The Barça-Madrid women’s classic: Time.news, goals and result

Sant Joan DespíThe traditions are kept at the Johan Cruyff. Barça beat Real Madrid again (1-0) in the eleventh classic in the history of women’s football. They have all fallen from the culer band. This one, however, will be remembered as one of the least brilliant by the Blaugrana. The first parts are too boring for Barça. They are like that child who keeps putting off homework, either out of laziness or because their head is elsewhere. The undisputed leaders of Liga F have dominated the game and the match, but they have not been productive or forceful in front of goal. Rolfö, from the eleven meters, was the exception, taking responsibility for converting the penalty, much protested by the visitors, which broke the white web and gave the game to the home team.

Barça took to the pitch with a soporific calm. Convinced of their proposal, the Blaugrana dominated and took control of the game. Madrid, far from being troubled by the lack of possession in dangerous positions, has accepted its role as a secondary actor and has only had a couple of counterattacks that have not disturbed Sandra Paños.

Of clear opportunities, the Cruyff stand has seen few of them, and all for the baskets. Most of them were born from the boots of Aitana Bonmatí, leader, spirit and brain of the team in a rather decaffeinated classic. That of Sant Pere de Ribes put the talent and character that were missing on the grass. His sparks of quality have awakened the crowd, especially when Linda Caicedo, the great hope of the madridistas, sat after a cut.

During the first 45 minutes, Barça devoted themselves to contemporizing. The culer superiority was palpable and the resources, notorious, but Jonatan Giráldez has stuck with the game plan again and has thought more about the decisive game next Wednesday in the Champions League. Against Madrid, a team capable of making a profit on just one occasion in the whole match, you have to go out with the knife between your teeth. And Barça has gone to the minimum, with thick legs and head despite their traditional staging.

In the second half, the dynamic was the same. Although he has shown a little more speed in his actions, Barça has not managed to solve the efficiency problems of the first half. The passes, almost always with two previous touches, never came to fruition. The connections were there, but the field was getting small and crowded with a white defense closed in low block and the culer footballers too static.

In fact, it wasn’t until the 68th minute that the first real danger came. And it has been for the Blaugrana. Patri culminated a collective move in a cross from the corner of the area, which went straight to the head of Graham Hansen. The Norwegian, in a one on one with Misa Rodríguez, finished too soft and the white goalkeeper captured the ball without complications.

Things were starting to look up for the spoons. The stupor was beginning to wear off and it faded when Athenea del Castillo brought down Salma Paralluelo inside the area. The penalty was clear and the colleague pointed out the maximum penalty. Fridolina Rolfö was the one who placed the ball from the eleven meters. And, forcefully and forcefully, he sent her inside. Without stares and with all the weight of the culers on their shoulders. Barça erupted in joy when the ball hit the net. The almost sepulchral silence of the previous 78 minutes has given way to a cry of brotherhood, with the players jumping over each other, Oshoala and Salma raising their hands and Johan happy to see the Blaugrana team, intractable in the League, imposing -se again to his main rival.