Women Arsenal 1-2 Lyon Women: Gunners falls on the first leg in the semifinals of the Women’s Champions League

Arsenal must come from behind to achieve this season’s Champions League exhibition in Lisbon after falling to a semi-final defeat of 2-1 legs from Lyon.

The French champions and last year’s competitive runners were traps faster and took the lead early through the Kadidiatou Diana-Nenjezin strike awarded by Var after being wrongly judged by officials on the field.

But Arsenal arrived in the second period and drew a well -deserved level when Leah Williamson was demolished in the box, allowing Marion Caldentey to throw out a sentence out of Christiane Endler.

Gunners missed the chances of turning the tie completely on their heads – Beth Mead and Frida Maanum were both guilty of stimuling the header – which just served to raise the ghosts of visitors, although they were comfortably surpassed after a break.

Melchie Dimornay then had the last word with another quick interruption. The striker, who scored 15 goals in the country this season, ran between Arsenal’s central escapes, and was eight minutes left to drill a shot beside the desperate Manuel Zinsberger, with the best efforts of Emily Fox to score ahead.

Analysis: The second half should be Arsenal’s draft

Arsenal was ultimately punished for the atypically passive effect of the first half. Rarely has this element of their game, present at the support of Jonas Eidevall’s reign, re -appeared under Renee Slegers. Instead, they are used to being the opposite – so often the aggressor.

In contrast, this screen felt like the one dominated by Lyon’s history in this competition. The Gunners have prevailed in the first period. They gave the French side too much respect and space to play without creating much in the opposite direction.

“If we interrupted the first print of Arsenal, we knew we could find solutions,” Joe Montemurro said after the match. What he thought under “solutions” were situations of goal scoring. They created two and achieved twice.

All this has changed after the interruption, of course, and these 45 minutes should be used as a measure that approaches the other part. Gunners finished the game enjoying 58 percent of their possession, ended the 87 last thirds and touched the ball 22 times in Lyon’s box. These numbers far outweighed what Lyon offered.

Sleeping: Belief still remains despite deficit

Arsenal Main coach Renee Sumgeri::

“I don’t think it was a shock, but the pace is bigger, it’s very high opposition. We had to place ourselves in the game and create a belief in the way we play. I think it showed it in the second period, we grew into a game with courage and courage. When we have momentum, we have to achieve more at that stage of the game.

“It was disappointing to achieve the results again because then we persecute the game again. It’s one goal down, only halfway, so we still have the opportunity next week.

“Playing against these three forwards on the field is something we have not yet faced this season. You have to experience it to find solutions. It took us some time to settle down, but we did that, we found solutions – beliefs and courage began to grow.

“We find ways to score a lot of goals this season. We have shown that we can be ruthless. We will definitely find details for next week.”

Montemurro: We suffered

Lyon Main coach Joe Montemurro::

“We have an advantage. The second half, Arsenal gave us a lot of difficulty and had two very good chances. I’m not sure many teams travel to this iconic stadium and I expect it will not suffer.

“At this level it is about managing moments of madness. Sometimes it’s just emotion. This Lyon team can contain emotion and that’s an important thing.

“I had four wonderful years here and gained a lot of friends. I had to maintain it professional. I stunned 40,000 people on the Emirates. It was a wonderful football game. It was so much growth and that gives me so much pleasure.”