Bayern leave Biella with the points | OneFootball

The Juventus Women’s First Team fell to their first loss of the season on Wednesday night after nine straight wins to open the campaign, with Bayern Munich managing to leave Biella with all three points on Women’s Champions League Matchday 2, allowing the Bavarians to take charge of the group.

It was a spirited showing from the Bianconere who, in the end, couldn’t keep the German champions out as goals from Linda Dallman and Pernille Harder proved enough to settle the game.

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The game started with the Bianconere put under immediate pressure. Having faced Bayern in a September friendly, it came as no surprise that they were a top European side, and Juventus looked to weather the storm as the rain bucketed down in Biella.

Having made it through a quarter of an hour with the clean sheet still intact, that defensive resilience was broken by Linda Dallman after 17 minutes. A corner fell in the box and after having bounced around a little, it was turned towards Dallman and she finished from close range, denying Pauline Peyraud-Magnin a clean sheet to mark her 100th appearance for Juventus.

Lisa Boattin came close to a leveller when she curled an effort off the upright, and Arianna Caruso met a cross with her head but couldn’t turn it on target.

From there the Bianconere continued to show fight, despite being up against it. Caruso had penalty appeals waved away, and pressure was put on the Bayern backline, but they stood firm.

Amalie Vangsgaard had a chance to level the scores in the second half but the Dane’s effort went just inches wide of finding the bottom corner.

Bayern were the next side to score though, with Pernille Harder doing well and managing to turn home their second after fighting for the space to get a shot off.

Juventus, then, suffered their first setback of the season in their 10th competitive game across all competitions, but remain on three points in the group.

Now, all eyes are on Sunday’s trip to Milan to take on Inter in Serie A.