Hegerberg stars as Lyon crush Barcelona to win Women’s Champions League http://bit.ly/2VxRb1d Suzanne Wrack at Ferencváros Stadion • Final: Lyon 4-1 Barcelona • Norwegian Ada Hegerberg hits a hat-trick in the first half-hour People will bemoan the gulf in class. This was supposed to be competitive football at the top level. But Lyon’s one-sided mauling of Barcelona is not something to be criticised, and instead should be celebrated as a testament to investment, to equality. The long-term project of the club president, Jean-Michel Aulas, is paying dividends and then some. An emotional early opener from the Budapest-born Dzsenifer Marozsán, who was warmly cheers by the crowd on announcement in the starting XI, followed by a stunning 17-minute hat-trick from Ada Hegerberg put the French champions in the driving seat by the half-hour mark. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J May 18, 2019 at 08:39PM

• Final: Lyon 4-1 Barcelona
• Norwegian Ada Hegerberg hits a hat-trick in the first half-hour

People will bemoan the gulf in class. This was supposed to be competitive football at the top level. But Lyon’s one-sided mauling of Barcelona is not something to be criticised, and instead should be celebrated as a testament to investment, to equality. The long-term project of the club president, Jean-Michel Aulas, is paying dividends and then some.

An emotional early opener from the Budapest-born Dzsenifer Marozsán, who was warmly cheers by the crowd on announcement in the starting XI, followed by a stunning 17-minute hat-trick from Ada Hegerberg put the French champions in the driving seat by the half-hour mark.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2VxRb1d