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    Gold or silver for Bronze: Wolfsburg v Lyon

    England full back Lucy Bronze will be in the Women's Champions League Final this evening as her new side Lyon take on Wolfsburg. She's recently been given the BBC Women's Footballer of the Season award and, having scored the goal which took her new club past her old one (the only goal in the two legs against Man City), she'll be hoping to round off the season with the big one.

    https://www.theguardian.com/football...wolfsburg-kiev

    Lyon are old hands at this. It's their seventh final and third in a row - in fact they are going for a three-peat of titles. The 2016 win was in fact against today's opponents Wolfsburg, which the French side won in a shootout.

    So, yes, Wolfsburg are no mugs either. This is their fourth final, they've won it twice and the 2013 win was against... Lyon. Few would argue against these two being Europe's leading duo of women's clubs.

    The match is at 5pm UK time and the broadcast rights are here:
    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.u...d=2560103.html

    The BBC stream will be here I think:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/44113987
    Last edited by Kevin S; 24-05-2018, 07:48.

    #2
    Thanks for the reminder. Also, a nod of acknowledgment for the thread title. Will be interesting to see if ex-Frankfurter Dzsenifer Marozsan (Lyon) goes quiet again at the crucial stage, Cantona-style, or if she finally puts in a Big-Game Performance.
    Last edited by imp; 24-05-2018, 13:21. Reason: my mangled spelling of DM

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      #3
      Why 5PM/6PM kickoff?

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        #4
        Don't know, but it annoyingly collides with the Saarbrücken/1860 Regionalliga playoff game.

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          #5
          It's 7 pm in Kyiv, but I think the key factor is that it is being broadcast on the French equivalent of BBC1, and their "iconic" news programme is broadcast at 8 pm

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            #6
            It's on cable channel Sport1 in Germany, but the truth is that sadly very few fans give a fuck. The coverage of the women's game in kicker is derisory.

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              #7
              I was hoping that had improved since we left, but I guess not.

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                #8
                Couple of half chances for Lyon so far.

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                  #9
                  But Wolfsburg are getting some joy down the flanks.

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                    #10
                    I can't believe that it is five years since the 2013 final. The tempus, it fugits yet again.

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                      #11
                      Good to see that the attractive pricing (3 and 4 euro) have filled the ground

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                        #12
                        Ouch

                        Gunnarsdottir appears to have just torn a cruciate

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                          #13
                          Did you know that Bronze's middle name is literally Tough. Which matters right now as she and the Lyon 'keeper Bouhaddi have just absolutely flattened each other.

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                            #14
                            Bronze is fine and Bouhaddi is going to continue

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                              #15
                              Both are up, Bronze shaking off a left hook and body check. Living up to her name.

                              Everyone knows how this ends, right? It goes to penalties and Saki Kumagai scores the winner.

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                                #16
                                There doesn't appear to be a definitive replay, but that OL shot looked in to me

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                                  #17
                                  Goal and a red card for Wolfsburg. And now a equaliser for Lyon. But in between the first two, Lyon subbed off Kumagai.

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                                    #18
                                    2-1 Lyon. van der Sanden's pace created that one. She was the player brought on for Kumagai. Shows what I know.

                                    Alex Popp was complaining bitterly about the red card. Groundlessly.
                                    Last edited by Janik; 24-05-2018, 18:14.

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                                      #19
                                      3-1 Hegerberg. van der Sanden's pace again the catalyst. Makes you wonder why she didn't start.

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                                        #20
                                        That was an explosive first period of extra-time. Amandine Henry's goal was the best of the bunch, and also probably the most important given it was the equaliser.

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                                          #21
                                          Well, that's nice. Lyon bring on Camille Abily for a record-breaking 81st CL appearance, in her last opportunity as she is retiring at the end of the season. And three minutes later Abily scores the fourth, again set up by van der Sanden. Who, arguably, should get the player of the match award despite only coming on midway through the first period of extra-time.

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                                            #22
                                            What a turnaround. Lyon are still a class apart.

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                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by Janik View Post
                                              Alex Popp was complaining bitterly about the red card. Groundlessly.
                                              She was yelling at the AR with supreme conviction about how she'd played the ball. All discussions were off as soon as they showed the replay.

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                                                #24
                                                She may have brushed the ball on her way to her opponents ankle. But, as I'm sure you will appreciate, that doesn't actually matter. Even if she did make some fleeting contact, it was a reckless challenge that endangered her opponent and worthy of a booking.

                                                It took the ref a few seconds after producing the yellow to pull out the red. Almost like she didn't initially clock she had already booked Popp. One wonders if she would have found a justification to herself for not giving a yellow if she had realised before showing it that it was a second one.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Oh, and the absence of goalline technology for this match was typically shit, wasn't it? The Men's final has had it since 2016...

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