In the fifteenth game, Madrid failed again against Barcelona, the dominator of European football. Four and a half years after Real incorporated the women’s team into its organizational chart, tonight the white team left the feeling that despite their progression they are still oceans away from the European champions, a team made that suited them a rout for the umpteenth time in less than five years.
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Misa, Oihane Hernández (Sheila García, min. 69), María Méndez, Olga Carmona, Maëlle Lakrar, Melanie Leupolz, Filippa Angeldahl (Sandie Toletti, min. 55), Naomie Feller (Eva Navarro, min. 69), Teresa Abelleira ( Linda Caicedo, min. 55), Alba Redondo (Signe Bruun, min. 55) and Caroline Weir
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Cata Coll, Ona Batlle, Irene Paredes, Mapi León, Esmee Brugts, Patri Guijarro, Alexia Putellas (Sydney Schertenleib, min. 91), Aitana Bonmatí, Ewa Pajor (Kika Nazareth, min. 75), Clàudia Pina (Keira Walsh, min. . 60) and Caroline Hansen (Vicky López, min. 75)
Goals
0-1 min. 3: Patri Guijarro. 0-2 min. 21: Patri Guijarro. 0-3 min. 38: Claudia Pina. 0-4 min. 85: Alexia Putellas
Referee Zulema González González
yellow cards
Romeu (min. 74)
Barça, with its gala midfield—Patri Guijarro, Aitana Bonmatí and Alexia Putellas—stood at the Alfredo di Stéfano with a formidable hierarchy. From the beginning he boxed Real in his field through the static attack and a suffocating forward pressure that caused White to run again and again after the ball, with many difficulties in stealing and unable to tie the ball and throw to Alba Round to space. The blaugranas already got close to the goal in the third minute, when Ona Batlle filtered a through pass for Graham Hansen. The Norwegian’s cross sailed past Misa Rodríguez’s goal without anyone putting it into the net, but a few seconds later Guijarro scored the first on a corner taken by Hansen and combed by Putellas.
The early goal was a huge emotional blow for the Toril team. The white coach, as against Chelsea in London, chose to reinforce the midfield with three players—Abelleira, Angeldahl and Leupolz—and initially sacrificed the Colombian Linda Caicedo, the usual starter on the left wing. Without the young coffee maker, a footballer with a brilliant one-on-one and a fabulous ability to associate in small spaces, Real was not only a less vertical team, but the commitment to accumulating midfielders to have more control was so innocuous that Barcelona They finished the first half with more than 70% possession. Every time Madrid wanted to get the ball played, they found a pond of crocodiles, a swarm of Barça footballers who were extremely fine in the pressure after losing. In this frustrating context for them, White hunted for a quick exit in which Feller threw Redondo behind the Barça defense. The woman from Albacete was left alone against Cata after knocking down Batlle, but the goalkeeper saved the tie by winning one-on-one.
After Real’s only warning in the first half, Pajor missed a pass from Bonmatí to push the ball into the net and Lakrar later avoided another goal from the Polish forward in a formidable cross, although Guijarro immediately bounced the ball home on the edge of the area and nailed it into the right corner of Misa’s goal. With Madrid completely overwhelmed in the first section, Barça found the third goal in a fantastic combination between Bonmatí and Hansen that Claudia Pina put into the net. Before the break, Misa left three good stretches against the attempts of Aitana, Graham Hansen and Mapi León. The Norwegian also launched another one-on-one against the Canarian goalkeeper.
Toril gave a reel in the second to Bruun, Toletti and Caicedo – Redondo, Abelleira and Angeldahl came out – after Misa, who saved a much more resounding win, intervened again to reject two shots from Mapi and deny Pina a one-on-one . The changes improved Madrid, who were finally able to run into the enormous space behind the Barça defense. With the power of Feller and Caicedo and the work of Bruun as the nine reference to hold the ball and offload it, White finally approached Cata’s goal, who deflected a shot from Olga Carmona and saw two attempts by the Danish forward They left off by a hair’s breadth.
With the match decided, Pere Romeu brought in Walsh, Kika and the talented young Vicky López and Barça killed the match on a counterattack with a goal from Alexia after an error by Lakrar. With the victory, the Blaugrana, who have won five consecutive Leagues, leave Real – with one game less – eight points after ten games.
Madrid had given signs this year against Chelsea in the Champions League and Atlético in the League that perhaps they could finally compete against Barcelona, a rival that had scored 49 goals against them in their 14 previous games and had conceded only six. White fell at Stamford Bridge mainly due to three individual errors but they managed to bluesone of the strongest teams in Europe, and they tied against their neighbors after a magnificent performance by Lola Gallardo in the red and white goal. But tonight, before the new totem of continental football, it was seen that at the moment they are still very, very far from scratching something against Barça.
