And win. And enjoy. And win again. This is how Barça lives. Every match, a new opportunity to have fun on the pitch. And if it is a final, hunger and determination took over the culés. Against Levantethe team led by Jonatan Giráldez won with aoverwhelming authority (7-0) and got lift the first season title. At a firm pace, Barça is advancing towards its goal. They want to make history and take title poker for the first time. They already have the first one in their pocket.
𝗦 𝗨 𝗣 𝗘 𝗥 𝗖 𝗔 𝗠 𝗣 𝗜 𝗢 𝗡 𝗘 𝗦 🏆 pic.twitter.com/f9TLHzRk7Y
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The uprisingdespite the a priori difference between the teams, He didn’t want to stand on the green and wait for a rout.. They wanted to go out and play, to play the game against the Blaugranas. And boy did they do it. Barely two minutes into the game, they caused a small cardiac arrest Jonatan Giraldez what he saw from the technical area as Cata Coll a dribble was played inside the small area before Maira Ramirez. Many times this action of absolute (and excessive) confidence has gone well for him, however, when faced with the granota, he stumbled and fell to the ground while his opponent took the ball and, with subtlety, pushed the ball towards the goal. It seemed like it was in slow motionto. Centimeters remained while Sánchez Vera’s arms were raised to celebrate the goal. But Engen thwarted his plans. The now central defender (forced to adapt to her new position due to the number of injuries at the Barça club) sent the ball over the goal line, defending the 0-0 score.
😱 First minute and first chance!
🥅 Engen saved her under sticks.
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The actions were added up for both teams, something unusual. A swing, a suffocating pressure from Levante that bothered a Barça team that, when it went up a gear, regrouped and began to add attacks with goals. The first was from Salma Paralluelothe most lethal player of the culé team. Always with one eye on the goal, with the hunger of a ‘killer’ to which Barça has subscribed. The forward took advantage of an exquisite cross from Graham Hansen towards the far post to, alone, push the ball and score the first culé. He was essential in the semi-final, with a double, and in the final it couldn’t be any other way.
With so much, Barça unleashed. Control, verticality and authority, and the Blaugranas knocked out again in the following bars with a new flash of talent from Caroline Graham Hansen. The Norwegian, stratospheric this season, planted inside the area, took advantage of a rebound and, after cutting back, put it into the goal. Another breath of fresh air, to gain strength and to smile. From ear to ear, like the one Graham Hansen gave us while he readjusted positions with Mariona after the goal.
When Barça goes into final mode, it is intractable. It is impossible to stop him, steal the ball from him. The team led by Jonatan Giráldez has a fierce drive, textbook football.
A ball drama
Now, while the football exquisiteness was staged on the pitch, there was also room for the ridiculing scenes to which the Federation has accustomed us. After the drama of the organization of the Super Cup and the tickets for the matches, in the final, they failed again, this time in the balls of the final. During the first half, the game had to be stopped up to 4 times because the spherical was not in condition. Olatz Rivera, referee of the match, no longer knew how to ask the players to check new balls in order to continue the game. The 7,139 spectators who attended the final exemplified, once again, the will to follow it despite the poor organization of the Federation that does things at full speed and without any planning. And what can we say about the financial prizes?. €25,000 euros for the championalmost not enough to pay for travel and hotels for the players who have spent almost a week away from home.
However the Barça keeps winning before wind and tide. The blaugranas, completely unleashed on the green, annulled a Levante team that was very brave in its approach. Wanting to challenge the culés for the ball was costly and before half an hour Ona Batlle signed the third. The Catalan arrived at Barça this summer market, she returned home from Manchester to win titles and wear again what was always your favorite t-shirt. With the goal he sealed a final that would lead Barça to lift the first title of the season. and his pfirst trophy as a culé.
The steamroller that the team became was devastating. Barça, in addition to being lethal, began to enjoy themselves on the pitch like rarely before. The connection between the Blaugranas was hypnotizing. Graham, Salma and Ona destroyed Levante’s hopes with goals. The fourth came from the Norwegian’s boots, after a triangulation with Aitana Bonmatí, which the Catalan resolved with a backheel from inside the area and which ended up sinking Sánchez Vera’s team, who looked at their players in shock. The fifth was put Salma in the added time of the first half after a center Ona Batllewho even left his shadow to serve up the umpteenth goal for the Blaugranas before the break.
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In the second half, Graham Hansen and Aitana Bonmatí once again surpassed Emma Holmgren, with self-confidence and simplicity, in the early stages for the final 7-0. By doing what comes naturally to them, they are born with their unique talent. Touched by a barita, with a vision only worthy of the privileged, the best in the world.
First final of the year and first title for the culés. On the green they are intractable and, competing, there is no one who wins them.