Barça, current champion of the Women’s Champions League, is just one step away from being able to return to the final, the second leg of the semifinals against Wolfsburg. A last step that the azulgrana have almost overcome, thanks to the 5-1 harvested in the first leg at the Camp Nou.
A good result that has not relaxed the Barça squad, aware of the difficulty of beating the German team at home. “The difficult thing is to match the home game. We are aware of what it means to come here, Wolfsburg is strong at home. It will be a difficult game, we are going to keep up the pace and competitiveness to get the game ahead and win” explained Sandra Cloths at the previous press conference.
“Regarding the game we have a favorable result but we don’t think that the tie is done at all. It is our duty to face the game, go to win it, match the game we played in Barcelona. We are an ambitious team and we don’t consider any other situation than to win “Insisted the Barça goalkeeper.
For Paños, the key to the match is to stop the offensive production of the Germans as they did at the Camp Nou. “Wolfsburg is known for the verticality of the forwards, we already had it planned for the home game. We knew how to stop them and here they have to come to score goals and more transitions may be generated”.
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“We have done a good job to prevent that from happening. We have to create a lot of chances to prevent them from creating them,” he added.
Regarding the atmosphere that has been generated around the match, the woman from Alicante stated that the team has been able to “evade” the tension. “Everything happens tomorrow. The goal is to be in a new Champions League final. The team is calm, confident, being aware of the strengths we have,” he assured.
“It will be a great game, played and we want to enjoy this semi-final as it should,” he concluded.