Real Madrid overwhelms Twente and heads to the Champions League quarterfinals

On a cold night in Valdebebas, Madrid overwhelmed Twente, the champion of the Dutch League, with a rout, and took a huge step on its way to the Champions League quarterfinals. With the classic against Barça just around the corner – next Saturday at the Alfredo di Stéfano – Real were so diligent and took a key match so seriously in their aspirations to advance to the round, that in the third minute He created a fantastic combination from the defensive line that led to Bruun’s goal when there were fans who had not even sat down. In the collective feast, María Méndez headed two corners into the net, Caroline Weir nailed a free kick into Clark’s corner and Feller, Oihane and Camacho also found the net.

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Misa, Olga Carmona (Caroline Møller, min. 78), Oihane Hernández, María Méndez, Maëlle Lakrar (Rocío Gálvez, min. 66), Filippa Angeldahl, Naomie Feller (Sandie Toletti, min. 55), Caroline Weir (Teresa Abelleira, min. 56), Linda Caicedo, Melanie Leupolz (Carla Camacho, min. 56) and Signe Bruun

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Olivia Clark, Leonie Vliek, Alieke Tuin (Kim Everaerts, min. 68), Anna Knol, Lieske Carleer, Kayleigh van Dooren, Danique van Ginkel (Jaimy Ravensbergen, min. 78), Sophie te Brake (Sophie Proost, min. 68) , Nikée van Dijk (Daniela Galic, min. 78), Ella Peddemors and Amanda Andradóttir (Charlotte Hulst, min. 82)

Goals
1-0 min. 2: Signe Bruun. 2-0 min. 15: María Méndez. 3-0 min. 49: Naomie Feller. 4-0 min. 54: Caroline Weir. 5-0 min. 62: María Méndez. 6-0 min. 64: Oihane Hernandez. 7-0 min. 91: Carla Camacho

Referee Christian-Petru Ciochirca

yellow cards

Daniela Galic (min. 83)

With the victory, the white team has six points out of nine and is at the top of the group with Chelsea, who from 9:00 p.m. face Celtic on Scottish soil. This season is the second time that Madrid has won two of its first three games in the first phase of the Champions League. The other time it achieved it was in the 2021-2022 season, the only one in its short history in which it reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Against Twente, which this year is in fifth place in the Eredivisie, five points behind the leader, Real was a superior team that dominated all stages of the match from the beginning. The first goal came in a formidable ball delivery in which the Toril team moved the ball from one side of the defense to the other while being harassed by the Dutch players. White got rid of the pressure until connecting in the center of the field with Bruun, who launched Linda Caicedo into space. The Colombian picked up the ball on the baseline, pinned her marker and assisted Weir behind. The talented Scottish midfielder made an impact first and Bruun got ahead of Carleer to score the cross from point-blank range and complete a precious goal due to the precision in the combination at maximum speed.

Real were successful in their pressure in the opposing half and very fine when it came to building the game from behind, always guided by the double pivot formed by Angeldahl and Leupolz, two players with fantastic feet and enormous defensive work, but also by the speed that Weir gives to the combinations and the overflow of Caicedo and Feller on the wings.

In the first section, after María Méndez showed her aerial power for the first time, the Scot missed a one-on-one after a filtered pass from Caicedo. Weir also missed a close-range shot on the brink of half-time after Feller dribbled past Van Ginkel to sneak into the area, but in the second half she was much more precise. First he placed a very touched cross for Feller to head into the net at will and minutes later he scored the free kick into the top corner.

With Madrid in flight and the game defined, Toril remembered Barcelona and gave the Scots, Feller and Leupolz a break and brought in Toletti – recently recovered from injury -, Camacho and Abelleira. The victory, which could have been greater, continued with another goal from María Méndez in another corner kick, one from Camacho and the first from Oihane Hernández as a Real Madrid player. The winger, in need of good performances after being left out of Spain’s last list and making specific errors with Madrid in the release of the ball, recovered the ball in the center of the field and herself defined the net after shooting a wall with Bruun . The victory fills Madrid with confidence for the Champions League but also for the classic against Barça, a team against which they have lost in their 14 matches, on Saturday in Valdebebas.