Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmatí was left in disbelief and wishing she could start the game again after the Spanish champions lost 1-0 to Arsenal in Saturday's Champions League final.

Barcelona forward Ansu Fati is in talks to join French side Monaco next season, various sources have confirmed to ESPN.

Gunners’ victory was built on a multi-layered courage that respected but was not overawed by Barcelona or by fatalism There is always a little more time than you think. A red number 7 blinks across the pitch from the fourth official’s board. Seven minutes of injury time: it’s a lot. Against Barcelona, it’s an age. Against this Barcelona, in this heat, in this game, it may as well be all of eternity. But you push through. You pace yourself. Beth Mead goes down under a challenge; there’s 30 seconds right there. Kim Little rolls the ball up the left touchline to no one: eight seconds. Daphne van Domselaar hesitates over a free-kick, squeezing out those seconds like drops from a towel. You push through because whatever happens in these seven minutes, however those minutes make you suffer, seven minutes is still less than 18 years. Continue reading...

Arsenal are shock winners of the UEFA Women's Champions League, the first time the trophy went to a club other than Barcelona or Lyon in a decade.

Arsenal forward Stina Blackstenius struck a late winner as the London team shocked holders Barcelona on Saturday to claim their second Women's Champions League title.

Euphoria. Complete and utter euphoria. Stina Blackstenius’s second-half goal stunned the three-time European champions Barcelona to deliver Arsenal’s second European title. On the final whistle it was red and white pandemonium as stunned Gunners seemed to not know what to do with themselves. Arsenal got as close as they could to bottling history and feeding it to the players in the buildup: there was a lunch with the 2007 European champions, notes from fans, staff and the community were pinned to a wall for them to peruse before their flight, and emotion-packed videos of who they are, where they have been and the shoulders they stand on set the tone. Continue reading...