UEFA Women’s Champions League wins for Arsenal and Manchester City | OneFootball

Emily Fox of Arsenal scores a very early goal. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

Manchester City narrowly win 3-2 at St Polten, Arsenal see off Valerenga 4-1 in the UEFA Women’s Champions League Group Stage.

Group C – Juventus 0-2 Bayern Munich, Arsenal 4-1 Valerenga Group D – St Polten 2-3 Manchester City, Barcelona 9-0 Hammarby

Arsenal took only 61 seconds to take the lead, Emily Fox with the finish after good work by Caitlin Foord. They got a second after Tove Enblom parried a Beth Mead effort but Foord was on hand to bury the rebound.

The Norwegian side halved the deficit as Laia Codina lost the ball to Karina Sævik, who set up Olaug Tvedten for a clinical finish past Daphe van Domselaar.

Sævik could have equalised, then with five minutes to go Stina Blackstenius squared for Mariona Caldentey to seal the tie for the Guuners.

Caldentey then turned provider for Alessia Russo in added time.

Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas heads her side into a 3-0 lead. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)

Barcelona struck three first-half goals against Hammarby, Caroline Graham Hansen and Clàudia Pina on target, before Alexia Putellas  headed in Patri Guijarro’s cross.

Mapi Leon made it 4-0 early in the second half, Pina and Graham Hansen doubled their tallies for the evening, Ewa Pajor and Esmee Brugts adding one each, plus  Fridolina Rolfö from the spot.

Alanna Kennedy of Manchester City is challenged by Maria Mikolajova of St. Polten. (Photo by Jasmin Walter/Getty Images)

Manchester City had to launch their own fightback at St Polten, after the Austrian side had come from behind to lead 2-1.

Alanna Kennedy rifled Man City ahead after five minutes from nearly 30 yards via the far post, but the woodwork denied both Aoba Fujino and Mary Fowler. St Polten were level five minutes from half-time, City caught playing out and conceding a corner from which Melanie Brunthaler scored.

Carina Schlüter tipped over a rocker from Fowler, Kamila Dubcová fired the hosts ahead on the turn but City were soon level as Fujino guided Chloe Kelly’s cross home. Gareth Taylor’s side grabbed an 80th-minute winner, as Lauren Hemp swung in a corner and Fowler nodded in the the roof of the net.

Linda Dallmann gave Bayern Munich a 17th-minute lead away to Juventus, with a tap-in from Giulia Gwinn’s corner. The points were sealed with a second goal on 73 minutes, Pernille Harder turning in a Sydney Lohmann delivery from close range.

Thursday’s fixtures: (all live on DAZN)

17:45 – Galatasaray v Roma (also live on DAZN Women’s Football YouTube), Real Madrid v Celtic 20:00 – FC Twente v Chelsea, Wolfsburg v Lyon

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