Lyon gained the Women’s Champions League for a fifth consecutive 12 months as they beat Wolfsburg 3-1 in San Sebastian.
Sunday’s victory noticed England right-back Lucy Bronze win her third straight European crown with the French membership, who’ve claimed a document seven titles.
France’s Eugenie le Sommer opened the scoring and Japan’s Saki Kumagai lashed in to place Lyon 2-Zero up at half-time.
Alexandra Popp headed in for Wolfsburg after the break however Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir’s late third sealed it.
Bronze’s England team-mates Jodie Taylor and Alex Greenwood each got here on as substitutes for the champions, however their fourth Lionesses star – ahead Nikita Parris – was absent by suspension.
The perimeters have been assembly within the closing for the fourth time since 2013 however the French staff claimed their third win from these 4 conferences, as they beat the Bundesliga champions for a fifth season in a row within the Champions League.
The outcome prolonged Lyon’s supreme command over the continent’s largest girls’s soccer competitors as they gained the title for the seventh time in 9 closing look since 2010.
Performed in entrance of no followers within the residence floor of Spanish males’s aspect Actual Sociedad, the ultimate concluded a nine-day mini match of one-legged knockout video games in northern Spain, after March’s quarter-finals needed to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
England striker Taylor went near including a fourth for the dominant French aspect in second-half stoppage time however was denied by low save from Wolfsburg keeper Friederike Abt.
Lyon’s dominant period reaches 10th season
The 2 sides have been assembly within the closing for the fourth time since 2013 however the French staff claimed their third win from these 4 conferences, as they beat the Bundesliga champions for a fifth season in a row within the Champions League.
The outcome prolonged Lyon’s supreme command over the continent’s largest girls’s soccer competitors as they gained the title for the seventh time of their ninth closing look since 2010.
Performed in entrance of no followers within the residence floor of Spanish males’s aspect Actual Sociedad, the ultimate concluded a nine-day mini match of one-legged knockout video games in northern Spain, after March’s preliminary quarter-finals needed to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
England striker Taylor went near including a fourth for the dominant French aspect in second-half stoppage time however was denied by low save from Wolfsburg keeper Friederike Abt.
That got here shortly after Le Sommer’s fierce effort had deflected in on the far submit off former Wolfsburg midfielder Gunnarsdottir to make it 3-1.
In distinctive circumstances, the Iceland worldwide was eligible to obtain medals as each a winner and runner-up, having signed for Lyon from Wolfsburg this summer time and with Uefa permitting gamers to register for a second staff this season for the competitors, as a one-off rule due to the virus.
Her third purpose eased any rigidity for the French staff, after Germany striker Popp had nodded residence from shut vary shortly after half-time.
However Wolfsburg couldn’t conjure a well-known comeback, regardless of the efforts of the superb Denmark playmaker Pernille More durable, who’s reportedly on the verge of a transfer to English champions Chelsea.
Within the first half, More durable’s team-mates have been sluggish to react within the field as they allowed Le Sommer to fit in on the rebound, after good work down the correct from her France team-mate Delphine Cascarino, who precipitated issues all through the sport. Japan legend Kumagai then gave Lyon management of the sport as she struck a candy second from outdoors the field.
The match lastly introduced the prolonged 2019-20 European season to an finish for each males’s and girls’s soccer, a day after England’s high groups competed within the 2021-21 Group Protect fixtures.
