Ena Mahmutovic turned the match with one save and one mistake. After wiping out Aoba Fujino, she watched the referee point to the spot, then recovered to keep out Khadija Shaw’s penalty and deny Manchester City a goal that looked there to be taken.
That is why Bayern Vs Manchester City is being searched now: a live UEFA Women's Champions League clash was decided, at least for the moment, by a goalkeeper who first created the danger and then erased it. Shaw sent her effort just to the left of the middle, and Mahmutovic got enough on it to stop the shot from finding the net.
The chance came after Bayern had already been forced back. Before the penalty, Klara Buhl snatched a loose Laura Blindkilde Brown pass and carried the move up the pitch, then worked the ball inside to Pernille Harder, whose shot was blocked when she could not find a clean angle. On Disney+, Lucy Ward summed up the moment bluntly: “What an earth is Mahmutovic doing. Fujino was desperately trying to get on the end of it but she made her mind up for her.”
Manchester City had been passing better after the restart, and Ward said that improvement mattered against a team like Bayern. Aoba Fujino looked relatively lively for City in that spell, which made the missed penalty feel even bigger. Khadija Shaw and Sam Coffey were then replaced by Mary Fowler and Laura Blindkilde-Brown, leaving City to chase the next opening without the forward who had just failed from the spot.
What remains unresolved is the score and the final shape of the game after Mahmutovic’s save. For Bayern, the stop preserved a narrow escape at the exact moment City had a gift chance; for City, it left the match hanging on whether another opening would arrive before the final whistle.
