Olympique Lyonnais 0-1 Chelsea: Guro Reiten strike hands Blues vital first leg advantage in France

Guro Raiten's superb strike has given Chelsea a crucial lead after the away leg in the Champions League quarter-final against Lyon. Just before the half-hour mark, Erin Cuthbert won the ball in the Lyon half and played the ball to Reiten on the left edge of the area and Norwegian star curled an unstoppable effort inside the far post.

Ad The lead could have been doubled 11 minutes before the break when Lauren James cut in from the right flank and fired an effort which came back off the post. Barclays WSLChelsea return to top of the table thanks to Kerr stunner in win over Man Utd12/03/2023 AT 14:37 Lyon's best chance to equalise came on the hour mark when Delphine Cascarino's effort had Ann Katrin Berger beaten but came back off the post.

The return leg will be at Stamford Bridge in eight days. Women’s Champions League tables Women’s Champions League fixtures/results Women’s Champions League top scorers TALKING POINT Changing of the guard? — With a domestic treble, and two doubles in the past four years, Chelsea are the undoubted queens of the English game and have long made their aim to dominate the next frontier.

This deserved victory over the nine-time and reigning Champions League winners suggests they may be on the cusp of this. In truth, but for the chance which fell to Cascarino which was of Chelsea's own making, Lyon hardly threatened in the second half despite the Blues losing key defender Millie Bright on the stroke of half time.

Chelsea's rigid organisation of their back four and sitting midfielders squeezed the creativity out of Lyon, especially after Dzsenifer Marozsan was substituted ten minutes into the second half. Chelsea conversely could have had more and if Sam Kerr had been in her usual form in front