UWCL final: Alexia Putellas shows she's 'queen of Barcelona' - ESPN

Lucy Bronze has said Alexia Putellas showed why she is the «queen of Barcelona» after the two-time Ballon d'Or winner came off the bench to score the second goal in Barcelona's 2-0 Champions League final win over Lyon on Saturday.

Putellas fired home in stoppage time after Aitana Bonmatí had opened the scoring earlier in the second half as Barça sealed back-to-back Champions League trophies, winning the competition for a third time in four years.

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«Alexia is the captain of the team and she's the queen of Barcelona for a reason,» England defender Bronze told DAZN after the game.

«She's always so confident in the team and she showed today why she is a back-to-back Ballon d'Or winner.

»She's got the quality to do that in the last minute of the Champions League final when we were up against it at the end and it just sealed the win for us. It was amazing."

Barça — who boasted the lion's share of the 50,827 attendance at San Mamés in Bilbao, which was a record for a Women's Champions League final — had never beaten French champions Lyon in four previous attempts.

Two of those defeats came in Champions League finals, in 2019 and 2022, and there was a feeling they needed to beat the eight-time European champions to really establish themselves as one of the best teams ever.

«We knew that's what we needed to be a club that really made history,» Bronze said.

«It's hard to win it once, but to do it back-to-back, Lyon showed how difficult it is and this team has finally done that. I think we go down in history as one of the best teams in Europe.»

Success in Europe follows a domestic treble — Liga F, the Copa de la Reina and the Spanish Supercopa — as Barça win the quadruple for the