PARIS: A pair of late own goals on Tuesday helped Paris Saint-Germain and Ajax lock up the last two places in the women\u2019s Champions League quarter-finals.
\nEarlier Hacken had won 1-0 at Real Madrid to join Barcelona, Benfica, Brann, Chelsea and Lyon who had ensured last eight-places before the final round of group games.
\nPSG needed to avoid defeat at Bayern Munich to advance and came from behind twice to secure a 2-2 draw helped when Georgia Stanway deflected a shot into her own net in the 88th minute.
\nAt almost exactly the same time in Amsterdam, Roma\u2019s Zara Kramzar headed into her own goal to give Ajax a 2-1 victory and first place in Group C.
\nBayern defender Stanway deflected in a shot by Sandy Baltimore
\nGiulia Gwinn had headed Bayern into a first half lead.
\nTabitha Chawinga levelled in the 73rd minute but Sydney Lohmann put Bayern ahead again two minutes later.
\nWith two minutes left, England midfielder Stanway deflected Sandy Baltimore\u2019s shot into her own net.
\nIn four minutes Bayern had gone from group winners to elimination. For the first time in the history of the Women\u2019s Champions League, there will be no German club in the last eight.
\n\u201cThe players deserved way more, they would\u2019ve deserved to win the game and proceed to the next round,\u201d Bayern coach Alexander Straus told the club website.
\n\u201cTwo strong teams played each other \u2013 that could\u2019ve been a semi-final. At the end, the result is frustrating.\u201d
\nMeanwhile, PSG who owned the group with losses to Ajax and Bayern, staged one last fightback to go through.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a big accomplishment for us. We lost the first two games and didn\u2019t start well, so to end up on top of the group is a big accomplishment,\u201d said PSG midfielder Jackie Groenen told UEFA.com.
\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t really show up in the first half, but we managed to fight ourselves into the second half.\u201d
\nAjax seized their chance to top the group when Kramzar put an Ajax corner into her own net. \u201cThe main goal was to focus on ourselves,\u201d said 16-year-old Ajax midfielder Lily Yohannes.
\n\u201cBut I heard someone say Bayern were ahead right before the corner. So that was incredible.\u201d
\nIn Madrid, forward Rosa Kafaji, 20, headed into the top of the net after an hour to give Hacken victory.
\nThe Swedish club finished second behind Group D winners Chelsea who ended Paris FC\u2019s hopes with a 4-0 rout in the French capital on Tuesday.
\nHacken would only have failed to take second place if they had lost and Paris had won.
\n\u201cWe were smart today; we played pretty smart,\u201d Mak Lind, the Hacken coach, told UEFA.com.
\n\u201cWe did it by ourselves; we didn\u2019t need help to qualify and I\u2019m so proud of that.
\n\u201cNot many believed that we could qualify before this group stage and we are showing people that we can play really good football.\u201d
\nThe group stage ends on Wednesday with four matches but the two qualifiers from both groups are decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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