By OkayGoal
UEFA Champions League Women · League Stage – 3 · 28 Oct 2026
Servette Chênois5 – 1OH Leuven
Paola Hernández 16′
Gloria Marinelli 38′
Gloria Marinelli 44′
Paola Hernández 58′
Joana Marchão 83′Jada Conijnenberg 82′
Half-time 3–0 · Venue: Stade de Genève · Referee: Grigone·Rasa
Servette Chênois beat OH Leuven 5-1 at the Stade de Genève on Wednesday 28 October in the third round of the UEFA Women’s Champions League league stage. Paola Hernández and Gloria Marinelli scored two each, and Joana Marchão added a goal to go with an assist.
Hernández and Marinelli share four goals
Hernández opened the scoring in the 16th minute from Marchão’s assist. Marinelli doubled the lead in the 38th minute after Bénédicte Simon set her up, then scored again in the 44th minute to send Servette in 3-0 ahead at half-time.
Hernández got her second in the 58th minute. Virág Nagy was booked for a foul three minutes later as Leuven’s evening got harder.
Jada Conijnenberg pulled one back for the visitors in the 82nd minute. The reply came quickly. Marchão, who had created the opener, restored the four-goal margin in the 83rd minute.
Paula Serrano Castaño was cautioned for Servette in the 76th minute. Kadhiya De Ceuster was booked for Leuven two minutes later, and Lily Hoekx was shown a yellow card in the fourth minute of stoppage time. Leuven finished with three bookings to Servette’s one.
Five shots on target, five goals for Servette
Servette’s finishing decided the night. They put five of their seven attempts on target and scored with every one, from expected goals of only 0.69. Leuven managed one shot on target from five, and that was Conijnenberg’s goal, with an expected goals figure of 0.35.
Cristian Toro’s side, set up in a 4-3-3, had 55% of the ball and won 6 corners to Leuven’s 1. Neither team was caught offside.
The result makes it three straight wins for Servette in all competitions, following a 4-1 victory over Luzern and a 3-0 win against St. Gallen. Before that run they had lost 5-1 to Køge and 8-0 to Lyon.
Rapperswil Jona next for Servette, Club Brugge for Leuven
Leuven arrived in Geneva on the back of a 4-0 win over Zulte-Waregem. This was their third defeat in their last six matches across all competitions, alongside a 3-1 loss to Anderlecht and a 5-0 defeat by Paris Saint Germain.
Servette return to domestic action in the AXA Women’s Super League at home to Rapperswil Jona on Sunday 1 November. Leuven travel to Club Brugge in the Super League on Saturday 7 November, having drawn 1-1 with them in their most recent meeting.
