Two games, two wild finishes

Start at the Etihad, where Manchester City Women were under siege late on against Real Madrid Women. According to Sky Sports' live coverage, Madrid were denied a winner in the closing stages. City held firm and came through it, and in a competition as unforgiving as the Women's Champions League, surviving that kind of pressure counts for plenty.

A night City will take

The framing from Sky Sports tells its own story: this wasn't a comfortable home win being managed out, it was a side hanging on while one of European women's football's heavyweights threw everything at them. Real Madrid Women have the quality to punish exactly that kind of lapse, so the fact City got to full time with the result intact matters.

Wales do a number on Haaland's Norway

Over in the Nations League, Wales produced what Sky Sports billed as a special win over Norway, a side built around Erling Haaland and expected, on paper, to roll through this kind of fixture. Beating a Haaland-led Norway side is the sort of result that gets replayed on timelines regardless of the manner of it, and Wales will know exactly how rare a scalp like that is in this group.

Norway have become one of the most feared attacking sides in European qualifying with Haaland leading the line, so any result Wales can describe as special against them is worth banking.

Scores and reaction to follow

Flagside will have the detail, the goals and the reaction from both games once the final whistle stories settle: the Madrid chance that was denied at the Etihad, and exactly how Wales rattled Norway's spine in Cardiff.