Real Madrid, Wolfsburg grab win in Women’s Champions League
Wolfsburg picked up their first points in the Women’s Champions League this season with a 5-0 win at Galatasaray on Wednesday, while Real Madrid thrashed Twente.
The 2013 and 2014 Champions League winners started their latest campaign with back-to-back defeats against Lyon and Roma, leaving them third in Group A and in real danger of not progressing to the knock-out stages.
Defender Joelle Wedemeyer’s 24th-minute header from a corner gave them the lead in Istanbul and Rebecka Blomqvist wrapped up the points with a tap-in on 63 minutes after Janina Minge’s long-distance effort rebounded off the underside of the bar.
The Swedish striker stroked home a third for the team with 13 minutes remaining and then rounded off her hat-trick six minutes into added time.
Vivien Endemann smashed home a fifth for Wolfsburg in the 97th minute.
The result provisionally allows Wolfsburg to close the gap to the group’s leaders to three points.
A third successive defeat in three outings leaves the Turks bottom of the table with just one goal scored and 14 conceded.
In Group B, Real Madrid saw off Dutch side, Twente, with a 7-0 win in Spain.
Signe Bruun opened the scoring in the third minute, before centre-half Maria Mendez nodded in her first goal in European football 13 minutes later.
Naomie Feller guided in a third on 50 minutes and Caroline Weir soon after curled an unstoppable free-kick over the wall and into the top corner.
Mendez then doubled her tally in the competition with a second header from a corner three minutes after the hour, before Oihane Hernandez and Carla Camacho completed the rout.
The Spaniards sit second in the group with six points, behind leaders Chelsea on head-to-head record. -Supersport
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