Russo hat-trick fires Arsenal past Benfica in Women's Champions League
Alessia Russo scored all three goals in Arsenal's 3-0 Women's Champions League win over Benfica, becoming England's all-time leading scorer in the competition.
Alessia Russo scored a hat-trick as Arsenal beat Benfica 3-0 in the Women's Champions League, a result that also made her England's all-time leading goalscorer in the competition.
All three of Arsenal's goals in the match came from Russo, accounting for the entire margin of victory over the Portuguese side. The match report was carried under the billing WUCL - Arsenal 3-0 Benfica.
The individual milestone is the headline development from the game: the hat-trick lifted Russo above the previous English benchmarks in the Women's Champions League scoring charts. The source did not specify the number of goals in her competition tally or the names of the players she surpassed.
Arsenal's clean sheet accompanied the three-goal return, though the report supplied no further detail on the flow of play, the timing of the goals, the line-ups or the wider group standings.
Coverage of the match report was restricted to users in the UK, so the account available here is limited to the result and Russo's scoring feat rather than a full narrative of the contest.
The win adds another strong European result to Arsenal's campaign and puts the focus on Russo, whose treble against Benfica now stands as the defining English scoring landmark in the competition.
