Not even two weeks, Barça depressed Madrid tonight at the Alfredo Di Stéfano. The Blaugrana knocked Real out of the quarterfinals of the Queen’s Cup in a clash that was competitive until in the second half, when the lack of success in both areas caused White to collapse. With the match broken, Pau Quesada’s team caught a rout in the final stretch while the public left the stadium in a sign of exhaustion and the occasional fan shouted “resignation.”
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Misa, María Médezoz, Eva Navar (Shei García, min. 84), Maëllar Lakrar, Yasmim, Filpa Angelhl (Angeldhi, min. 67), Sara Däbreno (Irne Dorado, ]]. del Castillo, Naomie Feller (Alba, min. 74) y Linda Caicedo
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Cata Coll, Esmee Brugts, Ona Batlle, Irene Paredes, Laia Aleixandri (Aïcha Cámara, min. 16), Vicky López (Clara Serrajordi, min. 56), Alexia Putellas, Patri Guijarro, Clàudia Pina (Salma Paralluelo, min. 70), Caroline Graham Hansen (Kika Nazareth, min. 70) and Ewa Pajor
Goals
0-1 min. 20: Alexia Putellas. 0-2 min. 66: Ewa Pajor. 0-3 min. 72: Salma Paralluelo. 0-4 min. 80: Ewa Pajor
Referee Lorena Del Mar Trujilano Gallardo
yellow cards
Eva Navarro (min. 35), Clàudia Pina (min. 69), Irune Dorado (min. 83)
The white coach insisted on the eleven he had put out in the Super Cup final, a 4-4-2 with Weir, Feller, Athenea and Linda swapping the winger and forward positions. He moved freely around the field to try to deliver the electric whips that his coach proposed. At Barça, Pere Romeu also repeated his lineup with the exception of the injured Mapi. along with Paredes but was replaced by Aïcha in the 17th minute when she left on a stretcher due to an injury to her right knee that seemed very serious.
Madrid came out to bite the ball out of Barcelona, which formed with Patri, Alexia and Vicky in the midfield. White jumped from the start like crocodiles every time his opponent tried to build in an awkward position. The display bore its first fruit as soon as it began, when Athenea stole a delivery from Pina to Cata, dribbled past the goalkeeper and stayed in a leaning position to shoot at goal. With Paredes covering the short post, the winger wasted the opportunity by making a back pass.
Quesada’s vertical proposal short-circuited the Blaugrana’s connections in an explosive start in which Brugts deflected a pass from Däbtriz to Weir to the limit so that the Scotswoman faced Cata. Linda had started the play by dribbling past Ona and illuminating the counterattack. Little by little, Real’s power went out rock and roll when Patri and especially Vicky hid the ball from White. Barça had not yet created a chance when Graham-Hansen fired. The goal from a set piece, like in the Super Cup final, left Madrid shocked after seeing how their rival took the lead through strategy and not through associative play.
With the goal, Vicky began to show her most expansive version. He hit the post with his left foot and led a counterattack in which he assisted Pina to test Misa. The goalkeeper, who excelled in the Super Cup, El Real woke up at the rough end of the first half. Weir tested Cata and because she had started the race a few centimeters ahead of Aïcha.
Madrid started the second half with the same impetus, but Cata thwarted Athenea’s shot and took a fantastic foot to nullify Weir’s clear attempt. White first lacked forcefulness in the opponent’s area and then in her own when Misa, who had just deflected two shots from Pajor and Pina, swallowed another from the Polish side. Salma, who has just entered the substitution wheel, killed the game in the 73rd minute after an assist from Patri with the outside before Pajor completed the rout. Already ten points behind the Blaugrana in the League in February and eliminated from the Cup, Real only has the Champions League left to fix the season. There, if they surpass Paris FC in the playoffwill also see themselves in the quarterfinals with Barça, the rival that depresses them time and time again with a streak of 21 classics won and only one lost.
