Give Patri Guijarro her flowers! Winners and losers as Barcelona star proves her world-class qualities in incredible Women's Champions League comeback against Wolfsburg

Rolfo’s time at Wolfsburg was a difficult one. She endured so much injury woe that she has previously described it as like a "war" against them, and she also lost a Champions League final. But she has been able to stay fit and healthy at Barca and she has flourished as a result, even in a new left-back role.

One of the best players in the women’s game all season, to score the winning goal on a huge stage was a massively well-deserved moment for an incredibly talented player – one that can now finally call herself a champion of Europe.

Sadly, while there is always a hero in these games, there is so often a player whose contribution is not one they will want to remember. This was the biggest game of Wilms’ club career and, for a player who grew up not too far from Eindhoven, it could’ve been a really special one. Instead, it was her mistake that led to Barca’s winning goal and completed Wolfsburg’s almighty collapse.

Still only 22 years old, she will hopefully get another shot at lifting Europe’s most coveted trophy and get to exorcise the demons of this day. But this one will hurt her for a little while.

When Alexia Putellas was asked about Guijarro in Friday’s pre-match press conferences, she couldn’t sing her praises highly enough. “The qualities she has as a player, sometimes they go unnoticed,” she said. “The job she does may not be seen as much but when you’re near her and you know her, you know how important she is.”

On Saturday, she was the Player of the Match and the player who turned things around for Barca – albeit in a very different way to how she usually influences games, by scoring goals! The midfielder doesn’t often get the headlines so for her to do so after this moment was very well earned.

Stroot had an excellent game plan for his Wolfsburg team. They pressed well, they caused Barca all sorts of problems and they went in at the break 2-0 up. It was executed to perfection. The problem was that it was only done like so for 45 minutes.

There was little he could do from the dugout as he watched his players fail to track Guijarro twice and lose their lead. He couldn’t do anything about the defensive chaos for the third, either.

However, questions could be asked of his substitutes. Tabea Wassmuth, last season’s second highest goalscorer in this competition, and Jule Brand, the young star that changed the game for Wolfsburg as they defeated Arsenal in the semis, were left on the bench as the German side succumbed to defeat. It was certainly puzzling.

Pajor didn’t finish on the winning side on Saturday, but she played absolutely brilliantly in that first half in particular, scoring a superb goal and providing an equally excellent assist for Popp’s header, too.

The Poland international doesn’t get many plaudits. Whether that’s because of the lack of visibility of the German league, the fact Poland’s women’s team has never played at a major tournament or something else entirely, to turn up on a stage like this as she did might finally see that change.

Her all-round game makes her one of the best in the world. She deserves to be recognised as so.

With the scoreline 2-0 to Wolfsburg at half-time, and Barca playing very poorly, it looked like it would not be the Catalans’ day. They were out to banish the demons of Turin, where last year they lost 3-1 to Lyon in a very disappointing day out. Yet, it looked like this one was going the same way. What impact could that have had on the team, to lose two successive finals? Especially this one, which they were big favourites for.

But head coach Jonatan Giraldez talked in his pre-match conference about his team being “more patient” now, “when things are not going the way we want”. They certainly proved that on Saturday to come back in the manner that they did. Whether they can kick on from here and start to turn more of these European finals into triumphs will be interesting to see.