Arsenal raises the UEFA women’s champions league with a 1-0 victory which ended the hope of Barcelona at three peat.
Arsenal upset the title Champions Barcelona 1-0 to win the female Champions League for the second time.
Stina Blackstenius scored in the 75th minute after being installed by his compatriot of the second half Beth Mead in the final at Estadio Jose Alvalade in Lisbon on Saturday.
The title of Arsenal occurred 18 years after it became the first, and still the only English club to win the title of the best club in women’s football.
Arsenal players kissed the final whistle and ran to celebrate in front of the red and white corner of the stands, which were otherwise dressed in Burgundy and Blue.
“We believed from the moment our trip to the Champions League started,” said Arsenal striker Alessia Russo to the TNT Sports broadcast. “We knew we had the capacity. We knew we could be quite good. It was simply a question of going to do it. And we did it! ”
Barcelona was considered the big favorite. They aimed at a fourth title in five years and become the only team other than Lyon to win three consecutive titles. The team led by the winners of the Ballon d’Or, Aitana Bonmati and Alexia Putellas twice, won nine matches in competition and exploded Wolfsburg and the English champion Chelsea during the direct elimination towers.
But Arsenal locked himself up in defense, except at the start of the second half, and created the best chances. Only two superb judgments of the Barcelona Cat Cot Coll goalkeeper to deny Frida Maanum and Blackstenius kept him aimlessly, until Blackstenius bats her.
The victory marks an incredible end for an rocky season for Arsenal, who included coach Jonas Eidevall resigning and replaced by the assistant Renee Seglers.
Since its takeover, Seglers has led the team through a spectacular European campaign. Arsenal has accumulated his confidence in the victories to come on Real Madrid and the champion eight times Lyon in the tours with direct elimination before placing the Almighty Barcelona.
The loss was a huge disappointment for the large Barcelona fans group who filled the stadium that houses Sporting Lisbon. Blue shirts and flags were more numerous than the red and white section, but their calls of “Yes we can!” In the last minutes, weren’t enough to inspire a return from the Catalan club.
The closest Barcelona arrived at a goal was a shot from Claudia Pina who struck the transverse bar just after half-time when the Spanish team had its best period. Otherwise, the game was to the taste of Arsenal.
“We are sorry for all our fans who came to support us,” said Bonmati at Catalunya Radio on the ground before the award ceremony. “We will try to start again.”
Arsenal shook a few first defense tremors and quickly had Barcelona on the back. Arsenal pressure on the field prevented Barcelona from advancing their possession game, and Arsenal found spaces with long balls on the left flank.
The English striker Russo was a rock for Arsenal, using his size to win balls and maintain the attack.
Arsenal thought he had been forward in the 22nd, but a video review gave up its own goal by Irene Paredes from Barcelona when the referee spotted an offside of Frida Maanum. Maanum then got closer with a long shot in the 27 that Coll did well to stretch and push his bar.
Bonmatí was the only Barcelona player who seemed to be in the current before half-time. His dribbling moves through the middle created some threats and kept Arsenal on the defense. Leah Williamson blocked his best shot deeply in the box in the 12th.
Barcelona came out of the restart.
Pina struck the woodwork with his shot chipped from a pointed angle in the 49th. Bonmati forced the goalkeeper Daphne Van Domselaar to get birth to draw his shot, and Ona Batle bombed the area with three long -term shots.
But Blackstenius set the tone when she had a golden chance when she stole a bullet with only cat to beat, but the goalkeeper brought her leg out to block her efforts in the 72nd. The striker in Sweden would not be refused a second time.
