Barcelona overcomes Chelsea and reaches the final of the women’s Champions League

London. With goals from Aitana Bonmatí and the Swedish Fridolina Rolfö, Barcelona came back from the semi-final tie against Chelsea (2-0, 2-1 on aggregate) and reached their fourth consecutive final of the Women’s Champions League, which they will play against Lyon or PSG, on May 25 in Bilbao.

Despite the defeat suffered in Barcelona (1-0), the current champion of the competition was able to turn the situation around with goals from the current Ballon d’Or winner (in the 25th minute of the first half) and from the Swedish forward, from a penalty (75), when the Londoners were already playing at an inferiority due to the expulsion of defender Kadeisha Buchanan at the hour mark.

Unopposed in the national championship (where it is about to win its fifth consecutive league and ninth since 2012), the Barça continues to make merits to establish a dynasty at a continental level.

He Barça will play its fifth European final, the fourth in a row, at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao. He won the title in 2021 and 2023 and lost in 2019 and 2022.

At Stamford Bridge, aware of the negative result of the first leg, the Barça They started dominating and it barely took 25 minutes to equalize the tie, when Aitana Bonmatí finished off a pass from Patri Guijarro into the net.

Chelsea reacted and could have scored before the break, but a shot from Melanie Leupolz hit the crossbar (32) and Cata Coll saved a half-volley from Catarina Macario a few minutes later (35).

The equality in the game and in the tie was broken with the expulsion of Buchanan after seeing the second yellow card for a challenge on Guijarro.

In superiority, the Barça took over the game and surrounded the goal defended by Hannah Hampton until achieving the comeback, with a penalty called for a fall by Bonmatí, which Rolfö converted into the final 2-0.

For Chelsea, the Barça It is their bête noire, which had already eliminated the English in the previous edition and whom they beat 4-0 in the 2021 final, the only one played so far by the London club.

For her coach Emma Hayes it was the last opportunity to give the London club the long-awaited Championssince at the end of the season she will leave the position she has held since 2012 to become the United States coach.