Key occasions
Tom Garry’s report is in so I’ll bid farewell. Congratulations to Manchester Metropolis – that actually was an excellent group efficiency in opposition to the defending European champions.
An entertaining night for all current.
Naomi Layzell appears as if she’s suffered a difficult harm, an actual disgrace as she was terrific this night, opening the scoring earlier than enjoying in Khadija Shaw for Manchester Metropolis’s second.
FULL-TIME: Manchester Metropolis 2-0 Barcelona
An immense show from Manchester Metropolis involves a detailed. They’ve crushed the very best group on this planet.
90+6 min: Layzell is helped off by the docs.
90+4 min: Layzell wins the ball on Metropolis’s proper however goes down with out anybody round her, clutching her left foot. An exquisite night for her ends on a troublesome observe.
90+3 min: Shaw, a presence at each ends, heads away to present Barcelona one other nook.
90+2 min: Nazareth has room out on the left however Layzell – a purpose and an help tonight – does her factor as Barcelona make do with a nook.
90+1 min: Miedema picks up a wayward ball however can’t play within the advancing Fujino.
90 min: Six minutes are added on … so Barcelona stay on this.
89 min: Aleixandri is off for Kennedy as Metropolis shut in.
87 min: Miedema enjoys a midfield burst earlier than enjoying to Hemp on the left. The ahead recycles the ball again as Metropolis look to only maintain a maintain of it.
85 min: Barcelona make three extra adjustments: Putellas is off for Paredes, Bonmatí makes method for López, and Nazareth replaces Walsh.
84 min: Aleixandri – so sensible tonight – is wriggling round in ache because the physios come on.
82 min: Putellas’ go is intercepted … by the referee’s physique. The whistle goes nevertheless it’s reflective of Barcelona’s night.
80 min: Metropolis are making their adjustments, slowing this sport down. Park and Fowler have each left the sphere. Jill Roord and Aoba Fujino are on.
GOAL! Manchester Metropolis 2-0 Barcelona (Shaw 77)
Shaw delivers. It’s fairly easy, actually: Layzell dinks a ball ahead from the precise, Shaw will get to it, evades a sliding problem, and tries to go across the keeper. Coll doesn’t go down simply, squeezing the angle, however Shaw’s end from the precise squeezes by, beating the keeper and the physique sliding into the online. A historic victory beckons.
75 min: Putellas and Greenwood have a forwards and backwards after the Barcelona ahead goes down within the space.
74 min: Bonmatí tries a curling effort along with her left foot, with the deflected shot looping excessive to problem Yamashita … it clips the bar and goes out for a Barcelona nook.
73 min: Barcelona make one other tweak, with Rolfö changed by Esmee Brugts on the left-hand aspect.
70 min: Metropolis have calmed down with their excessive press, starting a sport of resistance. Walsh has a success inside the world, nevertheless it’s straight at Yamashita. It’s all about hanging in there now for Metropolis.
67 min: Barcelona have a free-kick out on the precise, with Graham Hansen’s ball in headed away.
66 min: Pina is straight into the motion, selecting up in a central place outdoors the world earlier than making an attempt to find the highest proper nook. Her strike isn’t distant in any respect.
64 min: The Barcelona nook doesn’t trigger any hassle. Clàudia Pina replaces Engen for Barcelona. The No 9 for the centre-half; Barcelona imply enterprise.
63 min: Yamashita almost will get in bother enjoying out from the again as Barcelona break right into a press … the guests win a nook.
61 min: Hemp sprints again on the wing to defend for Metropolis; she stays relentless whilst Metropolis start to tire.
59 min: Shaw can also be again to do the soiled defensive work, heading out the nook. Bonmatí will get a shot off from the sting of the field, looking for the underside left nook … however Yamashita cleans up.
58 min: Putellas wins Barcelona a nook after Fowler works again for Metropolis to intervene.
57 min: And proper after my earlier entry, a Barcelona free-kick on the left is wasted, despatched out for a goalkick.
56 min: Yamashita punches away a curling, inviting ball in from the precise by León. Barcelona are eliminating their rust now.
54 min: Barcelona lastly get going, with Graham Hansen enjoying the ball into the field from the precise … the shot is available in … and Aleixandri pulls off a goal-saving block for Metropolis.
54 min: Hemp delivers a teasing ball … however there’s no Metropolis header on the tip of it.
53 min: The sport is being performed largely within the Barcelona half. Park’s cross from the precise is cleared out for a nook by Engen.
50 min: Metropolis’s excessive press continues. Have they, like my Saturday league group, handed round some Haribo at half-time to remain buzzed? In all probability not. However they proceed to run onerous.
48 min: The ball in is superb from Greenwood, and Miedema has a free header … she glances it broad of the far put up. A enormous probability.
47 min: Metropolis work it properly from proper to left earlier than Hemp performs a stunning ball down the channel for Casparij to latch on to … Graham Hansen brings the left-back all the way down to get a yellow. Metropolis have a free-kick.
Peeeep once more!
And we’re again.
Now to see if Metropolis can maintain their high-octane fashion going for one more 45 minutes. Barcelona will certainly discover their rhythm sooner or later, proper? These lot don’t do shedding; they misplaced one match final season.
Some half-time studying for you:
HALF-TIME: Manchester Metropolis 1-0 Barcelona
León sends in a free-kick by the midway line to the sting of the field … however there’s no injury finished to Metropolis. The whistle goes and the Barcelona gamers shortly jog to the tunnel, leaving the Metropolis shirts trailing; the guests know there’s a lot to debate through the break. Metropolis have been glorious.
45+2 min: Fowler launches a success from outdoors the field … nevertheless it flies excessive and over.
45 min: Two minutes are added on.
43 min: Practically a purpose in opposition to the run of play, with Graham Hansen performed by on purpose … she strikes low however straight at Yamashita.
42 min: Metropolis proceed to rattle Barcelona with their excessive press; the defending champions really want that half-time whistle.
38 min: Miedema almost slots in a second for Metropolis however is met by a positive block contained in the Barcelona space. Gareth Taylor’s aspect are thriving.
GOAL! Manchester Metropolis 1-0 Barcelona (Layzell 36)
There it’s! Moments after producing a superb save, Coll errs. She tries to get to a nook to the far put up, however Miedema heads it again into the center the place Naomi Layzell is, able to hook within the opener. It’s simply reward for Metropolis’s first-half excellence.
35 min: Coll pulls off a stunner in purpose! Miedema lays off for Park inside the world, whose first-time hit appears to be heading into the online … Coll leaps to her proper to disclaim Metropolis. Nook.
35 min: Coll races out of her space to disclaim Shaw from getting on the tip of a protracted ball from Greenwood.
33 min: It’s been a terrific first 30 for Metropolis, persevering with to win the ball excessive up the pitch. However a scientific contact evades them … Greenwood crosses into the fingers of Coll.