The Blues did everything but score at the Hisingen Arena, hitting the woodwork twice, having two goals ruled out and firing in a total of 32 shots, as Hacken goalkeeper Jennifer Falk was awarded the Player of the Match trophy for making five crucial saves.

Defensively, we kept our fourth clean sheet in four league phase matches in the competition, but this was an evening when we were unfortunate not to come away with all three points. Yet there were some positives for the head coach to take, on a night when the defence was solid once again in the Women's Champions League.

'Tonight’s performance was good in terms of the defensive aspects,' Bompastor reflected. 'We knew what they wanted to do against us: they wanted to use the transition to hurt us behind the backline, and the defenders dealt really well with those situations.

'We were dominant with the ball for most of the game. We created a lot of opportunities, but tonight we couldn’t score the one goal to win the game. It’s a frustrating result. We came here with the ambition to win.

'We also hit the crossbar, and the goalkeeper made some great saves. Sometimes it happens in football, and you need to take the learnings and move on. We have enough quality in the squad to achieve that, but tonight it didn’t go our way.

'We have a quick turnaround with a big game at the weekend, so we need to refocus and move on from this one.'

Wins over Austria Vienna and Roma plus draws with Lyon and Hacken have seen us take eight points from a possible 12 in the league phase so far. A top four finish will see us qualify automatically for the knockout stages of the competition, and Bompastor feels that we can't afford to drop any more points.

'I’m quite happy with the way we started the campaign. Tonight was a game where we couldn’t score a goal, but our ambition is still to finish in the top four. We have two games to go in this competition, so we’ll have to win them both and see what happens in the table.'