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 0-1 Lyon

31 min: Rolfo does brilliantly well to skip past Bronze and put a ball into the box but it’s cut out by Renard.

Lyon look so accomplished at the back. An incredibly well-shaped defensive unit.

Wolfsburg 0-1 Lyon

28 min: The Wolfsburg defenders were too slow to react after first save from Abt. Le Sommer was razor sharp but she shouldn’t have been allowed a second bite of the cherry.

Be interesting to see how Wolfsburg respond here. They have a corner but Popp fires over the top.

Wolfsburg 0-1 Lyon

25 min: GOAL! Le Sommer is found inside the penalty area and when her first shot is saved by the feet of Abt it bounces back to the Lyon striker who converts at the second time of asking.

It’s been coming!

Wolfsburg 0-0 Lyon

22 min: Just as I say that Renard is outpaced by Harder and when she finds Popp in the middle it’s a swing and a miss from the midfielder. Wasteful.

Wolfsburg 0-0 Lyon

21 min: Renard is just so dominant in the air. A ball is swung in from the left and the Lyon centre-back climbs comfortably highest to thump it away.

She will be missed for sure.

Wolfsburg 0-0 Lyon

18 min: CHANCE! Lyon break quickly and Cascarino weaves in and out of Janssen before forcing a smart save from Apt.

Lyon are opening the Germans up with relative ease here.

Wolfsburg 0-0 Lyon

17 min: Gunnarsdottir plays a long diagonal towards Le Sommer. Apt comes to collect but then spills it and it’s nearly pounced on but it’s quickly cleared.

Wolfsburg 0-0 Lyon

15 min: YELLOW! Wolfsburg’s Huth goes in the book for a nasty challenge on Marozsan. That was a high challenge on the calf. Poor.

Wolfsburg 0-0 Lyon

14 min: Rolfo whips in a dangerous cross but it’s plucked out of the air by Bouhaddi. Good keeping that.

Wolfsburg 0-0 Lyon

11 min: Bronze chopped down again on the right-hand side. That might be the answer to controlling her tonight…

The free-kick comes in and Renard is there again but can’t control it and heads over.

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