Alexia Putellas expects Barcelona and Lyon to put on a "great show" in the Women's Champions League final, with the Blaugrana striving for excellence.

Two of the most decorated teams in the competition's history will go head-to-head in Saturday's showpiece in Oslo, with Barcelona chasing a fourth title, while Lyon target a record-extending ninth.

Barcelona, who beat Bayern Munich in the final four, have reached each of the last six finals in the competition but lost their last such appearance to Arsenal last year.

Putellas is determined to right that wrong, though, and could be key to getting them over the line after a stellar 2025-26 campaign.

She has recorded the most goal involvements (14 – eight goals, six assists), the joint-most shots (36), and created the most chances from open play (33) in the Champions League this season – the Spaniard has comfortably been involved in the most attacking sequences in the competition this term (92).

"At Barcelona, the demands are always at the highest level, so you're in a constant state of not being satisfied, and that pushes you to your limits," Putellas told UEFA.

"That's how I believe you have to be, or at least how I need to be at this club – always striving for excellence and constantly pushing yourself to be better.

"That makes you resilient, because living with that level of pressure for so many years inevitably builds resilience and keeps you going on and on without stopping.

"It gives you a sense of greatness. When Champions League matchdays come around, you get the feeling that it's an important and big day; it gives you the feeling that it's something special and different.

"Because it's a final against a team like Lyon, I think it's difficult to predict what's going to happen.

"All I know is that it'll be a very close match and, ultimately, we're the two best teams in Europe, so it's going to be a great game."

Lyon, meanwhile, have not played in the showpiece since 2024, when they also came up against Barcelona, losing on that occasion.

In fact, they have not won the title since 2022 – against Barcelona – which is their longest gap between titles in the competition.

Lyon have already knocked out the holders Arsenal in order to have the chance to play for the trophy, coming from behind in the second leg of the semi-final to do so.

Lindsey Heaps was in that 2022 winning side, and she is eyeing one last success to give her the perfect farewell before she departs for the Denver Summit this summer.

"These are the kinds of moments that you wake up and you play football for," she tells UEFA. "This is what I dreamed of when I was a little kid.

"I don't really like to think about my time ending at Lyon, but the fact that we made it to this final was a little extra-special for me, as my last Champions League game will be a final, so I'm very thankful for that.

"It feels incredible to be going back to another final. It's a bit surreal and also a very proud moment because I think this team has been together throughout the entire season, and all our goals and dreams were to make it here."

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Barcelona – Ewa Pajor

This season's joint-top scorer in the Champions League, Ewa Pajor (nine), has scored in each of her last four appearances in the competition for Barcelona and could become the first player to net in both legs of the quarter-finals, both legs of the semi-finals and in the final in the same edition since the reformatting of the competition to a one-leg final in 2009-10.

The Polish striker could also be the first player to score 10 non-penalty goals since Wolfsburg's Tabea Sellner in 2021-22.

Lyon – Ada Hegerberg

Only Conny Pohlers (eight) has scored more Champions League final goals than Ada Hegerberg (six).

She could become the first player to score in the final of the competition in five different seasons after doing so in 2016 (vs Wolfsburg), 2018 (vs Wolfsburg), 2019 (hat-trick vs Barcelona) and 2022 (vs Barcelona). Alex Popp has also scored in four.

MATCH PREDICTION: BARCELONA WIN

This will be the fourth Champions League final between Barcelona and Lyon, which will equal the most-played fixture in the showpiece event, along with Lyon vs Wolfsburg.

The French side won the first two of the previous three in 2019 and 2022 but were beaten in 2024.

No team have won more games against Barcelona in the Champions League than Lyon (four – L1), though Barca could be the first team to beat the French side in the final on two occasions, after doing so already in 2024.

Barcelona are the first team in Champions League history to reach the final in six consecutive seasons, bettering Lyon's run of five straight between 2015-16 and 2019-20. They could, however, be the second team to finish as runners-up in back-to-back editions (to Arsenal last season) after Andree Jeglertz's Umea IK in 2006-07/2007-08.  

Lyon lost their most recent Champions League final against Barcelona in 2024, having won six in a row prior (between 2015-16 and 2021-22) – the three occasions out of 11 that they have finished as runners-up in the final, they have failed to score in the match.

OPTA WIN PROBABILITY

Barcelona – 57.5%

Draw – 21.1%

Lyon – 21.4%