Arsenal UEFA Champions League is the best in the world, but it was not enough for Barcelona in Lisbon

This was Arsenal’s moment, but Al Ain was attracted to the player in the Barcelona shirt was supposed to be this day. Aitana Bonmati is the outstanding performance of the women’s game, but this time the Champions League Cup had been exposed to it.

She was crying on the final whistle, shattered, head in his hands, was beaten. Bonmati was strengthened by Lea Williamson, but several minutes passed before any of her teammates dared to approach her. This was very personal sadness in a very public environment.

When it seemed to be an era, Bonmati was about the penalty box that fought Barcelona to penetrate for a previous 90 -minute and more. A single character, the last of which was to collect the medal and the other still live with the celebration of Arsenal.

While the other players gathered together or looked away, Bonmati forced itself to watch it, as if this was atonement. I repeated this when greeting the fans as well. It lasted for more than half an hour. Perhaps these things are cut differently to the greats.

There was a hug with her mother and is still time to discuss a moving tactical discussion with Barcelona coach Mark Fevis. Arsenal was offered the cup, but Bonmayi was still being treated, and she was still trying to calculate how this game had not bent on its will.

Foreign feeling for a foreigner must be from the player. Bonmati won three of the previous four Champions League finals with Barcelona, the match player in two of them. A winner of a landslide in the last two D’Or balloon, still a surprise.

This child from La Masia, who wears the 14th shirt in honoring Johan Cruyff, calculates Kafi Hernandez among many fans. Pep Guardiola said that she was the player who reminded him of Andres Iniesta – and that the comparison is a courtesy for Inasta.

In Lisbon, the great and good game gathered to show Europe, his fellow players spoke in preliminary terms about its genius. They are undoubtedly a genius. Technology is beyond a comparison. Bonamai slides. But there is more here.

Speaking to Tatiana Pinto of Atletico Madrid, winner of 115 Portugal capsules, she is trying to explain. “This is its intelligence and the extent of the speed of transition to space.” Sky Sports. “It is how it is available to receive the ball.” Brazilian legend Tamrez compatible.

“Yes, I think it is its ongoing movement,” says Tamrez Sky Sports. “It is very difficult for a person who has to mark her to arrest her because she is always thinking before the game and she is always moving towards the right space all the time.”

“She has this magic”

Chat with Arsenal, favorite Anita Asanti, has proven particularly bright. ASANTE is a coach now and experiences the collapse of what makes Bonmati very special. You say to Sky Sports.

“We often do not reformulate the game in the same way in its possession. Players work with the same amount of climbing to the ball, staying on the ball, or either we are an option or create space for others. For me, this is hard work. To do this constantly, this is a very hard work.

“Bonmati is always thinking about how to challenge the decision -making of the opposition player. What are the spaces that I pull to this player? You may not even participate in the first stage but see the game in front of others. This is its intelligence in the game.

“And when she receives the ball, she always examines, so when she adds her technical skills, she is able to receive under pressure and evade this pressure easily. It’s a huge technical skill to be able to do this and rest in doing so.

“To be comfortable enough to get out of the troubles, and to stand up to it, but get out of it, she has this spring. This type of spring is to get away from people in narrow spaces, to attract a player towards the ball and then spin away. This is what she has. She has this magic.”

Rest under their best

However, against Arsenal’s vibrant side, which defended its occurrence and attacked the spaces behind the Barcelona defense, none of them have been proven enough. Bonmati holds its principles, trusted on the team, but there was always Arsenal on the way.

They prevented three of its shots, while the many opportunities that they created directly to others were lost. Many of its factors designed on the models that have been rescued or dispelled. Bonmati is a team player. She needed her team to play better than this.

Alexia Potlas was much lower than its best. In 65 minutes, Bonmati showed the ball but Caroline Graham Hansen chose a shot from a ridiculous angle. In 82, Bonmati was smartly washed away in the Ona Batlle track but it made the chaos of the cross.

Sometimes a scalpel is not effective as sliding marble. Besides, Beth Meed was the one who presented a moment of accuracy in the game at the other end, with this reverse pass to Steina Blackstinius that ends Barcelona and Bonmati Quartet.

At the age of twenty -seven, there will be other moments for the best player in the world to reaffirm her grip on the women’s game. Copa De La Reina is just two weeks. Spain is the favorite to win the Euro 2025 this summer and adds that award to the World Cup that won in 2023.

In this context, it may be a bit strange to focus on its escape once instead of countless stories among the weak of Arsenal. But there was something convincing about watching this emotional account of the elite athlete.

This is the magic of football. She was the best in the game in the game and is still the best in the world in the end. But with Arsenal’s celebration, Aitana Bonmay, who feels the weight of responsibility that comes with her greatness, can only predict.