Celtic took a shock lead against Chelsea in the UEFA Women’s Champions League before the Blues secured a third straight win in the group.
Group A – Galatasaray 0-5 Wolfsburg, Roma 0-3 Lyon
Group B – Real Madrid 7-0 FC Twente, Celtic 1-2 Chelsea
Celtic gave Chelsea a shock when taking a 21st-minute lead on the break, Amy Gallacher’s perfect pass collected by Murphy Agnew and calmy slipped past outrushing keeper Zecira Musovic.
Chelsea had turned the game in their favour ten minutes later, Maika Hamano scoring from an Aggie Beever-Jones cut-back and Ashley Lawrence making it 2-1 on the rebound from Kelsey Daugherty denying Eric Cuthbert.
Daugherty tipped a Catarina Macario strike round the post, Nathalie Bjorn firing an opportunity over the bar after the following corner.
Oriane Jean-Francois hit a rocket that Daugherty turned away, the Celtic keeper then keeping out a header from Beever-Jones, who was sent off at the end for a foul on Collette Cavanagh.
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Also in Group B, Real Madrid coasted to a second win in three games when hitting FC Twente for six. MarĂa MĂŠndez scored twice and there was a goal apiece for Signe Bruun, Naomie Feller, Caroline Weir, Oihane HernĂĄndez and Carla Camacho, although Madrid still sit second to Chelsea on the head-to-head record.
Melchie Dumornay bagged a six-minute brace to give Lyon a 2-0 interval advantage at Roma, Vanessa Gilles got the third as the French side when three points clear at the top.
In the other Group A fixture, Wolfsburg got off the mark with a 3-0 victory away to Galatasaray. Marie-Joelle Wedemeyer’s opener was added to by Rebecka Blomqvist’s second-half treble, her first coming on the rebound from Janina Minge’s 20-yard strike against the bar. Moments after the hat-trick was completed in added time, Vivien Endemann made it 5-0.
