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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Suzanne Wrack in Bilbao

Five talking points from the Women’s Champions League final

Alexia Putellas celebrates while a teammate holds her shirt up behind her.
Alexia Putellas (right) scored Barcelona’s second goal to clinch the Champions League title. Photograph: Europa Press Sports/Europa Press/Getty Images

Putellas’s timely reminder

Long live the queen. It took only three minutes after coming on, deep into injury time, for Alexia Putellas to seal Barcelona’s 2-0 victory against Lyon. The 30‑year‑old has played a bit‑part role since her anterior cruciate ligament injury on the eve of the 2022 European Championship but her influence still runs through the club with an unmatched intensity. Putellas’s new contract is well deserved; the roar of the crowd when she stood on the sidelines ready to come on rivalled those for the goals. Barcelona with Putellas back at her best should strike fear through every European club with Champions League ambitions.

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