Tweet comes back to haunt Sam Kerr in Champions League final thrashing

Aussie Sam Kerr’s incredible hot streak is over after her Chelsea team were thrashed 4-0 in the women’s Champions League final on Monday morning (AEST).

The 27-year-old was hooked from the field with 20 minutes to play as Chelsea was blown off the park by an unstoppable Barcelona team.

The Spanish club’s victory on Monday means they are the first Spanish team to win the women’s Champions League. The club is also the first ever to win men’s and women’s Champions League finals.

Kerr and her star teammates were locked up by the Barcelona defence on a night where nothing went right for the English Super League champions. Kerr also squandered a number of opportunities in the second half.

The bitter defeat comes after Kerr’s heroics had helped Chelsea to the Super League title with a 5-0 thrashing of Reading last week.

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Chelsea’s team looks sad after the end of the UEFA Women’s Champions League final.Source:AFP

Kerr’s stocks have risen dramatically on the world stage in recent weeks after she secured the Super League Golden Boot – scoring 21 goals in the campaign.

But that seemed a long time ago on Monday after she was forced to watch on as Barcelona ran rampant in the final, held in Gothenburg, Sweden.

To make things worse, it was a case of karma served cold for the Australian after fans uncovered a tweet of hers from two years ago in which she appeared to mock Barcelona for being thumped in the 2019 Champions League final 4-1 by French club Lyon.

The tweet has not aged well.

Sam Kerr’s old tweet.Source:Twitter

It was a very different Barcelona on Monday.

The La Liga champions scored all four goals inside 36 minutes as a Melanie Leupolz own goal, Alexia Putellas’s penalty and simple finishes from Aitana Bonmati and Caroline Graham Hansen killed the game as a contest.

Barca have romped to the Spanish title with a 100 per cent record after 26 games in La Liga, boasting a 123 goal difference.

Chelsea had been on course for a quadruple, but even the big-spending English champions were no match for the Catalans’ speed of thought and movement.

The Blues were rocked after just 33 seconds when after Lieke Martens’s shot came back off the crossbar, Fran Kirby’s attempted clearance looped into her own net off the unlucky Leupolz.

Champions.Source:Getty Images

Chelsea had the chance to hit back immediately as Pernille Harder, who cost a world record transfer fee when she arrived in London from Wolfsburg in September, fired over from close range.

Jenni Hermoso pulled another big chance wide for Barca before Harder was denied again by a last-ditch tackle in an end-to-end start.

But Chelsea were shell-shocked once Hermoso went down under Leupolz’s challenge and Putellas confidently slotted home the spot-kick.

A brilliant team move made it 3-0 as Martens fed Hermoso, who drilled a pass into the path of Bonmati and she beat Ann-Katrin Berger from close range.

Martens was toying with Chelsea right-back Niamh Charles and the Dutch international laid the fourth on a plate for Hansen to tap into an empty net.

Two years ago it was Barca who found themselves 4-0 down after just 30 minutes against a dominant Lyon side.

The French giants had won this competition for the past five seasons, but their reign was ended by Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals, who were then eliminated by Barcelona in the last four.

Chelsea will be hoping to show similar resilience to come back and win the competition for the first time as they missed out on becoming the first English side to become European champions since Arsenal in 2007.

— with AFP

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