‘They know we can hurt them’, says Barça coach Lluís CortésGerman club saw them off 5-0 in the 2014 quarter-finalThe last time
Barcelona and Wolfsburg met there were light years between them, the Barcelona coach, Lluís Cortés, says, but that was then and this is now. And now they meet in a Women’s
Champions League semi-final where they both belong, seeking to reach the final again and then go one step better: 2019’s runners-up face 2018’s in San Sebastián and although Lyon, winners four years in a row, may await, just being there is no longer enough.
Not so long ago, it would have been for Barcelona. When these two teams faced each other in the quarter-finals in 2014, Wolfsburg won 5-0 on aggregate. Playing the German champions is still a formidable prospect: the team only Lyon seem able to eliminate from Europe, they have won four doubles in a row and reached four of the past seven Champions League finals, winning twice. They put nine past Glasgow City here last Friday.