Bilbao. With targets from its stars Aitana Bonmatí and Alexia Putellas, Barcelona defeated Lyon (2-0) and retained its title within the Girls’s Champions League, this Saturday in Bilbao, establishing itself as the nice reference with three titles in 4 years.
The fifth time was the attraction. FC Barcelona, which had not crushed Lyon in its 4 earlier matches, broke the spell, profitable a title, the third after 2021 and 2023, which consummates a change within the European hegemony of girls’s soccer on the membership degree.
Barça has dropped at its knees the till lately undisputed dominator of the competitors with eight titles, with whom it had misplaced its 4 earlier matches, all of them within the prime European competitors, displaying in San Mamés an excellent combinative recreation that dismantled some Lyonnais incapable of making critical hazard in opposition to a protected Cata Coll below the sticks.
‘The Cathedral’ of Spanish soccer and its 50,827 followers current, which caused a brand new attendance file in a ladies’s Champions League last, largely culés – many Lyon followers had been ready within the metropolis of Lille for the Cup last. Males’s France with PSG – attended within the midst of an environment of Barça effervescence a brand new coronation of the gamers led by Jonatan Giráldez, who says goodbye to the Barça bench with a poker of titles this season (League, Queen’s Cup, Tremendous Cup of Spain and Champions).
– Aitana and Alexia, gold –
Barcelona, at the very least till they took the lead, dominated the sport, possession, and saved the ball nearer to Chilean Christiane Endler’s space.
The primary percussions on the appropriate aspect of the Norwegian Caroline Graham, whose facilities couldn’t be taken benefit of by Sandra Paralluelo first (Endler stopped) and by Mariona Caldentey later (she went vast) urged that it will not be a simple afternoon for a Lyon that arrived as the one undefeated group within the competitors, the best scorer and that had scored of their ten video games performed on this Champions League.
Barça moved the ball judiciously, whereas the French seemed for a extra direct and vertical recreation that was reduce off on the three-quarter line. Some lukewarm header from central defender Wendie Renard, or distant photographs with out an excessive amount of hazard didn’t honor Lyon’s journey on this Champions League.
Nevertheless, regardless of Lyon’s nice squad, the Blaugranas had Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatí, whose shot from inside the realm touched Vanessa Gilles simply sufficient to beat Endler and open the scoring within the 63rd minute.
“It is the primary time we beat Lyon, I am happy with the group,” declared the 26-year-old midfielder, who confessed that she would not change her feeling “for something on the planet.”
Lyon turned to the assault, with the entry into play of one other former Ballon d’Or winner, Ada Hegerberg, however Giráldez, who will go to the American championship subsequent season, checked out his bench and located a world champion and likewise a former Ballon d’Or winner. of Gold like Alexia Putellas, who shortly after leaping onto the sphere of play sentenced with a strong shot together with her left foot (90+5) from inside the realm that licensed the Barça title and led the Barça parish to ecstasy, which didn’t go away to imagine in ‘The Cathedral’.
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– 2024-06-03 15:56:17
