12 yards following Shannon McGregor’s handball.
Bompastor’s former membership Lyon additionally clinched their spot within the knockout phases as 4 late objectives noticed them beat Roma 4-1 and seal qualification from Group A.
They trailed as late because the 77th minute via a aim from Roma substitute Giulia Dragoni, however two objectives in lower than two minutes Kadidiatou Diani turned the sport on its head.
Substitute Eugenie Le Sommer added a 3rd earlier than Wendie Renard managed a fourth in stoppage time, with Lyon’s superior head-to-head file making certain they will not be overtaken by the Giallorosse.