Turin. When the truth caught up with Barcelona, I knocked on the door.
Leon walked up to the party with their sleeves rolled up.
It exploded in crosses and in duels as the Champions League champions showed what a Champions League treasury should represent.
My eyes teared up here in the stands in Turin like this a few minutes after the end of the final.
When the scenes are beautiful Barcelona Fans in the stands comfort their players with song and caressing applause. Barcelona sped forward like a fast train across Europe. But the braking was severe this evening.
leon– The ghost on the other side of the midfield is still there and after 90 minutes it can be played Ada Hegerberg And Wendy Renard Land in each other’s arms and enjoy.
There was no change in power.
Every Saturday before kick-off, the industrial city of Turin is painted red, blue and yellow. Barcelona fever was as hot as the temperature in Italy. Girls and boys, women and men waving flags on their cheeks felt calm in the city’s fountains. The atmosphere was expected, but not supportive in any way.
In Catalonia, there is respect – and some experience – for nicknames.
Lyon came to Turin with seven CL victories in their hefty baggage and knowing they had never lost to the new favorite team in Europe.
Lyon’s coach has done his homework
With his unrivaled journey from the last loss to Lyon in 2019, Barcelona has fulfilled an ultimate dream. Defending the hero and the team is on everyone’s lips.
French women don’t need extra lighter fluid before a meeting, but they still wonder if they’re an outsider.
Before kick-off, an original, deafening roar rang out from 14,000 Barcelona fans in the stands, but after 50 minutes, round French tunes sounded over the Juventus stadium in Turin. They continued until the final signal.
After 53 minutes, the home team managed to take a 1 – 0 lead when Wendie Renard curled the ball home after a cross from the right.
Leon stepped into the party with his sleeves rolled up. Criticized from the first moment and when Judge Lina Letovara stood as tall as Finnish pine, the French took charge.
Those of us who’ve met Amandine Henry’s look know it’s pretty tough. Too cramped scary. This was also the intention to win the ball, in the sixth minute. The 32-year-old packed the ball when Ada Hegerberg allowed her team to move on. Barcelona shooting queen Alexia Potilas rushed to the press and could fire a free kick to Henry’s straight legs, but when the referee suggested, the Frenchwoman woke up and accused the dream match that would go down in history as one of the most exciting Champions League matches. beauty.
Of course, Henry knew Sandra Banus only dropped two shots from distance against Wolfsburg in the semi-finals, even though the distinguished pearl had a peculiar spirit and found her own path.
Lions coach Sonia Bombastor, who has now won the Champions League as a player and as a coach, has done her homework in many ways.
We have been blinded by Barcelona’s progress
In the 2019 final, Barcelona defensively underperformed, especially on the surfaces between the center back and the full-back. In that match, Maria Pilar Leon was a safety hazard and so was the case this evening.
After Amandine Henry’s dream match, it was archery queen Ada Hegerberg’s turn to score. Selma Pasha and French Whirlwind Melvin Mallard combined to send Lyon’s left wing, and the Norwegian could get so much time that she seemed surprised.
There were three Barcelona players nearby, one of whom should have kept an eye on Lyon’s most dangerous threat in the penalty area, but instead Lyon (!) jumped with his back to the ball in an ineffective attempt that resulted in neither the ball nor the player being stopped.
Barcelona tried to answer, but lost the duels, and star Alexia Putillas bitterly tested that mountains cannot always be climbed quickly or cleverly. Sometimes the boom stops.
Although it gave Barcelona hope of dropping them to 1-3 and the long lobby shot from midfield that hit the bar could have meant a more serious impact, the feeling that Lyon played the match was clever.
The French slowed down, their tightness at each other, and when she eased goalkeeper Kristen Endler, she simultaneously provoked Barcelona fans who screamed behind her back.
At the same time, Barcelona has never risen to the level the team has reached in recent years.
One of the team’s main players was left-back Fridolina Rulfo. Possibly a little problem in the center of play defensively, but Fridolina was behind several balls from his left edge that created positions in the middle.
Barcelona did not have the weight and efficiency that Lyon offered.
When the two teams first met in a practice match in 2012, Barcelona’s Melanie Serrano tested her as “a plane she flew.”
Four meetings and then four defeats, we did not talk about the same height difference.
But Leon was the best when it came to that.
When President Jean-Michel Aulas raised the bow until his arms shook, it was further evidence that the best club in women’s football is thriving to the highest degree.
We were stunned by Barcelona’s progress, but this evening it was Lyon’s final live backed experience that touched deeply.
Sometimes it just comes down to the basics.
And then you hit the soccer ball.
