With all eyes in the UEFA Women's Champions League (UWCL) semifinals, fans could be forgiven to forget another weekend busy in the largest national leagues in Europe, but there were many things.
The first thing is the first, Barcelona put the sword in a miserable Chelsea look at Stamford Bridge, completing an aggregate victory of 8-2 before Arsenal left Lyon surprised with a memorable return to reserve his place in the final.
Meanwhile, in the Super League of English women, Crystal Palace confirmed his descent for an imperative team of West Ham United that shot seven goals beyond the hosts on a Sunday when Manchester City kept his European football hopes alive with a 1-0 victory in Leicester City.
In La Frauen-Bundesliga, Bayern Munich claimed his third consecutive title with two leftover games after Leipzig lost 3-0 to SGS Essen. In Italy, Fiorentina surprised Juventus of the newly crowned champions with a 3-1 victory, Milan Blue emphatically painted after her 4-1 Derby della Madonnina Triumph and Lazio hit like four goals without response.
Finally, in Spain, it was another frantic weekend to try to avoid the fall of those who languish at the foot of the League F. table but, with three games to play, there are still many possibilities of drama, since Real Madrid (which defeated Madrid CFF 7-3) will be conscious as they continue to bite the heels of Barcelona.
Chelsea euro dreams faded again
For the first time in 18 years, the gunners have reached a continental final. His 4-1 victory over eight times Lyon champions revoked a 2-1 deficit in the first leg, ensuring his ticket to Lisbon for the final, a stage they have not reached since the 2006-07 win, when the competition was still known as the UEFA Women's Cup. They also become the first English team to reach the final since 2021, when Chelsea suffered a 4-0 defeat against Barcelona in Gothenburg, a painful memory for the blues repeated in Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Chelsea suffered a humiliating exit. Despite losing by little against Barcelona in the semifinal stage in each of the last two seasons (1-0 together in both times), they were exhaustively defeated 4-1 again, colliding 8-2 together against the reigning champions.
This season was aimed at marking a new era for Chelsea under 2021-22, UWCL winning coach, Sonia Bompastor, whom he had the task of delivering the continental success that eluded Emma Hayes during her 12-year reign. After the consecutive semifinal anguish, Chelsea seemed closer than ever before this campaign, but after a crushing deficit of six goals, they now seem so far from European glory as always. – Ek
Bayern, Deutsche Meister
In October, while Bayern was traveling to Wolfsburg, there was already talk that a victory at the Volkswagen Arena would be equivalent to a third consecutive title. That day, in fact, the hosts were the victorious. The following month, the Bavarian approached Freiburg and in the home of Eintracht Frankfurt in the period of five days. And for a while, it seemed that there would be a four -way sprint to the finish line, but one by one, the challengers fell.
From Wolfsburg's stumbling blocks, to Bayer Leverkusen runs out of steam, to Frankfurt suffering two critical losses after Winter sternOnly one team remained in the course, refusing to drop a single point after that pair of draws in November.
It has not always been perfect or beautiful for the Bavarians this season, but the quality of Bayern shone every time they went out to the domestic action field with Klara Bühl and the Danish superstar Pernille Pernille (which can now boast 10 successive league titles with four different teams) leading the accusation as the team has labeled with injuries and blows throughout the year.
Although Chief coach Alexander Straus has already announced his departure to join the Angel City FC in the NWSL at the end of this season, his mandate in Germany has marked the change of the guard as Munich has consolidated its place in the upper part of the tree. – SL
Glass roof crystal palace
The Crystal Palace debut season in the highest category ended in heartbreak, since an overwhelming 7-1 defeat against West Ham confirmed its descent. Without escaping the fall, they will return to the second level for the 2025-26 campaign.
Palace fought throughout the season, collecting only nine points of two victories and three draws. An energetic victory over Aston Villa of the 11th placement briefly offered hope, reducing the gap to a safe place. However, a series of defeats, combined with the crucial victories of Villa, saw the gap expand to seven points. With only two remaining games, the Eagles finally ran out of time for a late rebirth.
It is a story that has become too familiar for newly promoted teams. Like Bristol City last season, Crystal Palace has suffered an immediate decline. The gap between the WSL and the championship seems broader than ever, which suggests that it is unlikely that the yoyo pattern between the divisions will end soon. – Ek
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Arsenal Reach UwCl for the first time in 19 years
The Arsenal has reached the UEFA Women's Champions League final for the first time in 19 years after beating Lyon 5-3 together.
