2023-09-22 20:42:55
BarcelonaIrene Paredes has jumped to the Gamla Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg, the same stage where in 2021 Barça won its first Champions League, with the captain’s armband on her left arm. A symbol that shows that the players are winning the fight against the RFEF. Under Jorge Vilda’s mandate as coach, it was he himself who chose the captains. Thus, after the conflict of las 15, he took the bracelet from Paredes and gave it to Ivana Andrés, a Real Madrid player, who had the privilege of lifting the world cup in Sydney (Australia). Now, with Vilda dismissed, it was the players who voted after being asked to do so by the new coach, Montse Tomé. The rest of the captains are also from Barça: Alexia, Mariona and Aitana.
In the stands and on the playing field of Gamla Ullevi, the struggle of the players has had a clear role. The starting eleven of the Spanish team has been photographed with his left fist raised and a white bracelet with the hashtag #seacabó that the footballers began to use on social networks to demand changes and defend their teammate Jennifer Hermoso after Luis’ inadmissible speech Rubiales at the RFEF assembly. This motto, together with Our fight is the global fight (Our fight is a global fight), also appeared on the banner that the players of both teams showed while they received a strong ovation from the Swedish public, who chanted Jennifer Hermoso’s name and showed banners with #seababo.”
The players of the Spanish team, without having slept more than four hours a night this week due to the long and constant meetings they have held among themselves, the RFEF and the Higher Sports Council (CSD), have debuted the champions’ star of the world against Sweden, the team they eliminated with much suffering in the World Cup semi-finals. And, once the match started, the mental and physical exhaustion that Alexia and Paredes explained that they were suffering yesterday became evident. But the Spanish team has gone from less to more, completing a very good second half that has led them to achieve an extraordinarily meritorious and valuable 2-3 away win with a view to qualifying for the Olympic Games.
Six Barça players in the starting eleven
Tomé has introduced four new players, most of them due to injuries, in his first starting eleven compared to the World Cup final against England. Thus, Laia Aleixandri entered as center back, Alexia as interior, Athenea del Castillo (the only one of the starters who did not sign the statement, refusing to be called up until there were structural changes) as right winger and Lucía García as nuevo. In total, six Barça players have started at Gamla Ullevi. Apart from Alexia, the list is made up of Paredes, Ona Batlle, Aitana and Mariona. Furthermore, Cata Coll has maintained her ownership position after taking Misa Rodríguez’s place in the middle of the World Cup.
Aitana, in the same goal that he scored in the 2021 Champions League final, had the first great opportunity of the match with a shot from outside the area that Musovic rejected. On the other hand, Cata Coll could do nothing about Magdalena Eriksson’s header from a corner that put Sweden ahead on the scoreboard, without Barça player Fridolina Rölfo and Rebecka Blomqvist due to serious injuries. But Spain, despite not performing at their usual level during the first half, was able to equalize before the break with a shot from the edge of the area that slipped into the Swedish goal after Musovic was unable to deflect the ball when It seemed like he had everything going for him.
The tying goal has revitalized the minds and legs of the Spanish players and this has been noticed in the second half, when the game of the team coached by Montse Tomé has been much more fluid and the two leading players, Alexia and Aitana, have began to tame the ball and the pace of the game to his liking. In fact, Aitana was very close to scoring the second when he found a dead ball inside the area. But this time Musovic reacted quickly to thwart the shot from Sant Pere de Ribes as he had previously done with another from Lucía García.
And the scoring chances have continued to come for the Spanish team until Eva Navarro, with a work of art when she executed a shot directly into the top corner after a personal play, turned the score around in the final stretch of the match. But Sweden has been able to react, as it did in the World Cup, and level the result again through a counterattack that Lina Hurtig finished with an already defeated Cata Coll. In any case, the last word had not yet been said. At the last moment, Mariona converted a penalty that gave an epic victory to a Spanish team that finished the game full of smiles. At last.
Sweden: Musovic; Björn (Sowing, 65′), Amanda Ilestedt, Eriksson, Andersson; Filippa Angeldal (Benisson, 65′), Kosovare Asllani (Janogy, 78′), Rubensson; Johanna Kaneryd (Jakobsson, 65′), Blackstenius and Lina Hurtig. Coach: Peter Gerhadsson. Spain: Cata Coll; Ona Batlle, Irene Paredes, Laia Aleixandri, Olga Carmona; Tere Abelleira, Aitana Bonmatí, Alexia Putellas; Athenea del Castillo (Eva Navarro, 71′), Lucía García (Amaiur Sarriegi, 79′) and Mariona Caldentey. Coach: Montse Tomé. Goals: 1-0 Eriksson (23′), 1-1 Athene del Castillo (38′), 1-2 Eva Navarro (77′), 2-2 Lina Hurtig (82′), 2-3 Mariona Caldentey (96′ ). Referee: Rebecca Welch (England). Yellow cards: Johanna Kaneryd (59′) and Lucía García (60′), Red cards: Amanda Ilestedt (95′). Stadium: Gamla Ullevi (Göteborg), 16,700 spectators.
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