After making their debut at the Johan with a rout of Valencia, Barça had fun in their second home game of the week. There were not many goals, but there were chances in a duel that leaves Barça leader and Alexia closer to history. The Blaugrana captain scored one of the three goals (3-0) against Real, tying with Jenni Hermoso with 181 goals as the top scorers in the history of FC Barcelona.
On a hot afternoon more typical of the summer months, the Blaugrana fans once again responded by filling the Johan Cruyff to see one of the most attractive rivals in the League, Natalia Arroyo’s Real Sociedad. There was a tribute to Aitana Bonmatí before the ball started rolling, to offer her fans the UEFA award that crowns her as the best player of the year. And the one from Sant Pere de Ribes can continue expanding her legend at the end of this month, when everything indicates that she will win the Ballon d’Or, succeeding Alexia Putellas.
After beating Valencia on Thursday, Barça came out on top again. The team worked like a well-oiled machine, chaining passes and cornering Real in their area. With Alexia as a false ‘9’ and associating with Aitana, with Graham Hansen making the right wing a highway on which to have fun and with the arrivals on the left of Ona Batlle, Barça seemed unstoppable.
In just eight minutes the Blaugrana took the lead thanks to a goal from Graham Hansen after a poor clearance by Basque goalkeeper Elene Lete. Giráldez’s team did not settle and put pressure on each ball until they suffocated Real, who did what they could to defend themselves from the Blaugrana siege. Despite everything, Natalia Arroyo’s team did not want to give up trying to get the ball from behind, but the Txuri-Urdin team suffered a lot. Their only approaches to the rival goal were a very deflected shot by Franssi that went directly wide and a long pass that Cata Coll intercepted, leaving her goal very confidently to neutralize the visiting attack.
Barça only needed more success to go into the break with a larger lead on the scoreboard. From the box, a luxury spectator witnessed the match, the English coach Sarina Wiegman, who was accompanied by Domènec Guasch, who has been assuming the duties of sports management since Markel Zubizarreta confirmed his departure. The club has not yet officially named a successor for the position, but Guasch has been linked to the women’s team since June, when Zubizarreta himself hired him as his right-hand man after the departure of Jessie Engelhart, who had been hired in November to support the team. sports management.
The second half started like the first, with Barça playing and playing, attacking, but without finishing converting all the chances into goals, until Alexia Putellas appeared to score the 2-0 and enter the history books of the Barcelona Football Club. tying with Jenni Hermoso as the club’s all-time top scorers, with 181 goals each.
The one from Mollet pursued the second with insistence, with that hunger of someone who wants to continue making history. She was about to achieve it, with a heel no more and no less, but she left without her boot when Giráldez replaced her with Oshoala with ten minutes left in the match. He will have to wait for the next game (Sunday, against Atlético) to continue trying to enter Olympus. Of course, before blowing the final whistle, Graham Hansen wanted to return to the party, scoring his own double to make it 3-0, which would be definitive.
