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Nigeria and Super Falcons prima Jennifer Echegini endured a achy instrumentality to Turin with PSG successful the UWCL.
Juventus Women delivered a stunning show successful the UEFA Women's Champions League (UWCL) playoff Round 2, defeating Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 successful a lucifer that saw Nigerian prima Jennifer Echegini look her erstwhile team.
The crippled played connected Wednesday astatine the Pozzo-La Marmora stadium successful Biella, Italy, sets up an intriguing 2nd limb successful Paris adjacent week.
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Match Highlights
Juventus took power aboriginal with Amalie Vangsgaard opening the scoring disconnected an assistance from Cantore.
PSG's Thiniba Samoura rapidly equalised, but Sofia Cantore restored Juventus' pb with a spectacular solo effort conscionable earlier halftime.
Bennison sealed the triumph successful the 2nd half, capitalising connected different Cantore assistance to marque it 3-1.
The Bianconeri's assured display, combining coagulated defence and objective attacking, gives them a important vantage heading into the instrumentality limb successful Paris connected September 26.
Echegini's Bittersweet Return
For Super Falcons guardant Jennifer Onyi Echegini, the lucifer marked a harsh world cheque successful her instrumentality to Turin.
The 23-year-old Nigerian midfielder, who recently completed a high-profile transportation to PSG, signing a declaration until June 2027, recovered herself connected the losing broadside against her erstwhile club.
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Echegini had enjoyed a successful, albeit brief, stint astatine Juventus earlier this year, scoring 10 goals and providing an assistance successful conscionable 16 appearances implicit six months.
Her performances earned her a spot successful the Championship Team of the Year and the rubric of Juventus' champion young subordinate of the play earlier her daze departure to France.
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The effect puts Juventus successful a beardown presumption to advance, portion PSG faces an uphill conflict successful the instrumentality leg.
For Echegini, the lucifer serves arsenic a reminder of the challenges that travel with high-profile transfers and the competitory quality of top-level women's football.
It is near to beryllium seen however PSG and Echegini volition respond to this setback, and whether Juventus tin support their awesome signifier to unafraid their spot successful the adjacent circular of the UWCL.
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