Although dominating, Paris FC footballers failed to bring those of FK Austria Vienne, on Thursday, September 11, during the first leg of the third preliminary round of the Champions League.
In a Jean-Bouin stadium, in Paris, almost empty, and without Gaëtane Thiney, emblematic player who retired last season, Sandrine Soubeyrand’s team conceded a frustrating draw (0-0) who forces them to go and win in Austria, Thursday, September 18, to get their ticket.
The stakes are high: a qualification for the new formula of the Champions Female League, modeled on the principle of male competition, with a mini-championship of eighteen teams-called “League phase” and played from October to December-, in which each club plays six games to reach the quarterfinals or, a lesser evil, the dams.
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In the first period, Parisian women had the most dangerous opportunities: two heads on the transverse bar, one of their new captain, Clara Mateo, several strikes and disputed contact in the area that was not whistled.
The teammates of the French internationals Lou Bogaert and Melween N’Dongala also pushed at the end of the match but, without much risk -taking, they encountered the defense of the Austrians who locked.
It will take more efficiency at Paris FC to join OL Lyonnes and Paris Saint-Germain in the prestigious European competition.
