Fifteen minutes to go and FC Barcelona forward Claudia Pina is nutmegging OL Lyonnes’ defence.It’s probably safe to say it’s over. In hindsight, it would have been a kinder time to call it, when it was only Barcelona striker Ewa Pajor’s brace that separated Lyon from defeat. That is before Salma Paralluelo scythed through the French side’s defence not once but twice between the 90th and 93rd minute to double Barcelona’s advantage, despite the stadium announcer even kindly opting to reduce the total number of injury time minutes from seven to five. Because even eight-time European champions need help retaining some dignity in these moments.But a four-goal defeat was more appropriate — the worst scoreline Lyon have suffered since 2022 in a 5-1 defeat to Arsenal. It is also the number of European trophies Barcelona have now claimed in their history since lifting their first in 2021.Which is the bigger point here. Titans fall and new empires rise. Seven years ago, Lyon ran Barcelona ragged in their first women’s Champions League final, consigning them to a 4-1 defeat. Seven years on, Europe is instead once again enthralled with the Spanish champions.As Barcelona’s players and staff cavorted around Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo, Norway at full-time, Champions League trophy comfortably in tow and Patri Guillarro — the orchestrator of so many of Barcelona’s best moments — sauntering with a silver balloon in the shape of a giant four, just for clarity, OL Lyonnes players and staff that could still stomach it watched on with stricken expressions.