Manchester United fall short of Women’s Champions League comeback against Bayern Munich

Good evening and welcome to our live coverage of Bayern Munich v Manchester United in the Women’s Champions League.

United head to the Allianz Arena tonight knowing they must overturn a 3-2 scoreline if they are to progress to the semi-finals of the competition for the first time in their history. 

Marc Skinner’s side were second best in the opening leg last week at Old Trafford against the German giants, who have won all five of their previous European home meetings with English sides. Pernille Harder’s double was cancelled out by Maya Le Tissier and Hanna Lundkvist, before substitute Momoko Tanikawa restored Bayern’s advantage with an 84th-minute winner.

Victory tonight would be huge for United, who will be desperate to end a patchy run of results which has seen them record one win in their last six matches in all competitions. 

They suffered consecutive defeats to Chelsea in the FA Cup fifth round and League Cup final last month and were also comprehensively beaten 3-0 at Old Trafford last weekend in a one-sided Manchester derby. That result saw them drop to fourth in the Women’s Super League table and mathematically end their title hopes. 

Tonight at the Allianz Arena they will face another tough task against an in-form Bayern outfit who have not dropped points in Europe this season.

Jose Barcala’s side head into the second leg on the back of a 2-0 victory over Bavarian rivals Nurnberg, which saw them equal the club record of 18 consecutive home wins in the Frauen-Bundesliga. The seven-time German champions, though, have come unstuck at this stage of the competition in recent seasons, having failed to progress from each of their last four European quarter-finals.