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Ingrid Syrstad Engen played the entire final defeat against Lyon. Although the reigning champions were too strong, NRK football expert Morten Morisbak Skjønserg did not think that the midfielder would disappear among the elite.
– This is the best quality football in the world, so it is quite big that Ingrid Syrstad Engen is in Wolfsburg midfield, she says adding that Engen has made huge strides since the transfer of LSK Women.
– The result of the match was tense, but there were no overtaking. Although Lyon are by far the best, we see the bottom layer team coming closer, he adds.
– I should be braver
After the match, Danish Wolfsburg star Pernille Harder recounted what she missed in the first half.
– They are the best throughout the game, but we pushed them well in the second half when we dared to be braver. If we had been there from the beginning, everything could have been different, he tells Viasat after the game.
Pernille Harder meiner Wolfsburg could have had a better entry into the game.
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– You play finals to win them, and it is disappointing not to win. We work very hard for our chances. That’s not what Lyon have to do, adds Harder.
– This will not happen again
Lyon’s English right-back Lucy Bronze is not taking it easy to win the Champions League, even though she has won it several times with Lyon.
– All titles are different and special. What makes it special is that it is the fifth in a row. “I can’t imagine this happening again,” Bronze told Viasat.
Lucy Bronze has won the Champions League for a quarter of a year since she arrived in Lyon in 2017. In an interview with Viasat, she does her best to confirm that this was the last match for Lyon’s kit and that the future lies in the English league.
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When asked what makes Lyon so special, the answer comes quickly.
– The troops. There has been talk that we are missing several players, but we still won. We are missing the best soccer player in the world, he says and points to Ada Hegerberg before adding:
– We are missing the captain of the French team, we are missing one of our favorite midfielders and we are missing Nikita Parris.
Parris received a red card in the semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain and had to face the final.
It’s not easy for Engen
Since 2016, Wolfsburg have not lost in the Champions League to any team other than Lyon.
So it is not so strange that it was a difficult work day for Engen.
Several times he searched for possible passing options, but his teammates were almost always covered. In this way, Lyon managed to curb Engen’s qualities.
– She is a very good passing player, but today we could not see much, even though she appeared sometimes, says Skjønsberg.
I don’t miss hegerberg
The great talisman of Lyon in recent seasons has undoubtedly been Ada Hegerberg, who in 2019 was named the best soccer player in the world.
You’d think her loss was great in such an important match, but Eugénie Le Sommers and Saki Kumagais scored a quarter of their goal in the first half and the reigning champions had good control.
For the fifth year in a row, Lyon were able to lift the Champions League trophy.
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Wolfsburg veteran Alexandra Popp raised hopes for the Germans when she made a reduction just before the second half turned a quarter of an hour.
Hope was still fading two minutes before full time when Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir scored the last goal of the game.
It was very bitter for those with a heart for Wolfsburg that she had just scored. Gunnarsdóttir came to Lyon from the Germans in the middle of the current season, after five years at the club.
