Lauren James scored the opener before Sjoeke Nüsken added two to give Chelsea a 3-0 win over Ajax in the first leg of their Women’s Champions League quarter-final
Chelsea earned a commanding first-leg lead in their Champions League quarter-final with a controlled 3-0 defeat of Ajax in front of a record women’s football crowd in the Netherlands of 35,991 fans.
Chelsea played themselves into trouble within minutes of kick-off in front of the record crowd, with the goalkeeper Hannah Hampton forced to race out and clear after Kadeisha Buchanan got into a mess and under-hit her back pass., this was a team that earned home wins over Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Roma at the Johan Cruyff Arena to earn their place in the quarter-finals.
Chelsea thought they had doubled their advantage when Reiten miscued her header from James’s cross, saw the ball come off her heel and fall kindly for her to prod in. But after a long VAR check, Nüsken was adjudged to have blocked Kardinaal from a possible clearance off the line.No topic is too small or too big for us to cover as we deliver a twice-weekly roundup of the wonderful world of women’s footballAfter the check Hayes’s side had their two-goal cushion within minutes of the restart.
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