The Arsenal faces the headlines of Barcelona in Lisbon on Saturday in the final of the women’s champions League.
Here, the PA news agency analyzes some conversation points in the Jose Avalade Stadium clash.
The gunners return after 18 years
Arsenal is making its second appearance in the final, 18 years after winning the competition when it was known as the UEFA Women’s Cup.
As part of a quadruple in 2007, Vic Akers gunners defeated the Swedish team Umea 1-0 on two legs, Alex Scott scored the only goal at the end of the first.
It is still the only time an English team has leg winners, the only one again that it has reached the final was when Chelsea did it in 2021, suffering a 4-0 defeat against Barcelona.
Success of the triumphs
The Arsenal has returned to the final as part of a change of impression this season with Renee Slegers, who took over, initially in a basic interim and then permanently, after Chief Jonas Eidevall resigned in October.
Eidevall had a 5-2 defeat at the Bayern Munich in the first of the team’s group’s matches. They would end them with a 3-2 victory behind the Germans and the upper part of the pool, and subsequently produced second-leg fights to overcome Real Madrid in the quarterfinals and Lyon in the semifinals, the liter is impressive in France.
Caldent meeting
Saturday’s contest is scheduled to see a star of the Arsenal season against its former club in Mariona Caldentey.
The International of Spain, recently appointed player of the year of the female Super League of the year and the scorer of seven goals in the European campaign, joined last summer after 10 years with Barça, who won the titles of the Time Champions League. Including.
Arsenal also has the former defender of Barça Laia Codina in her ranks.
Formidable Barça
Barça, whose team presents characters such as the winners of Double Ballon d’Or Aitana Bonmati and Alexia Putellas, are directed to their sixth final and fifth consecutive, after having won the last two to add to their inaugural success in 202 staging posts, while and 4-0.
This season, Pereu’s team opened its champions League campaign with a 2-0 defeat at Manchester City, but they have their leg ruthless since then, hitting Wolfsburg 10-2 and Chelsea 8-2 together in the last eight and semifinal.
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Connections at 07
When Arsenal triumphed against Umea in 2007, Slegers was a teenager at the end of a letter spell with the Club Academy, while his current Kelly Smith assistant was a prolific front of the gunners.
Smith, who scored 125 goals in 144 appearances in three spells as a Arsenal player, was key in the quadruple and scored twice in the European semifinal against Brondby, but had to stay out of the final due to the suspension.
