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Chelsea seal top spot in Group B Substitute Macario scored two penalties in five minutes after break Real Madrid took lead when Hampton palmed Weir shot into own net Spanish side also through to quarter-finals in second place Get Involved: #bbcfootball, via Whats App on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) Ciara Fleming Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea Olga Carmona executes a wonderful little nutmeg on Aggie Beever-Jones on the wing. The World Cup winner has been excellent so far this evening. Twente 1-0 Celtic Elsewhere in Group B, Celtic trail Twente 1-0. Dutch international Kayleigh van Dooren has put her side ahead. You can follow that game here. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea Hosts defender Sheila Garcia is momentarily went down after being caught on the ankle. She gets a bit of treatment and looks like she will battle on for now. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea Real Madrid are buzzing about the pitch with confidence after getting the early opener. As it stands they will be winning the group ahead of Chelsea. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea Niamh Charles attempts a charge down the left wing but former Man City midfielder Filippa Angeldahl gets across to cut it out. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea We're just over a quarter of an hour in and Chelsea have yet to have any real spell of control in this one. Mayra Ramirez is being triple teamed by the Madrid defence so it is proving hard to get her into any dangerous attacking positions. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea Real Madrid look menacing every time they come forward. Linda Caicedo tries to trick her way past Lucy Bronze but Nathalie Bjorn comes across to help her teammate and block the shot at goal. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea Chelsea change tact from their latest corner with Aggie Bever-Jones playing it short to Guro Reiten. The Norwegian takes the opportunity to shoot from about 30 yards out and forces Misa Rodriguez into a smart save to deny the equaliser. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea Mayra Ramirez is hauled down by former Levante teammate Maria Mendez on the half way line and is awarded a free kick. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea From the kick off Chelsea get a corner down the other end but Misa Rodriguez punches the delivery into the air before the Real Madrid defence get it clear. Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea Well, well, well. For a second time in four days Chelsea find themselves behind. Not the sort of start they would have been hoping for. Caroline Weir (7 mins) The hosts take the lead! Olga Carmona gets the better of Lucy Bronze before sliding a reverse pass into the feet of Linda Caicedo. Caicedo feeds the ball into the feet of Caroline Weir whose shot is parried into the air by Hannah Hampton before looping into the back of the net via the back post. Real Madrid 0-0 Chelsea Millie Bright sends a searching diagonal ball for Aggie Beever-Jones to chase down the right wing but it has too much on it and rolls behind. Real Madrid 0-0 Chelsea Signe Bruun is deemed to have fouled Millie Bright in their first tussle of the evening. That is certainly a battle to keep an eye on. Real Madrid 0-0 Chelsea Chelsea give the ball away at the back and are almost punished. Caroline Weir latches onto a loose ball after Millie Bright's slip but her long range shot is hit straight at Hannah Hampton. Real Madrid v Chelsea (17: 45 GMT) Chelsea's Mayra Ramirez gets us under way. Twente v Celtic (17: 45 GMT) Elsewhere in Group B, Celtic travel to Twente this evening in search of their first Champions League point(s). You can follow that one here. Real Madrid v Chelsea (17: 45 GMT) The teams are making their way out onto the pitch at Estadio Alfredo di Stefano. Just the Champions League anthem to go before we get started. The quarter-finalists were already locked in prior to this final round of group stage games. WSL clubs Chelsea, Arsenal and Man City are among the final eight, joining holders Barcelona, Real Madrid, Olympique Lyon, Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg. The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals will take place on 7 February in Nyon. Before that can happen though, we need to find out the final group placings for each team. .. Real Madrid A player that the Chelsea defence will want to keep a close eye on this evening is Real Madrid forward Signe Bruun. The Denmark international has scored seven goals in her last five matches for club and country. She sits second in the Champions League top scorers list this season with five