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Barcelona fans sing in Bilbao ahead of Women’s Champions League final against Lyon

Second-half goals from Aitana Bonmati and Alexia Putellas earned Barcelona a 2-0 win over Olympique Lyonnais in the Women’s Champions League final, their second straight victory in the competition.

Barca, who beat Vfl Wolfsburg 3-2 in last year’s final, came into the game seeking to go one better than their 2019 and 2022 finals against French powerhouse Lyon, which they lost 4-1 and 3-1 respectively.

Bonmati, who won the Ballon d’Or and Fifa Best Women’s Player award for 2023, struck in the 63rd minute with a shot from a tight angle which deflected off Lyon’s Vanessa Gilles past keeper Christiane Endler.

With their fans vastly outnumbered at the San Mames stadium in Bilbao, Lyon sent on Norwegian striker Ada Hegerberg but the competition’s record goal-scorer was unable to find the net and Putellas came off the bench and netted a stoppage-time goal to seal Barcelona’s win.

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The ‘queen’ of Barcelona finally gets her moment to seal sweetest Women’s Champions League yet

Alexia Putellas stood on the sidelines, watching, the captain’s armband already wrapped around her left arm. For almost three years, since rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament on the eve of the Euros, Putellas has spent too long doing just that: waiting, looking on, as others have shone in the spotlight. The clock in the San Mames had reached 90 minutes. Time was up.

Yet it was Putellas who arrived just at the right moment to settle this Women’s Champions League final, striking to earn Barcelona a famous first-ever victory over Lyon and earn a third European crown in four years. With it, Lyon’s reign may be over, an era passed. Barcelona defended their Champions League and they did it their way, a 2-0 victory over the record eight-time champions sealed by their own.

There could not have been two more popular goalscorers than Putellas and Aitana Bonmati, Barcelona’s two Ballon d’Or winners. As Putellas crashed a left-footed shot high into the net, it wasn’t just the stand behind the goal that erupted; the San Mames shook. It had done so before, as Bonmati sent Barcelona on their way, but there were nerves as Lyon plotted a route back. For so long in the Women’s Champions League, Lyon were its inevitable force. Could they salvage something?

Not here, not tonight.

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Sonia Bompastor declines to talk about future after Champions League final defeat

Lyon manager Sonia Bompastor is asked about future at her press conference: “It’s not the right moment to talk about it. I’m disappointed, that’s all.”

Bompastor is expected to be announced as the next Chelsea manager, replacing Emma Hayes, but declines to confirm whether tonight was her last match as Lyon manager.

Bompastor goes on to say Barcelona are an “inspiration” and says Lyon fans should still be confident that they can compete at the top of the women’s game.

“We have to congratulate Barcelona for the passion they have for women’s football, they are an example. Lyon have experience with playing in hostile environments, but it makes a difference. It’s an inspiration for us, and for France.

“Their quality, and supporters, is very positive. All the clubs we need to be inspired by that, to find reasons to fight that.”

(REUTERS)

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