Olympique Lyonnais' French defender Wendie Renard (C) holds the trophy with teammates as they celebrate their victory after the UEFA Women's Champions League final football match Vfl Wolfsburg vs Olympique Lyonnais at the Valeriy Lobanovsky stadium in Kiev on May 24, 2018. - Olympique Lyonnais won 4-1, their third trophy in a row. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP) (Photo credit should read FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images)
Olympique Lyonnais Féminin thrashed Asisat Oshoala’s Barcelona 4-1 to clinch their fourth back-to-back Champions League trophy at the Ferencvaros Stadium, Budapest.
Oshoala’s dream of a victory over Lyon to make the Catalan side the first club to win the Champions League with both their male and female sides was dashed.
Lyonnais have now won six Champion League title within nine years.
Barca, who had not conceded a goal in six Champions League fixtures before the final, found themselves four down after half an hour.
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Dzsenifer Marozsan gave Lyonnais the lead in the minute.
Ada Hegerberg scored a hat trick to compound Oshoala’s Barca side in the
Oshoala came on for Toni Dugan in the 70th minute for the La Liga Geminin side who had their first appearance in the Champions League final.
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The Super Falcons pacy forward turned on the afterburners to meet a perfectly weighted defence-splitting pass by Martens for a Barca consolation goal.
The game’s tempo unsurprisingly dropped down a notch in the second half.
Hegerberg got a half-chance to plunder a fourth, as a half-cleared set-piece dropped to her feet inside the box, but she miskicked.
Lyonnais have won thirteen straight domestic league titles.
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The European champions also won ten domestic Cup since 2003 and just two league defeats in nine seasons.
Reynald Pedros’ team have attained a level of supremacy not just unparalleled in women’s football, nor even in all football – but in all top-level sport, anywhere, any time.
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