goals and three assists from five games. Catarina Macario won the Women's Champions League in 2022, scoring in the final as Lyon beat Barcelona 3-1 Substitute Catarina Macario scored two penalties as Chelsea came from behind to beat Real Madrid and move into the Women's Champions League quarter-finals as Group B winners. Real had looked on course to snatch top spot after Scotland forward Caroline Weir gave them an early lead with her shot taking a deflection off Lucy Bronze before Hannah Hampton could not keep the ball out, despite getting a hand to the strike. Sonia Bompastor, in danger of suffering a first loss since she took charge of the Blues in the summer, brought on United States international Macario for the ineffective Mayra Ramirez in a game-changing substitution at half-time. The impact was instant. After already having an effort ruled out for offside and another shot go just wide, Macario scored her first penalty in the 51st minute after she had been brought down by Olga Carmona. The defender, who scored when Spain beat England 1-0 in the final of the 2023 Women's World Cup, conceded another penalty shortly afterwards as she handled following Wieke Kaptein's flick. Macario again fired her penalty high into the right side of the goal as Chelsea went on to win Group B with six wins out of six. "I went out knowing what I had to do. I wanted to have a positive impact and give my all, to give my team more options and bring energy, " said Macario. "In the first half Real Madrid had a great performance. We needed to have more possession and I was prepared to change that. Looking ahead to the draw, it doesn't matter who comes. We are confident in our abilities. " Chelsea will face one of the group runners-up in March's two-legged quarter-finals, with the draw held in Nyon, Switzerland on 7 February. German side Wolfsburg will finish second in Group A, while the winners and runners-up of Group C and Group D will be known on Wednesday. Bayern Munich currently lead Group C over Arsenal, before they meet at Meadow Park, while Manchester City will finish above Barcelona in Group D if they earn a point or only lose by a one-goal margin in their match in Spain. Twente beat Celtic 3-0 in final Women's Champions League group game Bonmati named Fifa Best women's player of the year Women's Football Weekly: Wales & England draw each other in Euro 2025 Catarina Macario scored twice in the opening 12 minutes of the second half Bompastor has now won 15 and drawn one of her 16 games as Blues boss since she replaced Emma Hayes in the summer. "We were not very happy with our performance in the first half, " said Bompastor. "We all sat down together at half-time and told ourselves we had nothing to lose. "We have a strong mentality, and that's important to win games. Macario is a world-class player; she changed the game. She showed a lot of confidence by scoring those two penalties. " This was Chelsea's last match of 2024 and Bompastor will be pleased her side get some time off. Winger Johanna Rytting Kaneryd picked up a calf injury in the 1-1 draw at Leicester at the weekend and missed the game in Spain, as did Maelys Mpome with a quad injury keeping her out again. England forward Lauren James will be out until the new year because of a calf injury, while Sophie Ingle, Mia Fishel, Sam Kerr, Kadeisha Buchanan and Aniek Nouwen are long-term absentees as they recover from respective anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. Chelsea suffered a further setback just before half-time as midfielder Guro Reiten had to be replaced after suffering what appeared to be an injury to her right ankle. Reiten had created the visitors' best chance of the first half but saw her 30-yard strike superbly tipped over by home goalkeeper Misa Rodriguez. But Real had been good value for their advantage, although Hampton would have been disappointed to have not saved Weir's deflected effort. However, the game switched with Macario's introduction as Chelsea hope to become European champions for the first time after they lost 4-0 in the 2021 Champions League final against Barcelona under Hayes. Macario's superb second-half performance ensured Chelsea would reach the last eight in 2024-25 with a 100% record, and the reigning Women's Super League (WSL) champions will be a side others want to avoid during the next phase in spring. After the opportunity to rate players has closed, the score displayed represents the average from all the submissions by BBC Sport users. Get the latest WSL news on our dedicated page Comments can not be loaded To load Comments you need to enable Java Script in your browser Last Updated 17th December 2024 at 21: 56 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. 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