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Fridolina Rolfö participated in Wolfsburg’s goal.
But Lyon took their fifth consecutive CL title.
Here are Andréas Sundberg’s five scouts.
Still extremely dominant
Lyon claimed their fifth consecutive Champions League title. And for the fifth year in a row, the team beat Wolfsburg, three times in the final and twice in the quarter-finals. An absolutely incredible result and no one can deny that the French club is the best. A total of seven CL titles are also the best, three more than Frankfurt. An example of Lyon’s strength is Eugénie Le Sommer. With Ada Hegerberg not recovered from an injury and Nikita Parris suspended, Le Sommer had to start as a forward, and the third option as a forward thanked and scored a goal and an assist. Totally good width.
Weak defensive effort and few opportunities created
Wolfsburg tried to exert a lot of pressure but couldn’t do it because Lyon were too skilled and played over and over again. The defense was bad several times in the semifinal against Barcelona, and Lyon was one more step and it was too much for Wolfsburg. Dominique Janssen had a hard time with Delphine Cascarino. Ingrid Engen and Alexandra Popp fought Sara Gunnarsdottir, Saki Kumagai and Dzsenifer Marozsán.
Offensively, Wolfsburg had a hard time creating scoring chances, and it was really just one shot, and then it turned into a goal. Players like Svenja Huth, Alexandra Popp, Ewa Pajor and Anna Blässe failed to make it to the level.
Rolfö again involved in Wolfsburg’s goal
Fridolina Rolfö started on the left, but switched several times between the edges during the first half. In others, it was almost always on the left. Not just against Lyons’ skilled right-back with Lucy Bronze and Delphine Cascarino.
It was a tough match for Rolfö, which didn’t make much sense to work with, as Wolfsburg had to defend mainly in the first half, but attack a bit more in the second. But Rolfö was one of the few on the German team who was approved. She challenged and gained the advantage over her opponent several times. In the cut, Pernille Harder learned that Rolfö hit a pole. Goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi came out and grabbed the ball but released it. Pajor with a new post for Popp who scored an open goal and headed in at 1-2.
The best was Cascarino
Sure, it disappeared in the second half, but it only needed one half to be the biggest difference between the teams. How fast, what confidence, what courage. This was Cascarino’s fifth CL title. She’s 23 years old.
Lyon had five great chances in the final. Cascarino was involved in four of them.
18 minutes: Cascarino got on the right wing, passed Janssen and took shots that were saved to the corner.
25 minutes: 1-0: Marozsán found Cascarino in the right back, put the ball diagonally behind his back. Le Sommer got two finals. First Friederike rescued Abt but the next time he sat down.
44 minutes: 2-0: Cascarino turned right again and passed Janssen again. The ball ended up in Kumagai’s dream pressed from 20 meters. The ball sat discreetly behind Abt.
50 minutes: Cascarino joked with Janssen and Engen and found Le Sommer who pulled up, but this time not shot.
An amazing blast when Harder leaves
Pernille Harder seems to have done his part in Wolfsburg. He leaves after scoring 103 goals in 112 games, in all competitions, including 38 in 33 games this season.
It’s not just a blow to Wolfsburg, but to the entire Bundesliga when Harder now chooses to move to Chelsea. The question is how will the great German club recover?
Harder is one of the best players in the world and she is not alone in choosing to leave Germany. More and more great players have been doing it lately.
In Chelsea, Harder joins Melanie Leupolz, who recently left Bayern Munich. Last year, Caroline Graham Hansen left Wolfsburg for Barcelona and Sara Däbritz left Bayern Munich for PSG. And in Sunday’s CL final, Sara Björk Gunnarsdottir left for Lyon, leaving Wolfsburg earlier this year.
It is not easy for Wolfsburg to replace Pernille Harder. But it is not entirely impossible that the Danish star will also go far in the CL next season. Now Chelsea have a super attack with Harder, Sam Kerr and Beth England.
