Chelsea 0 - 4 FC Barcelona
⚽️ Melanie Leupolz 1' (OG)
⚽️ Alexia Putellas 14' (P)
⚽️ Aitana Bonmatí 20' 🅰️ Alexia Putellas
⚽️ Caroline Graham-Hansen 36' 🅰️ Lieke Martens
Okay let's recap the European season for the Blaugrana queens
We start back on December 9 with the first European match of the season against PSV, the round of 32, which ended in a 1-4 victory (Jenni Hermoso 4', Van den Berg 45'+1 OG, Asisat Oshoala 66', Lieke Martens 75').
We hop a week to the 2nd leg where the Blaugrana ladies came out with another 4-1 victory (Caroline Graham Hansen 4', 61' Lieke Martens 41', 75') 8-2 aggregate.
Jump 3 months on March 3 to the 1st leg of the round of 16 against Fortuna Hjørring, which ended in a 4-0 victory (Jenni Hermoso 12' 18' 57' Alexia Putellas 82')
And a week later in the 2nd leg in which the result was almost similar with a 0-5 victory for the Blaugrana ladies (Aitana Bonmati 36' 49', Mariona Caldentey 55' (p), Asisat Oshoala 78', Marta Torrejón 86'
And we are off to the quarter-finals, two weeks later, against Manchester City, a match that ended in a 3-0 victory for the Blaugrana team with Sandra's penalty save turning out to be the crucial factor of the 1/2 finals qualification (Asisat Oshoala 35', Mariona Caldentey 53' (p), Jenni Hermoso 86')
Then on March 31st, Barça booked their tickets to the UWCL semi-finals despite losing 2-1 to Manchester City, with Asisat scoring the only goal for the team, and the aggregate finally being 2-4 for the Blaugranas. Waiting for the result of the PSG-Lyon which was played on April 18 with the Parisian side coming out on top and assuring a new name would be written on the trophy.
On April 25, Barcelona played PSG at Stade Georges Lefevre with the match ending in both controversy and a 1-1 result (Jenni Hermoso 13'), away goal secured, it was time to finish the job at the Johan Cruyff.
May 2, Barça beat PSG 2-1 to qualify for their 2nd UWCL final with Lieke Martens scoring both goals 8' 31 and the aggregate being 3-2. Crucial away goals... gotta love them.
Between the Semis 2nd leg and the Final, Barça played 2 matches. One was the CDR quarter-finals match against Sevilla which ended in a 1-4 victory for the Ladies and the other was the La Liga winning match against Granadilla, due to which FC Barcelona was mathematically proclaimed as La Liga Champions for the 2nd year in a row and without a single dropped point. But that's another discussion by itself, we'll do that at the end of the season.
On to the biggest day of the year.. Sunday, May 16, 2021, 21:00 PM CET, Gamla Ullevi, Göteborg, Sweden .. H1STORY WAS MADE.
After the devastating 2019 UWCL final, The team's first-ever UWCL final, against Lyon, in which the girls were outclassed losing 4-1 (3-0 in the first 30 minutes of the match), and after 2 years of hard work, the Ladies showed the whole continent, hell the whole world even, that they have arrived, that they should be a force to be reckoned with. Completely dominating the newly proclaimed back-to-back English Champions in the first 20 minutes scoring 3 goals, and a fourth one 15 minutes later. Throughout the match, the Blaugrana ladies showed efficiency in attack and in the defensive prowess that was exhibited in that 2nd half to hold off the Blues who came in with the intent to turn the score around.
The Blaugrana Queens Reigned Supreme.
And now some stats and facts for fun.
Starting with the obvious, Jennifer Hermoso was this season's UWCL top scorer with 6 goals.
FC Barcelona became the first Spanish team to win the UWCL trophy.
FC Barcelona also became the first Club ever to win both the UWCL and the UCL trophies.
With the Ladies being crowned UWCL champions, FC Barcelona added another European trophy to its Museum tallying up 44 European titles divided throughout all of the Club's sections.
1 UWCL | 5 UCLs | 2 UEFA Youth Leagues | 2 Euroleagues | 22 Rink Hockey Euroleague (most championships) | 9 EHF Champions League (most championships) | 3 UEFA Futsal Champions League
The Blaugrana ladies played 9 matches, scoring 29 goals (3.222 goals/match) and conceding 5 goals (0.555 goals/match)
Throughout the 9 matches, the ladies averaged 54.222% in possession with the highest % coming against Fortuna (away) 73% and the lowest against Manchester City (away) 50%.
163 shots were taken (18.111 shots/match)
68 shots were on target (41.717%)
29 goals out of 68 shots on target (42.647%)
Playing time:
Mapi: 724 minutes
Alexia: 706 minutes
Leila: 698 minutes
Marta: 693 minutes
Aitana: 690 minutes
Andrea P: 669 minutes
Sandra: 630 minutes
Caroline: 623 minutes
Patri: 578 minutes
Lieke: 552 minutes
Jenni: 512 minutes
Mariona: 466 minutes
Asisat: 327 minutes
Kheira: 256 minutes
Vicky: 219 minutes
Ana: 127 minutes
Melanie: 111 minutes
Jana: 101 minutes
Cata: 90 minutes
Gemma: 90 minutes
Andrea F: 41 minutes
Bruna: 11 minutes
Laia: 0 minutes
Meritxell: 0 minutes