The Polish Ewa Pajor -top scorer in this Champions League with nine goals- had opened the scoring in the 4th and Alexandra Popp (37) had extended the account for the Bundesliga runners-up.
At the start of the second halfPatri Guijarro (48, 50) balanced the markingr and the Swedish Fridolina Rolfö (70) ended up scoring the winning goal.
From Gothenburg in 2021 to Eindhoven in 2023. Two years after making history with the first women’s Champions League title for a Spanish club, Barcelona regained the crown they had lost last year by losing 3-1 against Lyon in a painful final in Turin.
Alexia Putellas, the double Ballon d’Or and star of Barça, started as a substitute and came into play in 88, thus playing his first minutes in this Champions League after missing almost the entire season due to a serious knee injury.
Barcelona closes a dream season like this, in which they also authoritatively conquered the Spanish League, for the fourth consecutive year. He only missed the Queen’s Cup due to an elimination in the offices after a case of improper alignment.
– Resurrection after the break –
At the start of the match, a jug of cold water fell on the illusion of Barça in the 4th minute, when the experienced English international Lucy Bronze, recently recovered after an arthroscopy in her right knee, lost a ball in the vicinity of her area against an attentive Ewa Pajor, who from the front of it sent a powerful shot that the goalkeeper Sandra Paños managed to touch but did not avoid the goal.
That early disadvantage put the terrain uphill for a Barça that touched the tie in minute 12, in a corner kick that Irene Paredes finished off, with everything in favor.
Despite lowering the revolutions, Barça kept looking for the goal of the tie to recover the illusion, with dangerous approaches.
But then came the second blow from the Germans, in the form of a ball hung in the Pajor area so that Alexandra Popp (37) will score with a header against Paños.
It was the fourth Champions League final in which Popp had managed to score, after 2014, 2016 and 2020, cWith what equaled the record of the Norwegian Ada Hegerberg, who achieved it with Lyon.
In the discount of the first part, Salma Paralluelo He put his leg in to finish alone in front of the goalkeeper Merle Frohms, which blocked in time.
Everything changed at the start of the second half, with a brace from Patri Guijarro, who was later chosen by UEFA the best of the final.
First in minute 48, with a combination with Caroline Graham Hansen that Guijarro culminated with a shot in the area to shorten the deficit. In minute 50 he returned equality to the scoreboard by signing the 2-2 header, to the center of Aitana Bonmatí.
Sandra Paños stopped the Wolfsburg attempts to react, especially against the attempts of Popp (67) and Pajor (68).
Barcelona then finished their comeback with the third from his private account, helped by an error by the rival defense. Mariona Caldentey failed to finish off a mess in the area, but the ball ended up short for the Swedish Fridolina Rolfö, who thus made it 3-2.
At the end of the game, Barcelona managed to control their advantage without major complications to close his fairy tale with a happy ending.
