Chelsea suffered a chastening defeat as the holders Barcelona cruised through to their fifth consecutive Women’s Champions League final with an 8-2 aggregate victory that demonstrated a sizeable gulf in quality between the two teams.
The result emphatically ended Chelsea’s hopes of lifting a quadruple of major trophies this season, at the start of week when they could be crowned Women’s Super League champions, and kept this peerless Barcelona team on course to lift their third straight European title.
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