Fast blows
EIGHT. The lionesses that return give the city more reasons to smile. On Sunday afternoon he did not marked the first time in the recent history that Leicester City has bicked things for Manchester City, but, as they have done on previous occasions, Sky Blues found a path thanks to the winner of Jess Park. The three points are enough to maintain a slight flash of an open Top Three ending for the city. But the moment for visitors was the return duo of England Lauren Hemp and Alex Greenwood, who had been marginalized since last year.
SEVEN. Inter finally claims Derby's honors. Even when Elisa Poli slipped through the AC Milan box, ready to send the ball to the lower corner and restore Inter the leadership of Inter, there was the question of whether the Nerazzurre Finally, I could maintain an advantage in the Derby of Milan, after three frustrating raffles already this season. But instead of implication, visitors in Vismara only strengthened their advantage, adding a couple of late goals through Tessa Wullaert for a well -deserved victory over their city rivals. But beyond victory, Inter confirmed a second place, the highest in six years in series A, and a European position for next season.
SIX. The Spanish descent career is heated. With three days of matches of the Liga F season, whose image will be launched on the second level has not yet focused with the 2-0 victory of Valencia to the true society enough to keep their hopes of survival alive, although they remain routed to the floor of the table. Still hanging in the fall zone, but at a moving security distance, Betis will ruin the two points that dropped after Natalia Padilla-Bidas canceled Rosa Márquez's first game, especially with Tenerife and Barcelona still to come. Similarly, both Levante and Espanyol improved with the respective raffles against Atleti and Eibar, but they are not at home and are still dry.
FIVE. The Russian mountain of Fiorentina once again. Having finished the Italian title last weekend, his first Escudón For three years: Juventus could well have expected to continue the party in Florence on Friday, but quickly ran into a Fiorentina team that again found its touch of goal, and more bravely, its balance throughout the field. One of the most erratic teams in Italy this season, the viola could still alter the probabilities and be ending over Rome to claim the third and last place in the League of Champions of the Serie A, but as always this year, the Fiorentina team that appears is as predictable as a coin launch.
Four. Leipzig can't take the flight, again. Even only nine years, and only in its second season in the frauen-bundesliga, possibly wait too much from the Roten Bullen To be a constant team of the table in the middle of the table, but after the 3-0 defeat of Leipzig at home to Essen on Saturday, RB is now without a victory in five, unable to even disturb the SGS backup goalkeeper, Kim Sindermann during the weekend. Unlike Essen, one of the latest FBL independent teams, RB is very capable of spending large during the summer to further strengthen your team, with these first years by providing a more learning experience, even when this season Peters out.
THREE. Le Bihan shines for him Biancocelesti. Two teams that exchange painting throughout the season, such as and Lazio have performed convincing performances this season, a first season for both in their current iterations, and have also developed an exciting games, since both have adapted to the highest category of Italy. At his last meeting of the campaign, it was Lazio who came out at the top, thanks in large part to the Hat Trick of Clarisse Le Bihan who scores the 4-0 victory for visitors. Although it is still early, the inclusion of both in series A only seems to add more chaos in the future.
TWO. The goalkeepers have a vacation in Madrid. The Belter of Filippa Angeldahl of 25 yards was, without a doubt, the choice of the group since Real Madrid played a crazy 7-3 victory against Madrid CFF. Although White ' Objectives, including the orthopedic devices of Filippa Angeldal and Alba Redondo, the arrest time strike of Linda Caiceda, as well as the ninth of the Caroline Weir season, the visitors managed to score three and, possibly, they should have had at least two more with the careless defense of Real at all times.
ONE. The seagulls end up in a high. As Brighton & Hove Albion fans have quickly leaning this season, a Vidosic Dario team will rarely play boring football and even if the consistency, so far, is missing for the seagulls (who have had to play with their fair part of injuries this season), the emotion is not. Far from Everton on Sunday afternoon, Brighton was again a box office, arriving from behind twice before stealing the three points in an additional time thanks to the low unit of Nikita Parris. And although it was a team effort of visitors in Walton Hall Park, Parris continued to show its value as an experienced boss in the team that combines maturity with youth exuberance. – SLE
