Real Madrid female earns the right to dream
The Madrid team exceeds English arsenal with work and effectiveness in the room of the Champions
MADRID, 18 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid will travel next week to London with hope of playing for the first time in its history the semifinals of the Women’s Champions League after imposing itself on Tuesday at the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium 2-0 at Arsenal FC English, thanks to a meritorious collective work and the use of its occasions.
In his second experience among the eight best in Europe, the Madrid team was competitive and took the most out of the plan that Alberto Toril had designed, ratified by two ‘fogonazos’ by Linda Caicedo and Athenea del Castillo and for the great defensive effort to contain a rival who despite improving in the second half, did not find excessive occasions beyond the cornering for his powerful physique.
Now, the Madrid team will have to defend this valuable advantage in Emirates Stadium next week to make history in the maximum continental competition, although before it will have a maximum demand stop such as the visit to the Lluis Companys on Sunday, a good test for what awaits you in London.
He chose Toril out of Melanie Leuupolz, Sandie Toletti and Filippa Angeldahl to try to contain, with a marking 4-4-2 with the Swedish lying right, to her rival, very offensive in her scheme with Blackstenius de Punta, accompanied by Mariona Calderiey and Beth Mead on the sides and Alessia Russo of hook, but it did not go to the ‘Gunners’ well the bet because they barely generated.
Both teams seemed to be determined to play a 180 -minute tie and looking more at the return of the next week at Emirates Stadium. They were cautious and did not take excessive risks, neither in the pressure or in a vertiginous game, something that did not cooperate the grass of Alfredo Di Stéfano, very punished by the rain that does not stop whipping the capital.
Thus, the occasions in the first 45 minutes were with dropper. Only two, one for each team, and only one of them successfully in the boots of Linda Caicedo. The Colombian is electric with spaces and that was what Toril’s approach was looking for, which went well because a theft of Toletti ended up in a quick combination with Signe Bruun’s pass to the extreme. Leah Williamson did not succeed in his attempt to clear and the Madridist did not forgive to put the twenty minutes last 1-0.
Caicedo took advantage of the one that could not culminate Blackstenius. A good pass behind the back of Russo’s Madrid rear left the Swedish in good position, but his cross shot found the good response of Mass Rodríguez. The arsenal did not look out much more, with a little protagonist, in the rest of the first act, although Mead put the scare bordering the addition with a shot that the stick was touched. The premises, firm in defense, maintained their plan, but could not find many more cracks so that Caicedo ‘fly’.
Athenea del Castillo gives life when arsenal tightened
Renée Slegers put changes to look for the matched with the entrances of Chloe Kelly and Caitlin Ford by Mead and Blackstenius, passing Caldentey to the half point. The English team tried to take the command and, somewhat unexpected, the game opened and spaces appeared in which Caicedo, on the other where he was not so lucid and a Bruun ball that did not arrive for very little, he could have assaulted a good blow to the visitors.
The Arsenal was increasingly decided towards the area of the local team, which had to strive in defense with good work of Lakrar and Méndez. The bad news was Leupolz’s injury, tireless in the midfield next to Toletti and Angeldahl. Toril did not modify the plan and put the 16 -year -old Irune Dorado, whom he had already shot in the last commitments to the lack of pure midfielders.
Weir tested Zinsberger’s gloves with a powerful shot from outside the area, but visitors squeezed more and more, with a more physicist point than the Madrid players, and Mass Rodríguez made concentration shows in his area before dangerous loose and crossed balls. Toril reacted with new energy in the legs of Athenea del Castillo and Naomie Feller, at the expense of sacrificing Caicedo and a very efficient Bruun in the game on his back.
Real Madrid knew that the last drop of effort had to be left to travel to London with its valuable advantage and fond of a final stretch of suffering. However, he found a new loophole with his most overturned rival and the castle, with the defense perhaps in excess, he shot a promising 2-0 from outside the area
Data Sheet.
-RESULT: Real Madrid, 2-Arsenal FC, 0 (1-0, at rest).
–Alineations.
REAL MAYD: Rodrigue Misa; Shei Garcia, Lacker, Funery, Carmon; Angels, Toletti, Leupolz (Dorad, min.63), Caicedo (From Castle, min.74); Weir.
ARINL FC: Zinsberger; Fox, Williamson, Chapter, McCabe; Little, Cross-Cross (Wälti, min.69); Mead (Kelly, min.46), Russo (Hurtig, min.85), Caldent (Maanum, min.85); the Blacksteinus (Ford, min.46).
–Goles.
1-0, 22. Caicedo minute.
2-0, minute 82. Del Castillo.
–Arbitra: Frida Klarlund (DIN). He admonished Carmona (min.92) and Mass Rodríguez (min.94), for Real Madrid, already Kelly (min.89), by Arsenal FC.
-Stadium: Alfredo di Stéfano. 3,102 spectators.