the Lyonnais team maintained a draw in Turin and temporarily took the lead, the first win for PFC

Getting off to a poor start, Jonathan Giraldez’s men picked up points in the draw in Italy on Wednesday night.

Distribution of points after the match with a crazy scenario. Lyon won one point from a draw at Juventus Turin (3-3), ahead of the fourth day of the Champions League league phase, Wednesday 19 November, at the Stadio Vittorio Pozzo. Trailing 3-0 at the end of a doomed first half, they came from behind once in the dressing room, and even thought they had the winning goal at the end of stoppage time thanks to Jule Brand (90+3), ultimately being flagged in an offside position.

While the Lyon team was heading towards their first European defeat of the season on the Juventus pitch, they managed to snatch a late draw. Solid from the penalty spot against French goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, captain Wendie Renard allowed her team to equalize and save the fixture in the final minute of regulation time (90th).

The end of a crazy comeback in the second half by the OL Lyonnes players, attacking a three-goal deficit to make up for a disastrous first period, where they were crucified by an Italian team that was very efficient on the counter-attack (3 shots on target, 3 goals). Tabitha Chawinga launched a rebellion on the hour (60th) with her first Champions League goal of the season, then Marie-Antoinette Katoto added her second a quarter of an hour after coming on (79th). Before Wendie Renard’s decisive penalty, he was already the goal scorer in training against Wolfsburg on day 3.

This is a positive result when viewed from the meeting scenario, but it does not prevent Jonatan Giraldez’s men from losing their first points of the season on the European stage, against opponents who have already held them back in the group stage in 2022. However, for the time being they are still in control of the league standings, while waiting for the results of other matches.

In another match of the evening for French clubs, Paris FC players achieved their first victory on the European stage this season by winning against Benfica (2-0), another team that is in the second half of the standings (15th at kick-off). In front of their home crowd in Jean-Bouin, the Parisiennes were able to capitalize on their numerical advantage from the 30th minute of the game, after Denmark’s Caroline Moller was shown a second yellow card.

They were put into orbit by young Maeline Mendy, a promising prospect on loan from Olympique Lyonnais, and creator of the opening score before the break (43rd). Maëlle Garbino doubled the lead in the 62nd minute by heading in a perfectly adjusted cross. Under pressure in the final minutes against a Portuguese player who found colour, Sandrine Soubeyrand’s players held on to validate the result. They have provisionally moved up to 10th, in the play-off qualifying spot.