This was an extraordinary, historic occasion and it got a game to go with it: 91,553 people came to the Camp Nou, the biggest attendance for a women’s football match, and if this is anything to go by they will be back. In the semi-final, for a start. They haven’t had a night quite like this here for a long time, maybe ever, ending it elated. When eventually they did end it, that is: the full-time whistle went but no one wanted to go home yet.
“This is just too crazy,” Caroline Graham Hansen said. “If we are having fun, people will want to repeat it.” Oh, they were having fun, all right. Long after goals from her, Mapi León, Aitana Bonmati, Claudia Pina and Alexia Putellas had enabled Barcelona to come from 2-1 down to defeat Real Madrid 5-2 on the night, 8-3 on aggregate, to reach the Champions League semi-finals, the players were still out there and so were many of the fans who had accompanied them in breaking a record.
