Bayern visit Benfica as Women's Champions League returns in Lisbon | OneFootball

Bayern visit Benfica in Lisbon on Wednesday as the Women's Champions League resumes, aiming to steady themselves after surrendering a two-goal lead to WSL champions Manchester City.

According to BuLi News, this is Bayern's second game of the league phase.

Benfica began with an away win at Juventus through Marit Bratberg’s brace when the league phase started last week.

Bayern edged past 2. Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach in the DFB-Pokal, relying on two late goals from centre-back Vanessa Gilles for a comeback. They host Bayer Leverkusen in the Round of 16.

Domestically, the Frauen-Bundesliga giants have won every game so far, yet recent displays have lacked conviction. Against City, last season's semi-finalists, they dominated before the interval and were second best after it.

Benfica have opened the season with four wins in all competitions. They thrashed Porto 5-1 in the Super Cup and kept clean sheets in their first two Liga BPI matches, then took three points in Turin to surpass last year's winless European campaign.

Benfica held Bayern to a goalless draw in their first Women’s Champions League meeting five years ago. Bayern won the reverse 4-0, then did the double the following season.

More recently, Georgia Stanway, now at Arsenal after leaving Bayern this summer, inspired a comeback 3-2 victory in Lisbon, before Klara Bühl’s brace sealed a 2-0 Bayern win in the latest head-to-head.

Wednesday's tie is at the Estádio da Luz, the stadium where the men's Bayern side last lifted the Champions League in a COVID-19-hit season.

Source: BuLi News

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