Alexia reigns over Real Madrid and signs for the final (1-0)
Alexia Putellas points the way again for Barça. The Barça captain has broken the tie that has prevailed on the scoreboard throughout the match against Real Madrid to seal the passage to the final of the Spanish Super Cup in added time. Barça’s first goal. After an exceptional season like last year, Barça wanted to raise the feat to the maximum power and wanted to remove the thorn from the Super Cup. Then, against Atlético de Madrid, the team led at the time by Lluís Cortés could not win the semifinals and fell in the penalty shootout with refereeing controversy included. The scenario, this time, has been very different, but not easy. With a hard-fought victory, the Catalans have reserved a place for the final that will be played this Sunday at 12 noon in the City of Football, in Las Rozas.
Barça did not feel comfortable during the first stages of the match. Barça have been in control of the ball, but the chances have not been dangerous for the white defense. After this, you could see that the players of Fridolina Rolfö were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. In the first half, the Swede and Lieke Martens led the most lethal approaches for the Catalans, but either Misa or the post prevented the tie from falling apart on the scoreboard. The white goalkeeper has been the star of a first half in which the Catalans have seen with frustration how the canary was an impossible wall to overcome.
In the second half he demanded a reaction. With the tie at zero shining on the scoreboard, the Catalan team needed an extra to not relive a painful defeat like last season. The Catalan intensity stunned the Madrid players until the 60th minute, when they woke up. First Athenea, who sent the ball over the crossbar, and then Zornoza overcame the Catalan defense without problems due to the desperation of Jonatan Giráldez. Alexia has taken the weight of the team from the middle of the field to create a solution that has not been easy to find.
Mistakes within the area pay dearly. In just under five minutes, Barça have had up to four chances inside the small white area. None of them have seen goal. The Madrid players, taking advantage of a scenario they would never have imagined in a match against Barça, gritted their teeth and, with Misa as the undisputed leader of the team, reached the nineties with a draw on the scoreboard. In the final stretch, the whites became giants just as the Catalans faced their worst moment on the green during the semifinals. The sensations were bad, of disappearance on the part of the Catalan ones, until Alexia has appeared. The captain, the best player in Europe, the star of the team, has once again been the woman of the important moments. Mollet del Vallès scored the decisive goal again when Barça were up against the ropes and turned one more ball into gold. This Sunday, Barça are waiting for the first title of the season.