Atlético and Levante measure their competitiveness for the prize of a final
The red and white team and the 'granota' open the Spanish Women's Super Cup in Butarque with a balanced duel
MADRID, 15 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Atlético de Madrid and Levante UD will be in charge of opening the Spanish Women's Super Cup this Tuesday (7:00 p.m./La 2) at the Butarque Municipal Stadium in the Madrid town of Leganés with an apparently very even duel due to the solidity they are offering both teams.
The first official tournament of the 2023-2024 season in national women's football starts with FC Barcelona, current champion of the F League, as the great favorite, but once avoided by the rojiblancas and 'granotas', they want to win the opportunity to being just one game away from winning a title.
This is something that the Madrid team has savored not too long ago, which goes to Butarque as the brand new champion of the Queen's Cup, a trophy precisely won with epic overtones and character in the Madrid stadium, where it hopes to have a beautiful idyll again. against a rival that qualified as third in the domestic championship last season and that is eager to fight again to lift a cup, which it has not done since 2021.
Then, Levante UD reached the final of the Super Cup by leaving out EDF Logroño in the 'Final Four' held in Almería, but then they ran into Atlético de Madrid, who defeated them with great authority (3-0). , with whom the current 'granota' coach, José Luis Sánchez Vera, is now curiously. Months later, he could not beat the powerful FC Barcelona in the final of the Queen's Cup either.
Furthermore, in the 2022 edition of the Super Cup, Atlético also managed to demonstrate perhaps its greatest experience in this type of match, a factor that it hopes to impose again in a duel where the defenses must be at their best level against the 'artillery. 'that they both possess.
Thus, on the colchonero side the presence of Sheila Guijarro stands out, who is shining in her first season in the cup champion where she already has 11 goals in League F, four of them in the last game against Valencia, and is the top scorer '. The Valencian rested this weekend in the Queen's Cup against Alavés Gloriosas and will surely return to the eleven where she could be accompanied by other attacking footballers such as Ajibade, Lucía Moral, Eva Navarro, Ludmila da Silva or Marta Cardona.
And on the 'granota' side they are not far behind in 'powder' up top with the world champion Alba Redonda together with the Colombian Mayra Ramírez, author of the winning goal last Saturday in the Queen's Cup in the derby against Valencia, or the Brazilian Gabi Nunes, to which she has added defensive strength with only six goals conceded. In the league duel, a one-goal draw at the Ciudad Deportiva de Buñol.
DATASHEET.
–POSIBLE ALIGNMENTS.
ATLÉTICO DE MADRID: Gallardo; Moraza, Menayo, Rodríguez, Medina; Santos, Gaby, Boe Risa, Navarro; Ajibade and Guijarro.
LEVANTE UD: Holmgren; Lloris, Méndez, Mendoza, Tomás; Fernández, Baños, Torrodà, Sosa; Ramírez and Redondo.
–REFEREE: Azevedo Dudley (C.Catalán).
–STADIUM: Butarque.
–TIME: 19.00/La 2.