“Barcelona Women’s Soccer Reaches Champions League Final with 1-1 Draw Against Chelsea”

BARCELONA, April 27 (Reuters) – A goal from winger Caroline Graham Hansen gave the pass on Thursday to Barcelona Soccer Club to the final of the women’s Champions League, by drawing 1-1 at home with Chelsea in the second part of the semifinal leg of the European competition, achieving the third consecutive classification of the blaugrana for the championship final with a 2-1 overall.

Barça, who had beaten Chelsea 1-0 in the first leg after an early goal by Graham Hansen, will face in the final on June 3 Arsenal or VfL Wolfsburg, who drew 2-2 in the first leg in Germany and will play the second leg in London on Monday.

Despite a few first-half chances, it took Barca 63 minutes to increase their first-leg lead, while Chelsea were quick to respond through Guro Reiten, alerting the 2020-21 champions that they would not give up. without fighting.

However, Barça managed to hold on and reach the final.

Barcelona could have opened the scoring early in the second leg with a Graham Hansen goal from close range, but it was disallowed by a handball in the 8th minute.

Forwards Asisat Oshoala and Mariona Caldentey had two more chances for the locals, with the clash going goalless at half-time.

After the restart, Barça kept looking for the goal and ended up opening the scoring through Graham Hansen, who shot between the legs of the Chelsea goalkeeper from a tight angle.

Chelsea got into the game in the second half and equalized four minutes later when winger Reiten blasted a rebound into the net after a counter-attack.

However, despite Emma Hayes’s Chelsea going for the winning goal, which would have taken the tie to extra time, they were unable to extend the scoring.

(Reporting by Anita Kobylinska in Gdansk; Editing by Pritha Sarkar and Ken Ferris; Spanish editing by Darío Fernández)