Chelsea 0 Barcelona 4Barcelona have won the Women’s Champions League after subjecting Chelsea to a brutal blitz of four first-half goals from which Emma Hayes’s side could never recover. They also arrived in Gothenburg in contention for a historic quadruple, having completed a third consecutive Women’s Super League last weekend. Barcelona, revitalised and unbeaten in the league this season, were also seeking a first Champions League success having been runners-up to Lyon in 2019. Lluis Cortes’s side reached this year’s final having knocked out Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, underlining their status as Spain’s leading women’s side. Great startBarcelona could not have envisaged a better start than the one they got: they were ahead after 37 seconds.

Source: The Irish Times May 16, 2021 21:20 UTC