The Barcelona female reached excellence in Gothenburg, where achieved its first Champions League in history , by sweeping the Chelsea 4-0 with a practically perfect performance that elevates this team to the altars of European football and the history of the Barça club.
The generation of Alexia Putellas, Aitana Bonmatí, Caroline Graham Hansen, Sandra Paños, Jennifer Hermoso, Lieke Martens and company completed a match that will be remembered for decades , especially a first part in which in the minute 36 Barcelona was already winning by 0-4 with goals from Putellas, Bonmatí, Graham Hansen and Melanie Leupolz at own goal.
CHAMPIONS FROM EUROPE 🏆 Barcelona beat Chelsea 4-0 in Sweden and won the # UWCL for the first time in its history pic.twitter.com/nOBq6BSI2e
– FutFemProf (@futfemprof) May 16, 2021
Lluís Cortés’s team started with the sixth gear on and in the second 37 already advanced on the scoreboard thanks to a fortunate action in which Francisca Kirby tried to clear the ball from the Chelsea area and it hit the body of her partner Leupolz, creating a parable towards her goal that Ann-Katrin Berger could do nothing before.
The play had originated with Lieke Martens driving, the first of many, which ended with a shot from the front that crashed into the crossbar.
The replica of the Premier champions came in the next action with a shot from Pernille Harder in the inside the area that came off a bit over the goal of Sandra Paños. Shortly after Harder, which cost him 300. 000 euros to Chelsea Last summer, she had the goal in her boots again, but the Spanish team’s starting goalkeeper sent the ball to a corner.
This is football, what the men’s Barcelona could not do, the women’s does brilliantly. Win the Champions League against Chelsea 0-4. In addition to being league champions, they will play in the final of the Queen’s Cup.
They want the triplet.
Great team, Barça women’s! @ FCBfemeni– José Ramón Fernández (@joserra_espn) May 16, 2021
These two mistakes cost Chelsea dearly because in the minute 14 captain Alexia Putellas, who played the final with discomfort in her left leg, converted into a goal a penalty committed by the unfortunate Leupolz, substituted at half-time, over Jennifer Hermoso.
And six minutes later the Barcelona gave the fans a wonderful play . Martens overflowed on the left, crossed for Jennifer Hermoso, who gave it back to Putellas and this at the first touch put her inside the area for Aitana Bonmatí, who calmly, with a fresh mind, beat Berger under.
🏆 PURE HISTORY! BARCELONA CHAMPION OF THE WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY!
👏🏻 Total football of the Spanish team to beat Chelsea 4-0 in the grand final in Sweden
⚽ Leupolz (against)
⚽ Putellas
⚽ Bonmatí
⚽ Hansen🙌🏻 # Female Holders pic.twitter.com/PiSA9p1VdG
– SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) May 16, 2021
Barcelona had reversed the start of the final of the 2019 in Budapest. In the minute 19 of that final, he lost by 3- 0 against Olympique de Lyon.
But Martens’ masterful internships by the band were not over yet. The one executed in the minute 36 was even more dictatorial, standing up to the edge of the small area, where she gave the ball to Caroline Graham Hansen so that she only had to push him to glory for the fourth time.
It was a shame that there could not be fans to see it in person. Instead, there will be on Saturday 29 May in Porto in the men’s Champions League final that will face Manchester City and Chelsea.
⏳ Tick, tock, tick, tock… Latest 15 minutes of the # UWCLfinal ! 😬
Chelsea 🆚 @ FCBfemeni (0-4)
Go! 🔵🔴 pic.twitter.com/ZRPeqzeN37
– FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_es) May 16, 2021
The ‘blues’ came out in the second half with the intention of at least standing up and avoiding a scandal win and that could be seen in practice with different arrivals to the Paños area, although none of them could overcome the Barça defense, who had the novelty of Patri Guijarro in the place of the sanctioned Andrea Pereira. Keira Hamraoui occupied the position that left Palma de Mallorca free in the defensive pivot.
Chelsea’s pride did not turn into goals and that left Barcelona a path empty of obstacles until the minute 90. Cortés took advantage of it to give minutes to fundamental players to fulfill this dream: Vicky Losada, Mariona Caldentey, Asisat Oshoala and especially Melanie Serrano, a lifetime of Barça.
Thus Barcelona culminated a rise to the top of European football that began in 2015 with the professionalization of the women’s team. If the Barça team also win the Queen’s Cup this season, they will achieve the Champions, League and Queen’s Cup treble for the first time in their history. Almost nothing.