IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - UEFA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Selma Bacha was again extraordinary in Paris !
UEFA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – SEMI FINAL
OLYMPIQUE LYON FOR THE 11th TIME !
- Like in the first leg, Lyon won his game in Paris with a goal of Haïti’s star Melchie Dumornay and an assist of Amel Majri.
- Like yesterday in London where Barcelona won deserved the game, the best team won today in Paris, where Lyon scored quickly in the 3rd minute with a fantastic goal of Selma Bacha !
- It was today the 4th UEFA Champions League semi final between OL and Paris SG, Lyon winning each time. When they won the 3 first times, they won also the final …
- Tabitha Chawinga (PSG) and Melchie Dumornay (OL) are the speedest players of the UEFA Champions league (33,1 KM/H and 31,7 KM/H).
- Amel Majri played her 301 th game for Olympique Lyon and her 70thChampions League game for Lyon.
- It was today the 12th game between OL and PSG in the UEFA Champions League. 9 wins for Lyon, 2 for Paris, 1 draw.
- The best goalscorers of the UEFA champions League 2023/24 are always Kaditianou Diani (8 goals for Lyon) and Marie Antoinette Katoto (7 goals for PSG).
- In 2022, Lyon won the first leg 3-2 in the semi final like this year ! In the second leg, Lyon won again 2-1 …like today !
- Paris SG has already played and lost two Champions League finals against Frankfurt (2015) and Lyon (2017)
- Olympique Lyon has already played 10 UEFA Champions League finals for 8 titles ! In Bilbao, it will be the 11th final for Lyon (UEFA Record).
- Tabitha Chawinga, already best Goalscorer of the Ligue 1 in France, has a sister Temwa, who was last year IFFHS World’s Best Goalscorer 2023 with 63 goals in China. She went to Kansas City i(USA) in the NWSL, where she scored already 4 goals and leads all rankings (club and scorer).
- The 2024 UEFA Women’s Champions League final will be held in Bilbao (Spain) on May 25. FC Barcelona and Olympique Lyon , the two best teams in Europe, wi