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Women's Champions League Final Highlight and Recap [CHELSEA VS BARCELONA] | CBS Sports HQ
Aly Wagner and Sandra Herrera break down the impressive performance from Barcelona to win the Champions League.
Barcelona have won their first Women’s Champions League title with an astonishing 4-0 win over Chelsea in Gothenburg, Sweden.
In a match that seemed impossible to call on paper, the Spanish side ran riot in Gothenburg as goals from Alexia Putellas, Aitana Bonmatí, Caroline Graham Hansen and an own goal from Melanie Leupolz humbled a shell shocked Chelsea side.
The win ended 5 years of irrepressible Lyon dominance in the competition and confirmed Barcelona as Europe’s new powerhouses.
Did Chelsea make the Spanish giants look better than they are, though? Or are the Catalonian side truly unstoppable right now?
The stats don’t lie
Barcelona’s domestic form this season emphasises quite how dominant they’ve become. In 26 league games, they’ve registered 128 goals and conceded just five. Such is their invincibility, that they are currently leading the league by 14 points, having played four games less than second-place Real Madrid.
They may have lost to Atlético Madrid in the semi-finals of the Supercopa de España Femenina but are on track to win the Copa de la Reina. A win in this competition would seal a truly remarkable treble.
Writing the wrongs of 2019
Just two years ago, Barcelona suffered a similar fate to Chelsea in a Champions League final, losing 4-1 to Lyon.
At that stage, the French team were seemingly unbeatable, but the Spanish champions have gone from strength to strength since then –– bringing in the likes of Caroline Graham Hansen and resigning the clinical Jenni Hermoso –– both of whom were unplayable this evening.