Barcelona Femeni of Spain attacker, Asisat Oshoala will spend all of Thursday night and early Wednesday waiting anxiously to know her team’s next opponent in the UEFA Women’s Champions League, megasportsarena.com reports.
This is sequel to her side’s qualification for the quarter-finals stage, for which the draw and that for the semi-finals will hold Friday afternoon in Nyon, Switzerland, where Oshoala’s side could come up against equally qualified Chelsea of England, VfL Wolfsburg of Germany and the past two season’s winners, Olympique Lyon of France.
Oshoala, who was in the Barca side beaten 4-1 by Lyon in the 2018/19 final, is buzzing heading to Friday’s draw, as she hot one of the goals when her team showed their superiority over Fortuna Hjørring of Denmark with 5-0 thrashing on Wednesday evening.
The former FC Robo Queens of Lagos, Rivers Angels of Port Harcourt, Liverpool and Arsenal Ladies of England as well as former Dalian Quanjian of China ace entered the game at Nord Energi Arena as a substitute eight minutes into the second half.
A double from Aitana Bonmatí, a penalty by Mariona Caldentey and Marta Torrejón’s effort combined with that from ‘Super Zee’ earned Barcelona a spot in the quarter-finals for the sixth consecutive season.
Oshoala made it 4-0 in the last 12 minutes from time, when she out-sprinted her marker and calmly slotted past the onrushing goalkeeper after a fantastic pass from Melanie Serrano, as The Catalans wrapped up a comprehensive 9-0 aggregate win, having taken the first leg 4-0 a week ago.
