Barcelona defeated Lyon and received the Girls’s Champions League in football for the 3rd time

Barcelona received the Girls’s Champions League in football this night (Saturday). The Spanish champions beat Lyon 0:2 within the ultimate and retained their identify from the former season. Barcelona’s two Spanish stars Etna Bonamati and Alexia Potias scored in entrance of fifty,827 spectators on the San Mames stadium in Bilbao, probably the most ever within the stadium.

The 2 highest groups in Europe lately met for the 3rd time within the final 6 years within the Champions League ultimate. Lyon, the queen of wins within the manufacturing unit with 8 wins, received the former two instances within the 2018/19 and 2021/22 seasons. This time Barcelona had the higher hand with their 3rd manufacturing unit win and 2d in a row.

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Barcelona, ​​which received the championship within the earlier season, defeated the Norwegian Bran within the quarter-finals and the English champion Chelsea within the semi-finals. Lyon simply defeated Benfica within the quarter-finals and handed PSG within the semi-finals of the French derby.

Barcelona scored the primary purpose of the sport within the 63rd minute. Patri Gihero passed the ball to Mariona Caldantei who put the ball between two Lyon gamers and Itana Bonamati. The participant of the yr on the earth entered the Lyon sq. and from a hard perspective kicked the ball that hit the leg of the Canadian brakeman Vanessa Gill and went over the palms of the goalkeeper Christina Endler. Bonamati together with her sixth purpose of the season within the Champions League.

Etna Bonamati from Barcelona celebrates a purpose within the Girls’s Champions League ultimate towards Olympique Lyonnais (Photograph: AP/Alvaro Barrientos)

In opposition to the tip, Lyon pressed the Barcelona protection in an try to get the equaliser. All over the added time, Barcelona trainer Jonathan Giraldes determined to make a double substitution when he introduced at the younger skill Claudia Pina and the emblem of the crew Alexia Potias.

The spare used to be bingo on the best way to victory. Deep within the added time, Claudia Pina broke thru at the proper wing of the assault and handed a pass to Potias, who from the penalty space secured the victory with an enormous purpose.