Las Blancas were five points behind before the Matchday 22 games. However, a 2-2 draw against 13th-place Deportivo was a huge blow. Barca capitalized, winning 2-0 at UD Tenerife to extend their lead at the top of the standings. (Source: si.com)
Real Madrid face Barcelona in a crucial encounter. Barca Women are seven points at the top of Liga F with eight games remaining. A win for Real will give them a slim chance of catching their rivals.
Manchester City return to Women's Super League action this weekend, as they continue their battle for a top-three position with a fixture with Chelsea. Manchester City had a big European week, beating rivals Chelsea 2-0 in the first leg of their quarter-final Champions League tie. (Source: Man City Square)
European champions Spain are on a 22-match unbeaten run, but they rarely get easy wins against the Netherlands.
Chelsea emerged victorious from last Sunday's Women's League Cup final, while the Citizens claimed a 2-0 win in Wednesday's Women's Champions League clash.
England Women are facing another impasse with the Football Association over bonuses, with the squad yet to agree to the terms they have been offered for their European Championship defence this summer.
Two early goals saw TSG Hoffenheim race to a lead in the DFB-Pokal Frauen Semifinals, but Bayern Munich roared back through a Pernille Harder hat-trick to book a date to the Final in Cologne.
Hoffenheim caused a stir in the quarter-finals by knocking out Wolfsburg, who have won the cup in 11 of the last 12 years. Ereleta Memeti scored the only goal to ensure that for the first time since FCB in 2012, a team other than the She-Wolves will lift the cup in Cologne. (Source: fcbayern.com)
The Munich girls progressed to the last four after a drama in the quarter-finals against Eintracht Frankfurt. Jovana Damnjanović left it until the 90th minute to level the score at 1-1, before goals from Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir, Momoko Tanikawa and another from Damnjanović made it 4-1 in extra time.
Arsenal Women will welcome Liverpool Women to the Emirates Stadium for Saturday's Women's Super League encounter. The Gunners are sitting in second place in the WSL standings, while the visitors head into the weekend in fifth position. (Source: Sports Mole)
They lost this fixture in the league last season and went out at home to Liverpool in the FA Cup a few weeks ago. In the reverse fixture, Arsenal eked out a 1-0 win and didn’t find the away fixture much easier last season either. In short, Liverpool’s physicality and ability to play in transition have proved difficult for Arsenal to deal with.
Liverpool won 1-0 in this fixture last season and will be aiming to win back-to-back away games in the WSL against Arsenal for the second time, also doing so in July 2015/July 2016.
Crystal Palace will attempt to claim back-to-back victories when they travel to Walton Hall Park for Saturday's Women's Super League clash against Everton.
Meanwhile, the Toffees will be looking for a positive response after falling to a 3-1 defeat in last Saturday's home clash with Arsenal. (Source: Sports Mole)
Maren Mjelde has paid tribute to Everton Women’s fanbase and has called on the Blues faithful to bring their ‘amazing’ support this weekend ahead of the Toffees’ WSL clash with Crystal Palace.
Kennedy Fuller scored in the ninth minute to give Angel City the early lead. But Turner scored her first regular season NWSL goal, tapping in a bouncing corner in the 30th to pull the Thorns even in their home opener.
In 2014, Wolfsburg won their second title in Lisbon, where the final will again be held this season, but to get there they have to end Barcelona's hopes of a third title in a row (and fifth consecutive final). Wolfsburg did show their grit when recovering from losing their first two group games to make up a six-point gap on Roma. Barcelona themselves were beaten on Matchday 1 at Manchester City but were to score 26 goals in the five straight wins that clinched first place. (Source: Uefa.com)
The last occasion two-time champions Wolfsburg and holders Barcelona met was the dramatic 2023 final in Eindhoven, when the German side led at half-time only to lose 3-2, the winner scored by their former player Fridolina Rolfö.
Chelsea have been nothing shy of dominant this season, with new manager Sonia Bompastor overseeing a seamless transition into a new era following Emma Hayes' departure last year. The Blues remain unbeaten in all competitions and their hopes of claiming a historic quadruple remain intact after they beat City in Saturday's Women's League Cup final. (Source: 90min.com)
This tie comes in a run of four consecutive games between the pair as they first met on Saturday in the English Women's League Cup final in Derby – Chelsea winning 2-1 for their first trophy under Sonia Bompastor – and they will face each other again next Sunday in Manchester in the Women's Super League.
Lyon are well placed to progress from a UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-final for the 14th time in 16 attempts after a 2-0 victory at Bayern München.
Goals in either half from Linda Caicedo and Athenea del Castillo secured victory for the Spanish side in the first leg against Renée Slegers’s team.
FC Bayern Women finished the group stage of the Champions League on 13 points to qualify for the quarter-finals. After remaining unbeaten in the first five games of the group stage, head coach Alexander Straus' side lost 3-2 to Arsenal on the final matchday despite a brace from Magdalena Eriksson and had to settle for second place. (Source: fcbayern.com)
These teams have previously met in a quarter-final, when the 2019/20 last eight onwards was reformatted into a one-venue tournament due to COVID and Lyon defeated Bayern 2-1 in Bilbao on their way to lifting the trophy for the fifth straight year and seventh overall.
Arsenal travel to the Spanish capital on Tuesday evening and take on Real Madrid in the first leg of their UWCL quarter-final tie.
The Gunners have developed into an efficient winning machine with Renee Slegers at the helm, with Jonas Eidevall's successor claiming 18 victories from 22 games. Their success hasn't been limited to domestic adventures either. (Source: 90min.com)
Madrid reached the quarter-finals in their debut campaign in 2021/22, losing to Barcelona, and are now back after two consecutive group stage exits. Both of those were to Chelsea and Madrid began their group campaign this time with a third away loss in London, but then put together a four-game winning run against Celtic and Twente to progress.