Vivianne Miedema performed the position of super-sub by scoring twice to assist Manchester Metropolis to a 2-0 win over Chelsea within the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.
The outcome additionally noticed Chelsea’s unbelievable 31-game unbeaten run come to an finish, whereas it was additionally the primary defeat a Sonia Bompastor since she took cost of the Blues.
Metropolis began the stronger of the 2 sides, with Kerolin firing astray simply after a minute had been performed earlier than Jill Roord examined visiting goalkeeper Hannah Hampton.
Nick Cushing’s facet continued to push for the opening purpose with out reward within the first half, with the interim Metropolis boss turning to his bench for inspiration at half-time.
Miedema, on to exchange Lily Murphy on the break, made an instantaneous impression and put Metropolis forward on the hour.
Following a teasing nook, Hampton produced a beautiful save to tip the ball onto the crossbar, just for Miedema to smash dwelling the rebound into the roof of the web.
Chelsea supplied little within the attacking third, however went agonisingly near levelling the sport late on when Johanna Rytting Kaneryd’s strike from a decent angle rattled the crossbar, earlier than Wieke Kaptein’s effort was pushed away by goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita.
However, with two minutes remaining, Miedema grabbed her second of the competition with one other wonderful end, letting the ball run throughout her physique earlier than inserting the ball past the grasp of Hampton to seal a formidable first-leg triumph.
It leaves Chelsea with work to do in subsequent week’s second leg at Stamford Bridge as they proceed their quest to win 4 trophies this season.
FULL-TIME | A win within the first leg!
2-0 #ManCity | #UWCL pic.twitter.com/CJTNytdy5v
— Manchester Metropolis Ladies (@ManCityWomen) March 19, 2025
Knowledge Debrief: The streak is over
Heading into the sport on Wednesday, Chelsea knew that avoiding defeat would set a brand new report for the longest ever unbeaten streak by a Ladies’s Tremendous League workforce throughout all competitions, however they have been comfortably second greatest in opposition to Metropolis within the encounter.
Although solely ending the competition with an anticipated targets (xG) of 0.94 to Chelsea’s 1.08, the Residents seemed assured in possession and restricted their opponents to little or no all through, one thing Bompastor has but to navigate in her tenure to this point.
However Metropolis have been helped by the introduction of Miedema, who took the sport by the scruff of its neck to tug her facet to victory. She ended the competition with team-high totals for pictures on track (three) and touches within the opposition field (six).
The outcome additionally noticed Cushing actual some revenge from their League Cup closing defeat, with the 2 sides having received one sport every as they put together for his or her third consecutive assembly, this time within the WSL, on Sunday.
