{"id":1089551,"date":"2019-05-18T18:51:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T17:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1089551"},"modified":"2021-09-14T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:42:35","slug":"lyon-vs-barcelona-womens-champions-league-final-hegerberg","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/lyon-vs-barcelona-womens-champions-league-final-hegerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyon 4-1 Barcelona: Five things learned as record-breaking Hegerberg seals Women’s Champions League title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lyon crushed Barcelona 4-1 to win the 2019 Uefa Women’s Champions League final in Budapest on Saturday. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The French side are the undisputed dominant force in women’s football right now but despite that, many expected a closer affair between them and a usually resolute Barcelona side.<\/p>\n

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Women’s Ballon d’Or holder Ada Hegerberg, though, had other ideas, bagging a 30-minute hat-trick in the first half as Lyon pulled their Spanish opponents apart. Asisat Oshoala restored some pride for Barca with a late consolation goal but it did little to dent the Lyon celebrations at the final whistle.<\/p>\n

But what did we learn from Saturday’s showpiece?<\/p>\n

1. Pacesetters<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lyon have had a vice-like grip over the women’s game in recent years, both domestically and on the continent.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s stroll against Barcelona landed the French side their fourth Champions League title in a row, their fourth treble in five seasons and a record sixth Champions League title in total \u2013 we should probably mention their 13 consecutive Division 1 F\u00e9minine titles, too.<\/p>\n

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That’s an absolutely ridiculous list of records and seal this latest title with a thumping win over a Barcelona side that conceded just 15 goals in 30 league games in their domestic season is all the more impressive.<\/p>\n

Giving their almost criminal winning habit over the past decade-and-a-half, it’s hard to see anyone stopping this Lyon side.<\/p>\n

2. Hegerberg lives up to her billing <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Winner of the inaugural Ballon d’Or Feminin award, Ada Hegerberg rocked up to the Champions League final, proved exactly why she holds that title, dropped the mic and then walked out.<\/p>\n

There was simply no stopping the Norway international as she cut through Barcelona like a buzzsaw with a 16-minute hat-trick \u2013 the first in a women’s Champions League final since the competition was rebranded in 2019 \u2013 taking her season tally to 31 goals in 26 games.<\/p>\n

Impressed? Well, wait until you hear this: Hegerberg’s haul in Saturday’s showpiece in Budapest takes her to a career total of 255 goals in 254 games. She’s 23-years-old!<\/p>\n

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Hegerberg also has 38 goals in 66 caps for Norway but will miss this summer’s World Cup in France due to her long-standing protest against her nation’s treatment of female footballers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a world where equality is the most important thing. That\u2019s where we need… change,” she told Reuters<\/a> recently. “There are federations, there are clubs, there are men in high positions who have a responsibility to put women in the right place too.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s where I think, I feel and I know we have a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

That’s a whole lot of goals for Norway to be missing out on.<\/p>\n