💫 UWCL Ones to Watch: Key Arsenal game, Madrid pressure, new contenders? | OneFootball

The Women’s Champions League returns this week and there are, as ever, some huge stories to keep an eye on.

Must-win or must-not-lose for Arsenal?

Arsenal head into their game against Juventus top of their group on seven points, but the Italian side are just two behind and Lyon and just one more adrift.

With teams against both sides to come at the Emirates Stadium (plus a trip to FC Zürich) everything is in the Gunners’ own hands. But they can’t let it slip away.

Arsenal will likely have to take at least two points from their home matches against their two rivals for qualification to make absolutely sure they reach the knockout rounds but a win on Wednesday would already be an enormous step, leaving Juve five points adrift with two to play.

Can Roma do it away?

Roma are top of Serie A with 10 wins from 11 games and managed to draw at home against giants of the women’s game Wolfsburg two weeks ago.

If that isn’t enough to see them as dark horses, they have anther chance to prove their credentials in Germany on Thursday.

A win would send them top of the group and all but seal qualification, depending on the St Pölten result, with two games to go.

Pressure on Real Madrid with PSG lurking

Real Madrid host Chelsea on Thursday and they really might need to take something from the game.

The Blues are comfortable in the group having beaten Real Madrid at home and PSG away, likely leaving those two to fight it out for second.

Both teams are on four points right now and will expect to win their games against Vllaznia (three defeats, zero scored, 15 conceded so far) so it will all come down to the remaining match against Chelsea and the head-to-head clash in Paris.

With PSG having home advantage for that one, any kind of result against Chelsea this week would be enormous for the Spanish side.