Melbourne City will compete with Wuhan Women s Football Team for the first AFC Champions League

Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, May 21 (Reporters Zhao Jiantong, Le Wenwan) The semi-finals of the 2024-2025 Asian Football Federation Women's Football Club Champions League were held at the Wuhan Sports Center on the 21st. The Australian Melbourne City Women's Football Team scored a goal in the final countdown stage of the game, defeating the South Korean Hyundai Iron-Making Red Angels 1:0, and will compete with the Wuhan team for the championship on the 24th.

Melbourne City Women's Football Team achieved a complete victory in the group stage and the quarter-finals, and conceded only one goal. The Red Angels once defeated the Wuhan team that advanced to the finals 2-0 in the group stage.

In the 94th minute, Melbourne City Women's Football Team Shelby McMahon shot hard outside the penalty area, and the ball went straight into the upper right corner of the goal, and the referee blew the final whistle. This precious "decisive" goal allowed the Melbourne City Women's Football Team to advance to the final of the first Women's Football Team AFC Champions League without any danger.

Melbourne City Women's Football Head Coach Mattricciani said they began studying the other three teams entering the semi-finals in a few weeks, and also had a detailed and comprehensive analysis of their final opponents Wuhan Women's Football Team. "I believe we will have a very exciting final with the Wuhan Women's Football Team," he said.

At the post-match press conference of another semi-final held earlier, Wuhan Women's Football Head Coach Chang Weiwei said that he would study the final opponents in a targeted manner, "In the end, no matter who we are against, we will stick to ourselves, work hard, and strive for no regrets." (End)