PSG win through to Women's Champions League semis

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Barcelona eased to a 3-1 win over Brann on Thursday to set up a repeat of last season's Women's Champions League semi-final against Chelsea, progressing 5-2 on aggregate, while Paris Saint-Germain also clinched a place in the last four of Europe's elite club competition.

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In Paris, the home side built on a 2-1 quarter-final first-leg win away to Hacken by beating the Swedish side 3-0 at the Parc des Princes to progress 5-1 on aggregate and set up a semi-final against domestic rivals Lyon.
Impressive Malawi striker Tabitha Chawinga, the top scorer in the French league this season, gave PSG the lead on the night just before the half-hour mark, firing a shot in off the far post on her left foot after collecting a pass from Marie-Antoinette Katoto.
They doubled their lead on 70 minutes as a long-range strike by Korbin Albert sailed into the top corner. Albert, a 20-year-old midfielder, is a rising star in the US but is at the centre of a brewing storm over controversial social media posts which have drawn a strong response from American great Megan Rapinoe.
PSG's third goal arrived soon after that as Katoto headed in from a Sakina Karchaoui cross for her fifth goal in this season's Champions League. The result means there is guaranteed to be a French side in the final in Bilbao in May, with PSG and Lyon meeting in the semi-finals next month.
They also clashed in the last four two years ago, when Lyon went on to win the trophy for a record-extending eighth time. Lyon, who beat Benfica in the quarter-finals, are currently seven points ahead of PSG at the top of the French league.

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