A Barcelona wrapped in controversy meets and is classified for the semifinals of the Queen Cup against Madrid CFF | Soccer | Sports

Barcelona does not usually have to claim. After a few weeks of restlessness after the defeat against Levante, penultimate in the League, a complicated match against Espanyol and a more gray start of the year than usual, against Madrid CFF complied. The Pichichi Ewa Pajor scored the first goal after a pass by Marta Torrejón, which marked the second head. But Madrid CFF came out of the second half, and scored in the discount after a corner, although without being able to prevent Barcelona from passing to the semifinal of the Queen’s Cup (1-2). , which felt violated by an touch in its intimate parts that Mapi herself denied in a statement. The Zaragoza Central, one of the undisputed holders for its level, did not add any minute, for the third time this season, against Madrid CFF. Torrejón, after the match, said the team is calm and supporting his partner.

A Barcelona that does not pass at the level of play for its best moment, perhaps lacking ideas, perhaps in search of itself, of its past version. It seems strange with the team led by Pere Romeu in the first place in the League, five points above Real Madrid, with 79 goals in favor and only nine against, in addition to having passed to the quarterfinals of the Champions League as first of the group , and now a. It is evident that, due to the bumps that pass, they are still superior.

On February 1, the Barca team – in 2019 – against the penultimate of the league table, the Levante. They finished 47 times, 13 on the door, but just a ball entered. The defeat was difficult to explain. After the bump, and more knowing the thirst of Barcelona, ​​a team that not only wants to win, but also to win, it would be intuited to be defeated by Espanyol the following Sunday. But the opposite happened. The Barca ones cost again to overcome the tense derby, and did not score until the 72nd minute to end over two goals against the thirteenth in the League. Against Levante it could be the bad luck of not putting the ball; Against Espanyol, coach Pere Romeu did not come out happy with the game.

Against Madrid CFF, with the same approach to a very compact low block and looking for its opportunities with long balls behind the backs, they marked soon – something that was costing lately – although neither without shining. Once again, they were not very effective, but more fluently. And that came out with the most starting eleven, although with Salma Paralluelo instead of Claudia Pina, and Marta Torrejón instead of Mapi León. Also taking into account the march of Keira Walsh and the injuries of Alexia Putellas and Patri Guijarro, sensitive casualties that leave an important center of the weakened field, with Kika Nazareth and Ingrid Engen occupying the positions with Aitana Bonmatí. The 14in the match against Espanyol, it was the first time that it did not complete the 90 minutes leaving the title in the League. Despite the minutes Bonmatí adds, people close to the player deny that he is physically tired.

In Fuenlabrada, they exceeded the low block of the first part with a goal in minute six of after Marta Torrejón – which seemed to be offside, but there is no var in the quarterfinals – in a stopped ball action that Caroline Graham Hansen launched. Torrejón herself marked the second head, and after the middle of the Madrid team she was forced to go out with more courage, climbing the lines and approaching the goal of Cata Coll. The daring was rewarded with an Aldana Cometti goal in the last second of the game. He did not give time to reverse the result, and the Catalans ended up beating by the minimum.

Sources close to the Culé wardrobe ensure that this year they are seeing “two faces” of Barcelona. One in the matches that would apparently be simpler, but that the Barça are choked at the level of play, although they end up defeating, without that brilliance of other years; And another version in the great meetings as in the return against Manchester City in Champions and against Real Madrid, rather than at height and demonstrating their abilities. A team that has depended on the starting eleven, with a short squad and has not given players like Jana Fernández or Ellie Roebuck, second goalkeeper who arrived this summer. And only two players from the subsidiary have participated this year: Alba Caño and Sydney Schertenleib.

Despite continuing to overcome, something is missing in the fluency of the game. That brightness that led them three times to be European champions. Perhaps it is still early, and the expectations about the team that has achieved so many times the impossible are too high. The thermometer will be the quarterfinals of the Champions against Wolfsburg. There is still a month for it.