The Bayern Munich footballers missed another big step towards the quarter-finals in the Champions League. At the Norwegian champions Valerenga Oslo, coach Alexander Straus’ team couldn’t get past a 1-1 (0-0) draw. After three previous wins, the German champions remain at the top of Group C with ten points.
Joker Jovana Damjanovic (75th) gave the Munich team the lead, who again played for their seriously ill goalkeeper Maria Luisa Grohs. Elise Thorsnes (87th) scored the equalizer for the underdog, who scored for the first time in this premier class season. Grohs was still in goal in the 3-0 win in the first leg a week ago, but after her tumor diagnosis she was replaced by Ena Mahmutovic in the Norwegian capital on Thursday evening, as she had done at the weekend against Carl Zeiss Jena (5-0). The DFB returnee had to distinguish herself several times on her premier class debut and kept Bayern in the game with a strong reflex in the 55th minute when the ball hit the left and then the right post from her fingertips; However, she had no chance of equalizing. On Sunday (4 p.m./Sky), the Bayern women play the DFB Cup round of 16 at SC Freiburg, after which they go into the international break.