Lyon v Barcelona: Women’s Champions League final – live!

• Women’s Champions League final from Budapest, 5pm BST kick-off
• Lyon focused on fourth Champions League title in a row
• And feel free to email Alex or tweet him @A_Hess

4.12pm BST

Lyon: Bouhaddi, Bronze, Renard, Henry, Majri, Le Sommer, Marozsan, Van de Sanden, Hegerberg, Fischlock, Mbock. Subs: Weiss, Bacha, Kumagai, Cascarino, Buchanan, Jaimes, Simon.

Barcelona: Panos, Maria Leon, Losada, T Marta, Mariona, Alexia, Aitana, Leila, Duggan, A Pereira, Martens. Subs: Gemma, Van der Gragt, Melanie, Andressa Alves, Patri, Oshoala, Andonova.

3.49pm BST

There’s dominance, and there’s Dominance. And in the case of Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, we’re very much in the realm of the latter. Indeed, we have been for some time. Some basics facts: 13 straight domestic league titles, 10 domestic cup wins since 2003 and – get this – two league defeats in nine seasons. A Champions League victory in Budapest tonight would be their fourth in a row, and their sixth in nine years. Reynald Pedros’ team are reaching a level of supremacy not just unparalleled in women’s football, nor even in all football – but in all top-level sport, anywhere, any time.

Barcelona, then, have their work cut out. Their hunger for a trophy will be deep after finishing second in their domestic league for a fourth season on the trot. Surprisingly, this is their first appearance in the Champions League final. Given that their task tonight is to thwart the unthwartable, it’s in their favour that they have a hell of a defence.

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