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BBC News
24-05-2025
- Sport
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Women's Champions League final: Arsenal opener against Barcelona ruled out by VAR
Update: Date: 17:26 BST Title: Get Involved Content: #bbcfootball, WhatsApp on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) This game has the men's FA Cup final feel about it. Barca (Man City) attacking/controlling the game, Arsenal (Palace) could nick this on the counter. Nemo Update: Date: 25 mins Title: 'Barca would've been a little worried' Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Emma SandersBBC Sport women's football news reporter at Estadio Jose Alvalade A huge moment for Arsenal. They have definitely caused Barcelona problems and rattled them a little bit. Frida Maanum did look offside straight away but Barca would have been a little worried. Update: Date: 17:25 BST Title: 'Warning sign for Barcelona' Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Izzy ChristiansenFormer England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live at Estadio Jose Alvalade It is really good offensive final third play from Arsenal. Apart from the offside. A brilliant run, but Frida Maanum failed to time it later. That is a massive warning sign for Barcelona. They have not been at the races. Update: Date: 24 mins Title: Post Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Jen BeattieFormer Arsenal defender on TNT Sports To the naked eye, I thought she might've been offside. It just goes to show the uncertainly those runs in behind can cause. Update: Date: 23 mins Title: DISALLOWED GOAL - Arsenal Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Arsenal think they have taken the lead when Frida Maanum gets free on the right wing and her low cross is diverted into her own net by Barcelona defender Irene Paredes. But Paredes is the most relieved person in Lisbon as an offside check shows Maanum had gone too early when collecting the ball. A let off for Barcelona. Update: Date: 17:19 BST Title: Get Involved Content: #bbcfootball, WhatsApp on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) Arsenal doing everything so far that Chelsea didn't do. They have to take their chances though. Dave, London Update: Date: 19 mins Title: 'Got to pick the moments to be aggressive' Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Izzy ChristiansenFormer England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live at Estadio Jose Alvalade Arsenal at their best are when they're aggressive. With the heat you have got to pick the moments to be aggressive. You cannot go at 70% you have got to go at 100%. That's where Arsenal have got to manage the game. Update: Date: 18 mins Title: Post Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona A dangerous corner is swung into the Arsenal box from the right by Mapi Leon and goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar starts to come for the ball but doesn't get there, and is relieved to see team-mate Alessia Russo make a vital clearing header. Update: Date: 17:15 BST Title: Post Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Emma SandersBBC Sport women's football news reporter at Estadio Jose Alvalade Aitana Bonmati was annoyed with herself and was gesturing she should have curled it into the top corner instead. Barcelona haven't really controlled the game yet which they are not used to. Update: Date: 16 mins Title: 'Beautiful play from Barcelona' Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Izzy ChristiansenFormer England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live at Estadio Jose Alvalade Again, beautiful play from Barcelona. The chop from Aitana Bonmati, she shifts it onto her left foot. The covering defender, Chloe Kelly sliding across to block it. Update: Date: 17:14 BST Title: 'More of that' Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Jen BeattieFormer Arsenal defender on TNT Sports On the Foord chance... Foord is really unlucky not to get that goalward. What a ball, what a run, more of that from Arsenal. That's a huge confidence boost, knowing they can threaten the backline of Barcelona. Update: Date: 15 mins Title: Post Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Aitana Bonmati is proving a real handful for the Arsenal defence. She jinks inside her marker inside the penalty area, but Chloe Kelly has tracked back well and is able to get a vital block in, with the ball tamely looping up into the hands of Daphne van Domselaar. Update: Date: 14 mins Title: Post Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Better from Arsenal. Kim Little plays an angled pass to the back post and Caitlin Foord has space to either head at goal or nod it across for a team-mate, but in the end she does neither with the header drifting harmlessly wide. That was a chance. Update: Date: 13 mins Title: Post Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Emma SandersBBC Sport women's football news reporter at Estadio Jose Alvalade Barcelona fans have just started chanting Claudia Pina's name after Arsenal supporters booed her going down following a challenge from Chloe Kelly. It gives the defending champions a bit of a boost and Mariona Caldentey - of all people - was almost robbed in the box twice. Update: Date: 12 mins Title: 'You can't get away with it' Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Jen BeattieFormer Arsenal defender on TNT Sports Square balls across the box - you can't get away with it - especially not against this team. Update: Date: 11 mins Title: 'Bizarre from Arsenal' Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Izzy ChristiansenFormer England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live at Estadio Jose Alvalade Bizarre from Arsenal at the back. They tried to clear the ball three times. They're trying to pass it out of their box. That's how you don't play against Barcelona. Update: Date: 10 mins Title: Post Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Nerves in the Arsenal defence. They play a square pass inside their own penalty area and nearly get punished. Mariona Caldentey then loses the ball 18 yards out, but Arsenal somehow manage to smuggle the ball clear. Update: Date: 17:09 BST Title: Get Involved Content: #bbcfootball, WhatsApp on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) Arsenal haven't conceded yet which is better than Chelsea in 2021 Matt Update: Date: 9 mins Title: Post Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Panic in the Arsenal defence as goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar has to come out of her penalty area and try to clear her lines. The clearance is unconvincing, but luckily for Arsenal it doesn't land at a red and blue shirt. Update: Date: 8 mins Title: 'Overloading the wide area' Content: Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Izzy ChristiansenFormer England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live at Estadio Jose Alvalade I have already identified an issue with Arsenal. Out of possession Barcelona are overloading the wide area. That's how Barcelona are escaping Arsenal's press.
BBC News
23-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Women's Champions League final build-up: Arsenal & Barcelona news conferences
Update: Date: 18:04 BST Title: Champions League trophy stolen Content: Arsenal v Barcelona (Sat, 17:00 BST) Emma SandersBBC Sport women's football news reporter at Estádio José Alvalade We've just heard about a crazy story... On Saturday, Sporting were crowned Portuguese champions after beating Vitoria Guimaraes 2-0 in the Primeira Liga. They were playing at the Estádio José Alvalade - where we are now for the press conferences - and fans celebrated heavily. In their excitement, they broke through to a trophy cabinet area where they stole what they believed to be the newly-won Portuguese title. Instead, they went home with the Women's Champions League trophy, that was brought here in preparation for tomorrow's final. Realising what they had done, the Sporting fans rang up to apologise and brought the trophy back! Update: Date: 18:02 BST Title: Three in a row? Content: Arsenal v Barcelona (Sat, 17:00 BST) Barcelona are looking to cement their legacy and extend their dominance in Europe. They are competing in a sixth Champions League final in total and their fifth in a row as they bid to become only the second team to lift the trophy three years in a row. Arsenal, on the other hand, have reached just their second Champions League final. No English side has won the competition since the Gunners lifted the trophy in their first final. Can they make it two wins from two? Update: Date: 17:59 BST Title: Olá! Content: Arsenal v Barcelona (Sat, 17:00 BST) This time tomorrow the Women's Champions League final be under way in Lisbon. Will it be a third successive European crown for Barcelona, or a first in 18 years for Arsenal? There's plenty to get stuck into before Saturday's showpiece event so let's get to it.
