💫 UWCL: Bright start for Chelsea; Real Madrid impress in Albania 🎥 | OneFootball

There were four Women’s Champions League fixtures from matchday one to enjoy across Thursday night.

This is what went down.

Bright start for Chelsea

Scorers: Bright 27′

Chelsea began their UWCL campaign with an impressive win in Paris against last season’s semi-finalists.

The visitors started brighter despite the vociferous home support and silenced them on 27 minutes when PSG failed to clear a corner and at the second attempt, a deep cross was swung to the back post where Millie Bright met it with a hooked volley back across goal and into the net.

That was the only goal of a first half largely without penalty box action, albeit one which Chelsea had the better of.

Sam Kerr had an attempt deflected inches wide of the target after the restart and although the hosts improved in the closing stages, they failed to create anything substantial to trouble Ann-Katrin Berger in starting with defeat.

Real start in impressive fashion

Scorers: González 54′, Carmona pen 76′

Real Madrid overcame the first ever Albanian side to make it to the group stage on Thursday night with a dominant performance away from home that should have yielded more goals.

The Spanish side suffered a lack of luck in a scoreless opening half as they were twice denied by the woodwork, while Kaylin Williams-Mosier was also alert in the home goal to keep them at bay.

Both the goalkeeper and the crossbar combined to continue that frustration shortly after the break when she tipped a Claudia Zornoza effort from range onto the frame of the goal.

But that sterling defensive work was undone moments later when Esther González deservedly broke the deadlock with a calm finish after being played through by Zornoza and then showing quick feet to lose her marker in the area.

Zornoza should have put the contest to bed inside the final 20 minutes but blazed over from eight yards after fantastic build-up play on the left from Olga Carmona.

It was Carmona’s dribbling that did ultimately finish the job as she was brought down in the box and picked herself up to send the goalkeeper the wrong was from the penalty spot.

The taste of the big time doesn’t get any easier for Vllaznia, who face Chelsea on the road next.

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