UEFA Women’s Champions League: Barcelona Femení thump El Clásico rivals to set up semis with Bayern

Barcelona Femení completed a commanding 6-0 victory over Real Madrid at a sold-out Camp Nou on Tuesday, sealing a 12-2 aggregate triumph and a place in the UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-finals against FC Bayern Frauen. The emphatic win marked the third time in nine days that Pere Romeu’s side have defeated their Liga F neighbours, taking their combined tally to 15 goals across the encounters.

The result books Barcelona an eighth consecutive semi-final berth and keeps alive their quest for a sixth straight final appearance. The Catalan giants’ only previous knockout-stage meeting with Bayern came at this same stage in 2018-19, when they progressed 2-0 on aggregate to begin their current run of title pushes.

Bayern arrive at the last-four showdown in mixed European form. While the Frauen-Bundesliga leaders have lost only once all season, that defeat was a bruising 7-1 reverse at Johan Cruyff Stadium in the opening round of the competition’s new league phase.

Elsewhere, VfL Wolfsburg and Olympique Lyonnais are set to decide the remaining semi-final slot later today. Wolfsburg carry a 1-0 lead into the second leg in France after Lineth Beerensteyn’s winner in the first leg, with the victors scheduled to face reigning champions Arsenal in the next round.