Arsenal 3 Corinthians 2 (After extra time)\n<\/p>\n
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Arsenal’s Lotte Wubben-Moy (left) celebrates with Katie McCabe<\/p>\n
Katie McCabe and Arsenal were crowned the inaugural Women\u2019s Champions Cup winners after substitute Caitlin Foord scored to inspire the Gunners to a 3-2 extra-time victory over Brazilian side Corinthians.<\/p>\n
Foord\u2019s winner came as welcome relief for Ireland captain McCabe, after she gave away a last-minute penalty in normal time which Corinthians converted to force extra time. <\/p>\n
The new FIFA club competition\u2019s final was played out under drenched conditions at the Emirates Stadium, where the north Londonders also secured 2.3 million US dollars (\u00a31.67million) in prize money.<\/p>\n
Corinthians captain Gabi Zanotti cancelled out Olivia Smith\u2019s 15th-minute opener in the first half before Lotte Wubben-Moy nodded Arsenal back in front after the break.<\/p>\n
Arsenal were moments from victory but conceded a stoppage-time penalty \u2013 scored by Vic Albuquerque \u2013 before battling back under the downpour in the first period of extra time.<\/p>\n
Celebrations were subdued, however, after Arsenal goalkeeper Anneke Borbe went down in a collision late in the second period of extra time and was removed from the pitch on a stretcher, after a lengthy pause to receive treatment on the pitch.<\/p>\n
Corinthians keeper Leticia was able to keep out a sharp effort from Stina Blackstenius, but could do little to stop Smith\u2019s opener after the rebound fell in the path of the Canada international, who nestled it home.<\/p>\n
The visitors equalised from a corner nodded home in the 21st minute by Zanotti, whose header bounced off Kim Little, leading to a goalmouth scramble before referee Katia Garcia made clear the ball had crossed the line.<\/p>\n
Arsenal were back in front after Wubben-Moy rose to meet Emily Fox\u2019s cross, whipping it past Leticia in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n
Just as it appeared the trophy presentation would be imminent, McCabe conceded a penalty \u2013 confirmed by VAR \u2013 for her challenge from behind and through the legs of Gisela Robledo.<\/p>\n
Up stepped Albuquerque, who fired down the middle past a diving Borbe to force extra time.<\/p>\n
There were chances for both sides early on but it was Arsenal who finally made one count on a counter-attack initiated by Maanum, who drove through midfield before feeding Foord, who fooled Leticia and snuck the winner past her near post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal 3 Corinthians 2 (After extra time) Arsenal’s Lotte Wubben-Moy (left) celebrates with Katie McCabe Katie McCabe and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15133,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-276312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}