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Your @UWCL Player of the Match, picking up a hat-trick to become the top English goalscorer in UWCL history.... Our number 23 💫

FT: Arsenal 3 – 0 Benfica 💫

Foord puts the ball in the net but VAR has it ruled off.... No goal ❌

2,438 in attendance tonight 👏🏼

Final substitution of the night: ↩️ Smith ↪️ Blackstenius

Substitution for Arsenal: ↩️ Reuteler ↪️ Baum Congratulations on your full début, Géry! 👏🏼👏🏼

PENALTY GIVEN, RUSSO STEPS UP AND BURIES IT IN THE TOP CORNER! THREE NIL ARSENAL

PENALTY TO ARSENAL! There will of course be a VAR check in process to check the foul...

First subs of the evening... ↪️ Williamson, Little, Fox ↩️ De Almeida, Cooney-Cross, Hinds

Reuteler takes on the Benfica defense and goes around the keeper but one of their defenders gets her foot to it just in time 😩😩

And with her second goal of the night, our Captain becomes the highest scoring English player in the UWCL 💫

RUSSO WITH THE SECOND! Steph's ball in from the corner meets Alessia's head and she nods home to pick up her second of the night 🤩 2 – 0

Taylor gets a shot off but it goes straight at the keeper who collects

A very nicely worked ball from Kyra finds its way to Liv on the outside of the box but Alessia's resulting header goes over and out 😔

Back underway at Meadow Park. Let's keep the momentum going! COYG 👊🏼❤️

Ahead at the break 👊🏼

GOAAALLLLL ALESSIA RUSSOOOOOO ONE NIL TO THE ARSENAL

Liv has a shot that deflects off the post and out for a corner 😩

We're underway here at Meadow Park. COYG!