Arsenal Women Stun Barcelona To End Their Reign As European Champions
The post Arsenal Women Stun Barcelona To End Their Reign As European Champions appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. LISBON, PORTUGAL – MAY 24: Stina Blackstenius of Arsenal Women FC, players of Arsenal Women FC … More celebrate the first goal during the UEFA Women’s Champions League Final match between FC Barcelona and Arsenal WFC at Estadio Jose Alvalade on May 24, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Leiting Gao/BSR Agency/Getty Images) Getty Images Arsenal Women won their second Champions League title to end the reign of FC Barcelona, the winners of the competition in the previous two seasons. A single goal from substitute Stina Blackstenius won the match, a result that had looked unlikely for most of the second half. Arsenal, who were the only previous English winners of the competition in 2007 in its previous guise of the UEFA Women’s Cup, thus also became the first English team to win the modern UEFA Women’s Champions League. Barcelona started with Claudia Pina, the top goalscorer in the Champions League this season with ten goals and suffered a major scare midway through the first half when their defender Irene Paredes turned a low Frida Maanum cross into her own net. After encouragement from the Barcelona players, the goal was reviewed by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), who adjudged that Maanum had strayed marginally offside before receiving the ball. The goal was disallowed. LISBON, PORTUGAL – MAY 24: Players of Arsenal celebrate a own goal scored Irene Paredes of FC … More Barcelona, which was later ruled out for offside during the UEFA Women’s Champions League final match between Arsenal WFC and FC Barcelona at Estadio Jose Alvalade on May 24, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Jan Kruger – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images) UEFA via Getty Images Arsenal were playing in a record 15th match in the competition this season having entered the competition at the First Qualifying Round…
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LISBON, PORTUGAL – MAY 24: Stina Blackstenius of Arsenal Women FC, players of Arsenal Women FC … More celebrate the first goal during the UEFA Women’s Champions League Final match between FC Barcelona and Arsenal WFC at Estadio Jose Alvalade on May 24, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Leiting Gao/BSR Agency/Getty Images) Getty Images Arsenal Women won their second Champions League title to end the reign of FC Barcelona, the winners of the competition in the previous two seasons. A single goal from substitute Stina Blackstenius won the match, a result that had looked unlikely for most of the second half. Arsenal, who were the only previous English winners of the competition in 2007 in its previous guise of the UEFA Women’s Cup, thus also became the first English team to win the modern UEFA Women’s Champions League. Barcelona started with Claudia Pina, the top goalscorer in the Champions League this season with ten goals and suffered a major scare midway through the first half when their defender Irene Paredes turned a low Frida Maanum cross into her own net. After encouragement from the Barcelona players, the goal was reviewed by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), who adjudged that Maanum had strayed marginally offside before receiving the ball. The goal was disallowed. LISBON, PORTUGAL – MAY 24: Players of Arsenal celebrate a own goal scored Irene Paredes of FC … More Barcelona, which was later ruled out for offside during the UEFA Women’s Champions League final match between Arsenal WFC and FC Barcelona at Estadio Jose Alvalade on May 24, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Jan Kruger – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images) UEFA via Getty Images Arsenal were playing in a record 15th match in the competition this season having entered the competition at the First Qualifying Round…
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