World record crowd at the Clasico
FC Bayern fails dramatically against PSG
03/30/2022 11:36 p.m
The quarter-finals of the women’s Champions League is a huge spectacle. In front of a record crowd of 91,553 spectators, Barcelona beat arch-rivals Real Madrid 5-2. The last squad of FC Bayern Munich sniffs a sensation at Paris St. Germain for a long time. The ending is dramatic.
Decimated by Corona, women’s soccer champion Bayern Munich failed with the last squad in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. After seven cases, the team of coach Jens Scheuer came in the second leg at Paris St. Germain to a 2: 2 (2: 1, 1: 1) after extra time, at the premiere in the Allianz Arena last week it was 1: 2 given.
Saki Kumagai (19th) and Lea Schüller (55th) scored for Bayern, Sandy Baltimore (17th) and Ramona Bachmann (112th) scored for the French champions. PSG meets record winners Olympique Lyon or Juventus Turin in the semi-finals at the end of April (first leg 1: 2). Scheuer had described the COVID outbreak as a “catastrophe” at the wrong time, in the Prinzenpark the head coach was missing a total of eleven regulars due to three long-term injuries and the yellow card suspension for Viviane Asseyi, only two field players took a seat on the bench.
Despite the weakening of the team, the second-placed Bundesliga team got into the game well and the 0-1 came out of nowhere. A cross from Baltimore grew longer and longer, Janina Leitzig in the Bayern goal looked unhappy when she conceded. But the answer came quickly: After a header from Schüller, which Barbora Votikova was only able to fend off with difficulty, Kumagai dusted off. In the second round, the Bayern women, who met leaders VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga summit on Sunday (2 p.m. / MagentaSport), put a lot of pressure on them and earned the lead. Schüller deflected a shot from Klara Bühl into the goal with his elbow.
In front of 27,262 fans, a record for a PSG home game, the Munich team pushed for the third goal. Paris remained harmless for a long time before Leitzig made a brilliant save against Marie-Antoinette Katoto (79′). In the additional 30 minutes, it was the Swiss substitute Bachmann who kicked with a well-placed shot.
World record in Barcelona
91,553 spectators at the Camp Nou experience football history.
(Photo: picture alliance / AA)
The women’s Champions League had previously made football history. In front of a world record crowd of 91,553 spectators in the Camp Nou stadium, the soccer players from defending champions FC Barcelona eliminated arch-rivals Real Madrid on their way to the semi-finals. The team around star player Alexia Putellas won the Clasico in their own arena after a superior performance 5: 2 (1: 1), Barca had already triumphed in the first leg of the quarterfinals (3: 1).
The previous spectator world record for a women’s game came from 1999, when 90,185 fans watched the World Cup final between host USA and China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. At club level, the record number of 60,739 visitors was reached in the duel between Atlético Madrid and Barcelona in 2019.
Barça, which had sold tickets all over the world for the special game, will face the winner of the duel between VfL Wolfsburg and Arsenal in the semi-finals. The second leg will take place on Thursday (6.45 p.m. / DAZN) in the VW Arena, in the first leg there was a 1-1 draw in England.
At the Camp Nou, Real turned the game around former German international Babett Peter after Maria Pilar Leon’s early lead for Barca (8th), Barça responded with three goals within ten minutes. World footballer Putellas (62nd) made the decision 4-2, Caroline Graham Hansen scored the final score (70th).