Women’s Champions League: Barcelona cruises into fifth straight semifinal
BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona cruised into the final 4 of the Women’s Champions League for the fifth straight 12 months by routing Roma 5-1 within the second leg of the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
Barcelona superior 6-1 on mixture and can face defending champion Lyon or Chelsea in April’s semifinals.
Lyon beat Barcelona 3-1 in final 12 months’s last.
Fridolina Rolfö scored twice within the first half and Mapi León added one other to make it 3-0 by the break. Asisat Oshoala and Patri Guijarro scored two extra shortly after interval earlier than Annamaria Serturini netted a comfort purpose for Roma.
After profitable the opening leg 1-0 at Stadio Olimpico in Rome in entrance of a record-setting crowd of 39,454, Barcelona dominated from the beginning at Camp Nou.
Oshoala knocked down a cross for unmarked Rolfö within the eleventh minute to fireside residence a low shot from 10 meters (yards) to double the mixture lead.
Some 20 minutes later, León unleashed an unstoppable left-foot drive from effectively outdoors the world that gave diving Roma goalkeeper Camelia Ceasar no likelihood.
In first-half stoppage time, Caroline Graham Hansen broke down the best to supply a exact cross for Rolfö on the far publish to faucet in her second.
Just seconds within the second half, Aitana Bonmatí offered one other completely timed cross from the best for Oshoala to make it 4-0 from shut vary. And minutes later, Guijarro headed in Hansen’s nook for the fifth.
Arsenal hosted Bayern Munich in one other quarterfinal later Wednesday.
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