Wolfsburg vs Arsenal LIVE: Women’s Champions League result, final score and reaction as Gunners crash out
Wolfsburg 2-0 Arsenal (3-1 agg): Follow reaction as the Gunners exit the Women’s Champions League at the quarter-final stage
Arsenal travelled to Germany to take on Wolfsburg in the second leg of their Women’s Champions League quarter-final and the German side won 2-0 on the night to triumph 3-1 on aggregate.
Former Arsenal player Jill Roord poked home from close range to put Wolfsburg ahead in the first half at the Volkswagen Arena and that advantage was doubled when Leah Williamson turned Sveindis Jonsdottir’s cross past Manuela Zinsberger for an own goal with 17 minutes to go.
The Gunners hit the bar through Vivianne Miedema shortly after that but were largely outplayed by their hosts and exited the Women’s Champions League at the last-eight stage.
In a closely-fought first-leg contest Tabea Wassmuth had given the Frauen-Bundesliga side the lead at the Emirates Stadium before Lotte Wubben-Moy’s late equaliser earned Arsenal a draw to leave them on level terms with their hosts halfway through the tie.
The Volkswagen Arena which was also the venue of Arsenal’s WCL semi-final defeat in 2013. Wolfsburg won the second leg 2-1 at home to progress to the final that year and now, in 2022, they will face current WCL holders Barcelona in the semi-finals.
Follow the reaction from the Volkswagen Arena as Wolfsburg beat Arsenal:
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Arsenal vs Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg have won four of their previous five Women’s Champions League matches against English clubs in Wolfsburg, drawing the other game.
They have lost only two of their previous 13 European matches against English clubs with eight wins and three draws in that run.
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24-year-old Jill Roord scored two goals in the 4-1 Frauen-Bundesliga victory at Eintracht Frankfurt on 26th March, taking her to a club-high nine league goals this season.
The midfielder joined Wolfsburg in May 2021 after two seasons with Arsenal, where she hit successive Women’s Super League hat-tricks in the space of six days in September 2020.
Roord was named Player of the Match after scoring in the 3-0 away win against Servette on 8th December, and was also on target against Arsenal’s domestic rivals Chelsea on Matchday 1.
The Dutch international has won European Championships at both Under-19 (2014) and senior level (2017), and struck four goals in the Netherlands’ Women’s Euro 2022 qualifying campaign.
Wolfsburg vs Arsenal: Barcelona await winners
The winners of this tie will take on European champions Barcelona after they defeated Real Madrid 8-3 on aggregate - with a women’s world record crowd of 91,553 at the Nou Camp watching Wednesday’s second leg.
Barcelona smashed the attendance record for women’s football after a crowd of 91,553 watched them progress to the semi-finals of the Champions League with victory over rivals Real Madrid.
Leading 3-1 from the first leg and roared on by a partisan Nou Camp, the reigning champions won 5-2 on the night and 8-3 on aggregate to set up a last-four meeting with either Arsenal or Wolfsburg.
The previous highest turnout for a women’s club game came in 2019 when 60,739 people saw Barca beat Atletico Madrid 2-0 at Wanda Metropolitano.
Wednesday evening’s crowd at Europe’s largest stadium also dwarfed the record for spectators at a women’s international, set when 80,203 fans witnessed the United States secure Olympic gold by beating Japan 2-1 at Wembley during London 2012.
‘They are an example’: Barcelona Women set for record Nou Camp fixture
The Nou Camp was sold out in days when Barcelona drew Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Women’s Champions League. A record attendance would be fitting for a team that has taken the women’s game to new levels
Wolfsburg vs Arsenal: Stroot on reaching semis
Wolfsburg coach, Tommy Stroot, says his tema are prepared for anything that Arsenal can throw at them this evening as they look to progress to the Women’s Champions League sem-finals.
"We are prepared for everything, even if we don’t know exactly what Arsenal are going to do.” he said: “We know it’s a knockout game, comparable to a DFB Cup game. We can actually delete the first-leg result because it starts at 0-0 and there can only be one winner.
“We already have a huge wealth of experience from the past season and can look back on many games in which we found answers to a wide variety of situations."
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Tabea Wassmuth is an attacking midfielder for Wolfsburg and was named Player of the Match in the first-leg draw, winning the award for the third time this season, more than any other player.
The 25-year-old’s goal against the Gunners was her ninth in this season’s Women’s Champions League, which is more than any other player in the competition proper.
She has scored in all but two of her European appearances this season including qualifying, drawing a blank only against Bordeaux in September and Juventus in November.
Wolfsburg vs Arsenal: How to watch Women’s Champions League fixture online tonight
Tabea Wassmuth gave Wolfsburg the lead in the first leg but Lotte Wubben-Moy’s crucial late equaliser brought Arsenal parity halfway through the tie.
These two met in the 2013 semi-finals, when Wolfsburg won 2-1 in the second leg. Just like then, the match will be held at the men’s Volkswagen Arena.
Here is everything you need to know.
Wolfsburg vs Arsenal
Arsenal, whose journey in this season’s tournament began in round 1, have made it to a record 14th quarter-final. The 2006/07 winners are aiming for a first semi-final appearance since 2012/13, when they were beaten by Wolfsburg.
Jonas Eidevall’s side have already lost on German soil this season, going down 4-1 at Hoffenheim in their final Group C match on 15th December.
Wolfsburg vs Arsenal
Wolfsburg have reached this stage of the competition for a tenth campaign in a row – a competition best – although they fell at this hurdle to English opposition last season, losing 2-1 away and 3-0 at home to eventual finalists Chelsea.
This is the She-Wolves’ 79th Women’s Champions League match, overtaking 1. FFC Frankfurt’s German record.
Wolfsburg have won 55 matches in this competition – a figure bettered by only Lyon (94) and Arsenal (56).
Wolfsburg vs Arsenal: Wassmuth on conceding late at Emirates
Tabea Wassmuth is the top goalscorer in the Champions League this season with nine goals in the competition including one against Arsenal in the first leg of this tie.
She spoke after that game saying that Wolfsburg were disappointed not to hang on to the win and will be ready for the second leg tonight saying:
We are disappointed as we had chances to make it 2-0. But there is the second leg to play back home and we’ll be ready for it.
"I don’t know why it is going so well for me in the Champions League this season. But I’m working hard so I guess that is the key to my success.”
Wolfsburg vs Arsenal: The first leg
Lotte Wubben-Moy struck an 89th-minute equaliser to earn Arsenal a 1-1 draw at home to Wolfsburg in the first leg of their Women’s Champions League quarter-final.
The Gunners, who remain in pursuit of the treble, looked set for a narrow defeat with Tabea Wassmuth’s first-half effort the difference between the sides going into the latter stages.
Wubben-Moy proved the unlikely hero for the Women’s Super League leaders with only her fifth goal for the club to ensure there is plenty to play for ahead of tonight’s return meeting in Germany.
Lotte Wubben-Moy scores late equaliser for Arsenal in first leg against Wolfsburg
Arsenal 1-1 Wolfsburg: Wubben-Moy’s late strike cancelled out Tabea Wassmuth’s first-half header to leave the Champions League quarter-final tie in the balance
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