The superiority of the women’s Barça in the Finetwork Liga F is indisputable. 22 games played, 22 victories, 98 goals for and only five against. The blaugrana are light years ahead of the rest of the teams and they show it in every game. A clear reflection of this indisputable dominance is the milestone they achieved on January 25, when the team led by Jonatan Giráldez became the first professional team –both male and female- to reach 50 consecutive league victories.
In addition, the best player in the world is in its ranks –Alexia Putellas– and the trophies –24 in total– accumulate in the showcases that place it as one of the best teams in the world. However, the Champions League is a challenge for the Catalan team, due to the increasingly high level of the European teams.
Proof of this is the game last night in which Barça narrowly beat Roma, a rookie in the European competition, thanks to a goal by Salma Paralluelo at the Olímpico in Rome, where the attendance record was broken in Italy for a women’s soccer match with 39,454 spectators. Although the Catalan team monopolized the game, Giacinti and Giugliano scared the Catalans, who ended up asking for the time in an agonizing end to the game.
With one foot in the semifinals, Jonatan Giraldez’s men will seek to seal the tie on March 29 at the Camp Nou (6:45 p.m.) in front of their fans. If they reach the next round, they would face the winner of the tie between Olympique de Lyon and Chelsea, who meet this afternoon (6:45 p.m.) at Parc Olympique Lyonnais.
The French team is precisely the one that wiped out the European dream of the Blaugrana team in the 2018-2019 and 2021-2022 seasons, when the Spanish fell both times in the final. So far, Lyon – winner of eight Champions Leagues – is the team that resists Barça the most. Both teams have met four times, and the French team has emerged victorious on all of them. That is why, if the azulgranas manage to overcome the giallorrosse, they will look for revenge in the event of facing Sonia Bompastor’s men.
However, the road to the grand final on June 3 in Eindhoven (Netherlands) does not only pass through beating the French, since the teams that are still alive in the competition are the best placed worldwide. In addition to the duel between the French and the English, today PSG and Wolfsburg will also measure their forces (9:00 p.m.). Bayern Munich for their part, defeated Arsenal last night also by the minimum.
That is why Barça will have to compete at the highest level to lift, for the second time in its history, the Champions League trophy. The first was in the 2020-2021 season against Chelsea, in a game in which the blaugrana were clearly superior.
Since the 2001-2002 season, Barça has participated in all editions of the competition, but it has not been until recent years when they have achieved their best results (runners-up in the 2018-2019 and 2021-2022 seasons and champions in 2020-2020). 2021).
Accustomed to overcoming almost every game in the Finetwork Liga F with apparent ease, the blaugranas will have to work hard to overcome first the Italian team, and later some of the strongest teams in Europe, which, like F.C. Barcelona, ??in recent years have made a strong commitment to women’s football.
