The Spanish Super Cup final ended when Caroline Graham Hansen felt comfortable. He dominated the right wing, always as unbalancing as he was decisive in the game, both scoring and assisting. “I’m not surprised that Caro is in the scoring actions because she is very differential in passing, dribbling, unmarking and finishing,” said Pere Romeu about the Norwegian. And if by her side is her former Wolfsburg teammate and a killer like Ewa Pajor, a Patri Guijarro eager to score from outside the area and an Alexia Putellas in her best moment, the win was inevitable once again. “If we continue playing like this we will get closer to deserving the rest of the titles. […] It gives us morale for what is to come,” confessed Romeu, who assured that the objective is to repeat poker. The first step has already been taken. But “the team is still hungry,” Alexia added.
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Cata Coll, Irene Paredes, Fridolina Rolfö, Ona Batlle, Mapi León, Alexia Putellas, Patri Guijarro, Aitana Bonmatí, Ewa Pajor, Clàudia Pina and Graham
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Misa, Maëlle Lakrar, Olga Carmona, María Méndez, Antônia, Filippa Angeldahl, Alba Redondo, Sandie Toletti, Linda Caicedo, Caroline Weir and Signe Bruun
Goals 1-0 min. 31: Graham. 2-0 min. 37: Ewa Pajor. 3-0 min. 48: Ewa Pajor. 4-0 min. 62: Patri Guijarro. 5-0 min. 84: Alexia Putellas.
Referee Olatz Rivera Olmedo
yellow cards Sandie Toletti (min. 36) and Jana Fernández (min. 80)
This Sunday Graham once again claimed, as silent without the ball as she was loud with it, that her presence is mandatory in the individual grand prix. The Norwegian, after a few last games out due to muscle problems, made Olga Carmona dance, who couldn’t keep up with her. He scored the first goal after half an hour of play. “The first goal for them was like a bucket of cold water,” confessed Patri Guijarro, MVP of the final. “Until the first goal the match was even, well executed by the players, with clear options for both. The 3-0 is almost definitive,” said Alberto Toril, Real Madrid coach.
That was Graham’s ninth goal in the Super Cup in nine games played. And this season he already has 12 goals and eight assists in 21 games. But he didn’t have enough, and accompanied top scorer Pajor to seal the final. Graham started a play in which Ona Batlle assisted the Pole, who scored the second and also the third after the Norwegian served a corner. This season, his first as a culé, he already has 24 goals. “Celebrating the title I told him that I hope it is the first of many. She is a great player,” Patri explained about Pajor.
He sentenced the match with the fifth Alexia Putellas after several attempts and hits to the ground in anger, and kissed the shield in his first final as a starter after almost three years. “I was a little angry because of the ones I had had during the game. But a positive mentality, get up from your mistakes and do it the next time, that’s what I thought,” the captain confessed. This was her tenth goal against Real Madrid, and she is the top scorer in the classics.
This is also the fifth Super Cup for Barcelona, the fourth in a row. But the first won against Real Madrid. “The day will come when they will beat us, I don’t know when, but I hope it won’t be in a final,” Patri explained with a smile. “I don’t know what the distance is, but our ambition and responsibility is to increase it,” Alexia confessed. Both also talked about the possibility of celebrating the Super Cup in Arabia. “I think we should have an opinion, because for women, for us, it would not be a comfortable situation,” Patri said. “I don’t see it clearly either. It is a place where women have no rights,” Graham followed her. “I think it’s not time to talk about it now. It’s a hypothesis. “Today is a day to enjoy,” added Alexia, smiling, happy with the victory and the title that is beginning to mark the path.
