Gold or silver for Bronze: Wolfsburg v Lyon

[imp]

It shouldn't make a difference, but of course you're sometimes a tad more lenient if it's the second yellow, depending on the circumstances. Yep, no question it was absolutely the right call, and it tipped the game - from that moment on Wolfsburg were out of steam.

[Janik]

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...

[Janik]

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.

[imp]

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.

[Kevin S]

What a turnaround. Lyon are still a class apart.

[Janik]

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.

[Janik]

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.

[Janik]

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

[Janik]

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.

[Janik]

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

[ursus arctos]

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

[Janik]

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.

[ursus arctos]

Bronze is fine and Bouhaddi is going to continue

[Janik]

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.

[ursus arctos]

Ouch

Gunnarsdottir appears to have just torn a cruciate

[ursus arctos]

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

[Benjm]

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

[Kevin S]

But Wolfsburg are getting some joy down the flanks.

[Kevin S]

Couple of half chances for Lyon so far.

[ursus arctos]

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

[imp]

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.

[ursus arctos]

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

[imp]

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

[Ek weet nie]

Why 5PM/6PM kickoff?

[imp]

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.