Barcelona Femení entered Saturday’s UEFA Women’s Champions League final as the reigning European queens and on the heels of a perfect season in the Spanish league, but Lyon wasn’t buying the hype. As far as the French power is confirmed, the continent still belongs to them.
The now-eight-time European champions showed it Saturday in Turin, Italy, jumping out to a 3–0 lead in the final en route to a 3–1 triumph that restores the club’s place as the preeminent team on the continent. The 33-minute blitz to open the match was punctuated by U.S. women’s national team rising star Catarina Macario’s tap-in, which made her the first U.S. international to ever score in a European Champions League final. Both Macario and her USWNT teammate Lindsey Horan were in the Lyon XI for the match.
