The pain of defeat from last season’s Women’s Champions League final has lingered at Barcelona
After a perfect domestic season with 30 wins from 30 games and a Champions League campaign in which the team barely broke a sweat, Barcelona arrived in Turin last year as the overwhelming favorite to lift the trophy for a second straight season. Even faced with a resurgent Lyon, the record eight-time Champions League winner, Barcelona was expected to come out on top. To say, then, that a 3-0 deficit after just half an hour was a surprise would be something of an understatement.
“Wanting to improve certain things in the team and I think that’s the mentality of a top team, is wanting to fix things for a final that we weren’t even in yet because we had that belief and that mentality that we would make the final, that we would get there and that when we do get there, we know how to right the wrongs of previous experiences. “I think that’s something similar to the feeling that I had when I played for Lyon.
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