That concludes the blog for this Friday. Thanks for reading. Here’s to a weekend of cup finals.
It’s the Women’s Champions League final, kicking off at 3pm.
Couple of pieces to set the scene.
Suzanne Wrack:
Included in that number are England’s Lucy Bronze and Keira Walsh. Bronze has been here before, having won the Champions League twice with Lyon, but this is Walsh’s first final. “She’s a fantastic player,” said her teammate Caroline Graham Hansen. “We’re very lucky to have her. She has very good vision for the game. She has adapted well. It’s not easy to come to Barça and play as a No 6.
Jonas Eidevall is the Arsenal Women manager: here’s his tactical preview.
Barcelona do not have as much explosiveness and speed up front as Wolfsburg offer through Jónsdóttir and Ewa Pajor, and they are not as direct, but it is so difficult to win the ball off them. When they do lose the ball, they are so well positioned to counterpress, win it back quickly and keep the ball in the area they lost it in, making your exertions fruitless.
