Lyon win women’s Champions League

Kiev, May 25: A stunning burst of goals in extra time allowed Lyon to come from behind and beat Wolfsburg 4- 1 as the French side made history by winning a third straight women’s Champions League title on Thursday.

Amandine Henry, Eugenie Le Sommer and Ada Hegerberg all scored in a crazy first period of extra time to stun Wolfsburg, and substitute Camille Abily later made sure of the victory.

The German champions had taken a 93rd- minute lead courtesy of their Danish star Pernille Harder, only for influential midfielder Alexandra Popp to be sent off almost immediately after.

Lyon are the first side ever to lift the women’s trophy three years running, and also set a new record by winning the tournament for the fifth time overall.

All of those titles have come since 2011, and the dominant side in the European game overtake Frankfurt’s record of four titles.

It has already been a glorious first season at the helm for coach Reynald Pedros, with Lyon having won a 12th consecutive French league crown — they can still make it a treble with the French Cup final to come against Paris Saint- Germain.

The extra- time drama came after a tense 90 minutes in the third final confrontation between these two sides in six seasons.

In 2013, Wolfsburg triumphed 1- 0 in London for their first of back- to- back Champions League titles. Lyon gained their revenge in 2016, emerging victorious in a penalty shoot- out.

This encounter was watched by a crowd of more than 14,000 in the leafy setting of Kiev’s Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, just 48 hours before Real Madrid and Liverpool clash in the men’s final across the Ukrainian capital. — AFP