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Barcelona 4-0 Lyon: Pajor and Paralluelo doubles secure Champions League glory

20h19 CEST

23/05/2026

Barcelona won the Women's Champions League for the fourth time in their history after they comfortably beat eight-time winners Lyon 4-0 at Ullevaal Stadion. 

Ewa Pajor's second-half brace made the difference for the Blaugrana, before Salma Paralluelo's late double made sure of victory for Pere Romeu's side on Saturday. 

It was an end-to-end start as Alexia Putellas fired wide from Caroline Graham Hansen's cutback before Wendie Renard forced a brilliant save from Cata Coll at the other, with Lindsey Heaps' goal from the rebound ruled out for offside.

Pajor should have done better when Christiane Endler was caught in no-man's land from Putellas' long ball, but the striker's lobbed effort went wide of the right post, while Coll was called into action again to deny Selma Bacha's free-kick just before the break.

Barca then broke the deadlock in the 55th minute as Pajor fired into the bottom-left corner after being picked out by Patri Guijarro's pinpoint pass, and Lyon struggled to create a clear-cut chance in response.

And the trophy was all but sealed by the 70th minute when Paralluelo's cutback was turned in from close range by Pajor, though Tabitha Chawinga did miss a brilliant one-on-one opportunity to halve the deficit.

Paralluelo removed any doubt in the final minute of normal time as she found the top-right corner from outside the box, before adding a fourth in stoppage time after Pajor unselfishly squared the ball to the winger on the counter.

Data Debrief: Pajor's scoring exploits deliver Champions League glory

Despite a nervy start to the final, Barca's inevitable quality came to the fore as they produced 2.11 expected goals (xG) from 12 shots to Lyon's 1.42 from 14 attempts, and Pajor was the star of the show.

Pajor finishes as this season's Women's Champions League top scorer with 11 goals, while she is the first player to net in both legs of the quarter-finals, both legs of the semi-finals and in the final in the same edition since the reformatting of the competition to a one-legged final in 2009-10.

The 29-year-old is also the first player to score 10+ non-penalty goals in a single season since Wolfsburg's Tabea Sellner in 2021-22, while Barca are the first team to beat Lyon twice in the competition's final (also in 2024).

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