In a Barça who count their matches by goals and spend a large part of their matches in rival territory, there is a pair of footballers who stand out in each match for their excellence and perfection. Are Mapi Leon e Irene Paredes. The Aragonese has played thirteen of the fourteen games played and has done it as a starter in twelve, demonstrating her importance for Giráldez, while the Gipuzkoan participated in twelve duels and started in eleven. Both form an almost insurmountable defensive pair that is also lethal in attack, as yesterday in the second goal, with a center of Maps and Irene’s auction.
The few times that Hoffenheim managed to catch Barça off foot they ran into a Maps always well placed and Irene attentive to complement her. The Zaragoza scored, as usual, a very high defensive line with courage and a good reading when anticipating the control of the rivals’ backs, and Barça took advantage of this by taking advantage of those recoveries to surprise the dislocated local defense .
Walls, more aware of the support for Jana on the right -the youth squad played on the wing when they usually do it on the axis-, he did not lose his balance at any time and showed a sobriety that nullifies any rival hope. The goal of the brand new Barça signing is the second this season after seeing the goal in the League against Sporting Huelva, and Maps a new assistance was added.
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After the game time, Giráldez advocated giving rest to Walls and Pereira, old couple of Maps with which Barça signed the triplet entered the field. The Vigo coach has a lot of depth in the squad but the truth is that Maps e Irene they have shared 60% of the minutes played by Barça this season. In 753 of the 1260 minutes in play, the central pair was Maps–Walls. A guarantee, a deadly duo.
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