30 August 2020

LIVE: Women’s Champions League final: Wolfsburg 1-3 Lyon - French side win fifth straight European crown

Wolfsburg and Lyon will clash tonight for the biggest prize in European football as fans are treated to the Women’s Champions League final.

Lyon are looking to win a record-extending fifth successive title but will have to come up against an old rival in the German champions if they are to do so.

Wolfsburg beat Lyon in the 2013 final, but since then have finished runners-up to the Division 1 Feminine league winners on two occasions - in 2016 and 2018.

If Wolfsburg win it will be the club’s third European crown, while a Lyon victory will see the French champions collect a seventh title.

It will bring the curtain down on an extended Champions League campaign, merely weeks before the domestic seasons get back underway.

Follow live updates of the game below as NewsChain provides coverage of the biggest club game in women’s football between two of  Europe’s finest.

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Wolfsburg 1-2 Lyon

75 min: Renard is urging her team for one last push her as she guides her side up the pitch.

It’s becoming a bit scrappy now and that’s exactly what Lyon will want at this stage.

Wolfsburg 1-2 Lyon

72 min: Goessling stands over a free-kick mid-way inside the Lyon half.

She whips a good ball in but Renard is there once again to climb and nod clear. Has she lost an aerial ball tonight?

Wolfsburg 1-2 Lyon

70 min: Lyon are managing this game well now and have really dropped the pace off to the point where Wolfsburg are struggling to make any inroads.

You sense there is still another twist in this game though.

Wolfsburg 1-2 Lyon

67 min: Wolfsburg are geting their foot on the ball and knocking it around casually as they look for a way through.

Popp is clipped through and tries to square it for Pajor in the middle but Renard is in the way.

The midfielder was offside when the ball was played and the game is brought back.

Wolfsburg 1-2 Lyon

64 min: The tempo has just tapered off a little as Wolfsburg get ready for a huge last 20 minutes and Lyon look to take the sting out of the Germans momentum.

Wolfsburg 1-2 Lyon

61 min: There’s a spring in the step of Wolfsburg now as they win the game back from kick-off and storm forward again.

The final ball goes begging but all of a sudden this final has come to life.

Wolfsburg 1-2 Lyon

58 min: GOAL! Oh now we have a game on!

Out of nothing Wolfsburg are right back in the game. The ball is fizzed in from the left-hand side and when Pajor’s effort is thwarted, Popp is there to convert from just two yards out as she heads home.

What a half an hour we have in store!

Wolfsburg 0-2 Lyon

56 min: Bouhaddi is out smartly to thwart Pajor as the belief appears to be seeping out of Wolfsburg here.

Wolfsburg 0-2 Lyon

53 min: Wolfsburg with a little sustained period of possession but it comes to nothing. The organisation of Lyon’s defence is just too much for the Germans.

A ball in from Janssen was excellent but Harder can’t bring it down and it’s cleared once more.

Wolfsburg 0-2 Lyon

50 min: Cascarino dribbles through again and finds Le Sommer who can’t keep her shot down. The French winger really is something special.

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