A little bit of Alexia is a lot

For the first time this season, the Barça He suffered more than expected to get the game going. The numbers, the titles and the precedents were clearly on the side of the azulgrana in the new rivalry between Barça and Madrid in women’s football, so nobody expected that the Madrid was going to put so many obstacles to the players of Giráldez in the stadium Alfredo DiStefanowhere 3,318 spectators were concentrated, with quite a few Catalans among them.

At eight minutes, when the two teams were still almost on the field, Olga managed to put Madrid ahead, after a failed clearance from Alexia Putellas in the center of the field and that Esther González took advantage of to go on the counterattack and yield to Olga, who did not forgive. With one more point of intensity, and a lot of order, the players of the Madrid They managed to go into the break ahead.

after the break, Giráldez gave entrance to a forward (Pina) for a defense (Leila), who on his birthday did not complete the match having seen a yellow card in the first half.

After 39 minutes behind on the scoreboard – it was the second time that Barça conceded a goal from the start after Alavés did it on October 2 and ended up leading 9-1 in the Johan CruyffAlex appeared. First, throwing a disputed penalty that the referee had to validate in the VAR, and, at the buzzer, sentencing the game with the final 1-3, which dashed any hope of Real Madrid ahead of the return of the quarterfinals. next Wednesday’s Champions League at the Camp Nou. In the 1-3, Alexia almost emulated the goal that Aubameyang achieved last Sunday in the Santiago Bernabeuhitting the ball over goalkeeper Misa, after receiving an assist from Patri.

Style of Messito the Ballon d’Or and The Best It was enough for the azulgrana to appear twice in the game to help his team, first equalizing the score and then practically sealing the pass to the semifinals of the Champions. With the two from yesterday, Alexia has now scored 27 goals this season, 7 of them in the top European competition, and is on her way to repeating the top individual awards.

Claudia Pina joined the party

at the party of Alexia he snuck in too Claudia Pina. The young Barça striker came on after the break, with the score at 1-0, and contributed to the comeback by making it 1-2, finishing off a rebound from a move that she herself had started assisting Graham. It was her first goal in the Championsbut decisive for the team to continue aspiring to retain the title.

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