Alexia reigns in another historic party and wins her scoring duel with Wassmuth

This Friday’s game at the Camp Nou faced two of the best teams in the world, Barça y wolfsburgand also two of the best players on the planet. Alexia Putellasthe current Ballon d’Or, and Tabea Wassmuth, top scorer in the women’s Champions League, until this match. But there was no color and the captain, like the Barça team, was the great winner of this particular duel, leading the team’s win Jonathan Giraldez. He did it, as usual, with his quality in midfield, and also with his success in front of goal.

A double, his third already in this Champions League, added Alexia, who directed the game of the azulgrana team with class and precision, supplying her teammates with opportunities and imposing her rhythm. But he also wanted his goals and ended up finding them. He marked the 4-0 with which Barça completed a first part to frame and to remember and also signed the 5-1 outrightconverting a penalty that she herself caused, with her usual infallibility from eleven meters, ending the few German hopes, if they existed, of coming back on the lap in the Wolkswagen Arena.

Two dianas to overcome the Wassmuth and set as Solo top scorer in this Women’s Champions League with 10 goals in nine games played. Key in the quarterfinal tie, with three goals, two of these in the first leg in one of the games of the season that has cost the team the most to move forward, Alexia He did not miss his appointment with the goal either in this first leg of the semifinals. They are already 31 goals that Alexia accumulates this season among all competitions, Barça’s top scorer so far this year.

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deserved MVP

With his two goals and his umpteenth game lesson, it is not surprising that UEFA chose Alexia, who was substituted in the 90th minute and received a standing ovation from a dedicated Camp Nou, as MVP of the match. “There is no distance” he said two years ago after losing to Wolfsburg also in the semis, although given yesterday’s exhibition, now there is, but on the part of Barça compared to much of the rest and also of Alexia, closer to his second Champions League and that he continues to make numbers to repeat as Ballon d’Or.