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Soccer-Barcelona beat PSG to reach

Women's Champions League final
Dutch winger Lieke Martens struck twice in the first half as Barcelona beat Paris St
Germain 2-1 in the second leg of their Women's Champions League semi-final to go
through with a 3-2 aggregate victory.

Soccer Football - Women's Champions League - Semi Final Second Leg - FC Barcelona v Paris St Germain -
Estadi Johan Cruyff, Barcelona, Spain - May 2, 2021 Barcelona's Marta Torrejon and Leila Ouahabi celebrate
winning after the match REUTERS/Albert Gea

BARCELONA: Dutch winger Lieke Martens struck twice in the first half as Barcelona
beat Paris St Germain 2-1 in the second leg of their Women's Champions League
semi-final to go through with a 3-2 aggregate victory.

    Having secured a 1-1 draw in Paris, Barcelona, who will face either Chelsea or
Bayern Munich in the final, opened the scoring through Martens in the eighth
minute when she cut in from the left and curled a stunning strike into the far corner.

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She made it 2-0 in the 31st minute when she rifled home Caroline Graham Hansen's
pass from close range. 

    Marie-Antoinette Katoto threw PSG a lifeline three minutes later, reacting

quickest as the ball pinged around the Barca box to poke it home and leave her side
chasing a second away goal. 

    However, it was Barcelona that went closest to scoring again and they could have
killed the game off in the 69th minute when Jennifer Hermoso, who scored in the
first leg, hit the post and Marta Torrejon looped a header onto the crossbar a minute
later. 
     With PSG struggling to create goal-scoring chances, a stoppage-time free kick by
Sara Dabritz was wasted when Irene Paredes was adjudged to be offside and beaten

02 May 2021 08:30PM 2019 finalists Barcelona held on comfortably for the win. 

    The final takes place in the Swedish city

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