An Arsenal onslaught with three targets in 13 second-half minutes noticed the Gunners overturn Actual Madrid’s 2-0 first-leg result in arrange a Champions League semi-final with Lyon following their 3-2 combination victory.
The Gunners blew their guests away from the primary whistle following the interval. Even with Actual kicking off, it took solely 44 seconds earlier than Chloe Kelly’s cross was turned dwelling from shut vary by Alessia Russo to spark the comeback into life.
Actual had proved a troublesome nut to crack for wasteful Arsenal earlier than half-time however collapsed following Russo’s opener.
What remained of their lead was snatched away three minutes later when Mariona Caldentey’s header, from one other Kelly cross, slipped by way of the fingers of goalkeeper Misa to stage the tie.
Fittingly, Russo saved the very best objective, which proved to be the winner, for simply 10 minutes later, lashing Steph Catley’s knock-down into the roof of the web from a free-kick, with the ahead in disbelief on the velocity of the Gunners’ comeback.
Russo twice thought she had sealed Arsenal’s place within the last 4 – and the match ball for herself – within the closing phases however noticed each targets dominated out for offsides.
The hosts survived a uncommon Actual Madrid scare late on when Linda Caicedo shot straight at Daphne van Domselaar, however had been in any other case hardly ever troubled on the Emirates in entrance of a document crowd at this stage of the Girls’s Champions League of twenty-two,517.
The victory, which had appeared such a troublesome ask with solely 45 minutes of the tie left, units up a double-header with French champions Lyon within the last 4, on the midweeks of April 19-20 and April 26-27.
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