Football: the Lyonnaises unbeatable in the Champions League

The Lyonnaises celebrate Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir's goal against Wolsburg, in the Champions League final, August 30, 2020. REUTERS / Clive Brunskill

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The women's section of Olympique Lyonnais won 3-1 against Wolsburg in the Champions League final, this Sunday, August 30, in San Sebastián, Spain. This is OL's seventh European coronation, the fifth in a row.

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Nobody stops the Olympique Lyonnais, in the feminine. Champions of France every season since 2007, the Lyonnaises have also been marching on Europe since 2016. If at the national level, Paris Saint-Germain tries to make it difficult for them, on the European scene it is most often Wolsburg who try, in vain, like this Sunday, August 30.

After their defeat in the Champions League final against the German club in 2013, OL have always dominated the six-fold champions of Germany at the same stage of the competition in 2016, 2018 and 2020. A Franco-German biennial that smiles on Lyonnaises now seven times European champions.

Chills in the second half

From the start of this final, Jean-Luc Vasseur's players assumed their status as favorites by storming the opposing goal. Amel Majri always well placed on her left side, twirling Delphine Cascarino and Eugénie Le Sommer poison of the German defense: these three were the great architects of a first period one-sided which saw the number 9 open the scoring in two times on a service from Cascarino (25th) and the Japanese Saki Kumagai double the bet with a nice shot at the entrance to the area (44th). 2-0 at the break, OL have their subject under control against a harmless Wolsburg team.

But, returning from the locker room, the German champions reduced the gap on one of their rare occasions thanks to Alexandra Popp, head (57th). The Lyonnaises doubt, retreat but ultimately concede little to the Germans until the goal of the deliverance of the Icelandic Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir who, against her former club, takes back at the far post a missed half-volley from Le Sommer (88th) .

3-1, it takes a lot more to worry the best team of the decade which, before Wolsburg, had brought down Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain in this final tournament in Spain.

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