Arsenal suffer Champions League agony! Winners & losers as Wolfsburg snatch last-gasp victory in semi-final thriller

Pauline Bremer will leave Wolfsburg at the end of this season and she will leave so having made an incredibly big contribution after a difficult few years with the club.

The forward has been plagued with injuries since she joined Manchester City in 2017 and has struggled to make an impact after joining the German side from there in 2020, making just 21 league appearances in that time. Indeed, she was only playing her seventh game for the club when she ruptured her ACL back in October 2020.

That it was her who popped up at the back stick to win this tie was an incredibly heart-warming story given all she has been through.

Lina Hurtig had a huge, huge chance to put Arsenal ahead in extra time and she will no doubt be replaying it in her head over and over again after the result panned out the way it did.

Frida Maanum had picked Dominique Janssen's pocket on the right wing and perfectly teed up the Swede with a low cross into the box, but she couldn't beat Merle Frohms with her first-time shot.

It was a gilt-edged chance and potentially a match-winning one.

It was Bremer's goal that won this game but Popp's contributions were incredibly decisive.

The versatile veteran was a thorn in Arsenal's side all game, especially from set pieces. For Wolfsburg's first goal, Popp headed the ball down nicely for Roord to strike home, having got in front of her marker to do so.

For the second goal, she escaped the attention of both Rafaelle and Maanum to flick on a lovely near-post header into the back of the net.

Now, she has a chance to win a fourth Champions League title - 14 years after her first and nine years after her last.

One of the most disappointing things for Arsenal from this game will be that the two goals they conceded in the first 90 minutes were both so avoidable.

Both came from set pieces and both were as a result of poor marking, one of the very basic things that you just cannot afford to get wrong on such a big occasion.

When there is a player like Popp on the other side, who is so good in those situations, it becomes even more important that you are switched on. Arsenal just weren't and they were made to pay.

Stina Blackstenius is a big-game player. The Swede has had to bare the brunt of Arsenal's goalscoring responsibility due to the huge number of injuries in the forward line, but she has done so brilliantly.

In February, she scored the goal that sent Arsenal into the Continental Cup final. A month later, she scored a decisive equaliser in that very game as the Gunners ended their four-year trophy drought. In the quarter-finals of the UWCL, it was Blackstenius' goal that was the difference as they knocked out Bayern Munich and in this tie she scored in both legs, too.

She has had her critics but there should be no doubt about it - she is a quality, quality player who comes up in the big moments.

Among all the chaos and the heartbreak Arsenal suffered on Monday was an awful looking injury for Laura Wienroither.

The full-back went down clutching her knee while chasing a loose ball and was in serious, serious pain as she was stretchered off the pitch.

Wienroither had only been on the pitch for 18 minutes when she had to come off again and she adds another name to the Gunners' ever-growing injury list.

That the Emirates crowd gave her a huge standing ovation and cheer as she was escorted around the side of the pitch was a lovely touch for a player who was visibly devastated and hurt.