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Barcelona produced a surprising second-half comeback to beat Wolfsburg 3-2 in an exhilarating Girls’s Champions League closing in Eindhoven and safe their second European title.

The LigaF champions seemed to be overawed by the event as soon as once more as they went 2-0 down within the first half, providing shades of the 3-1 humbling by Lyon within the 2022 closing.

Ewa Pajor scored her ninth objective of the competitors as she took benefit of some sloppy play from Lucy Bronze to see Wolfsburg forward inside three minutes. Alexandra Popp added a second simply earlier than the break (37).

However the entire Germans’ good first-half work was undone in 5 minutes after the break. Patri Guijarro scored twice (48, 50) as Barcelona – the pre-match favourites – hauled themselves degree.

Their epic comeback was accomplished within the seventieth minute. After some comical defending from Wolfsburg, Frida Rolfo fired residence to safe one other Champions League title, following up on their 2021 victory.

How Barcelona got here from behind to win

Barcelona started nicely – however a mistake on the again from Bronze allowed Wolfsburg to guide inside three minute. The complete-back was caught on the ball by Pajor, muscling the England worldwide out of the best way earlier than a thunderous strike beat Sandra Panos.

Barcelona dominated the ball between the 2 objectives, and had two wonderful possibilities to equalised. The primary got here within the thirteenth minute and Irene Parades nodded a free header huge from a nook. Then, Caroline Graham Hansen couldn’t join correctly with a sensational Mapi Leon cross with solely the goalkeeper to beat.

Then, shortly earlier than the break, Wolfsburg surprised Barcelona once more. It was an devastating break from the Germans as Felicitas Rauch powered by the midfield, earlier than discovering Pajor on her proper. It was a sensational, curling cross from the ahead, with Popp forward of her marker to flick the ball residence.

Barcelona appealed for a foul within the build-up as Popp and Leon battled to achieve the ball first, and regardless of VAR trying on the incident, didn’t order a evaluation.

However Barcelona weren’t achieved but, equalising inside three minutes. Caroline Graham Hansen performed the ball into house down the precise, chasing after the ball herself, earlier than sending the ball into the center. Guijarro was there to show the ball residence – a way Barcelona had been sorely lacking within the first half.

Two minutes later and the equaliser adopted. It was nearly a carbon copy of the primary Barcelona objective too as Aitana Bonmati despatched the cross in from the precise wing. Guijarro stopped all the way down to ship a low header previous Merle Fromes, sparking scenes of untamed celebration.

As soon as Barcelona have been degree, it felt like solely a matter of time earlier than the winner got here and it will definitely occurred with 20 minutes to play. It was a comedy of errors from the Wolfsburg defence as Lynn Wilms’ try clearance hit Kathrin Hendrich from shut vary.

The ball landed to Mariona Caldentey, who managed to carry it up nicely below strain earlier than slotting the ball throughout to Rolfo. She then slotted residence into an open web, finishing the comeback.

Because the clocked ticked over into ninth added minute, Wolfsburg might have equalised themselves, however Pauline Bremer’s header from a nook went straight to Panos, earlier than the Barcelona celebrations started in earnest.

Evaluation: A closing for the ages heralds Barcelona’s period of dominance

Sky Sports activities’ Charlotte Marsh:

“What a closing. A sport for the ages and an excellent advert for simply how thrilling girls’s soccer is.

“The straightforward truth: all of the issues Barcelona weren’t executing nicely within the first half, they started to do after the break and that is once they began to click on.

“Their crosses into the field have been beginning to be discovered – particularly for his or her two early second half objectives. Passes began to be threaded collectively nicely, Wolfsburg’s dominance and disruption in midfield was nullified, their defences breached.

“5 minutes after the beginning of the second half, with Barcelona degree, you knew they might go on to win. Wolfsburg have been deflated and struggled to deal with the opposition that ought to have proven up for your complete 90 minutes.

“It’s a must to really feel for Wolfsburg too. That they had the tie of their fingers and took benefit of an under-par Barcelona efficiency within the first half, however they have been merely blown away by an unimaginable workforce.

“They’d not have been anticipating the identical from Barcelona after the break, however their sport plan merely didn’t work.

“Lyon have dominated European competitors for thus lengthy, however you now must say that is the beginning of Barcelona’s dominant period. A potent pressure that many will battle to cease.”

When and the place is the 2023 Girls’s World Cup?

This yr’s event shall be held in Australia and New Zealand making it the first-ever co-hosted Girls’s World Cup.

The event begins on July 20 with the ultimate going down on August 20 in Sydney on the Accor Stadium.

The USA are the defending champions and wish to develop into the primary workforce within the competitors’s historical past to win the event 3 times in a row.