Barcelona continues to accumulate titles in Spain. By half-time they had already finished off the Super Cup final against Real Madrid. A classic inherited from men’s football in which, for the moment, there is no rival for the Blaugrana, who arrived with 15 victories in 15 matches. There are already 16.
And it’s not that Real Madrid didn’t try, which was experiencing its best moments when Barcelona hit him twice on the brink of half-time that left the final decided. Two goals from Ewa Pajor of real forwards who sent the already defeated Real Madrid players to the locker room.
Graham scored the first with a sensational shot from outside the area that confused Misa after touching a defense. Madrid had held out for half an hour with a lot of defensive sense and delivered in attack on Linda Caicedo’s careers. The Colombian had already been chosen as the best player in the semifinal against Real Sociedad and her speed and dribbling continued to be the Madridistas’ best weapon against Barcelona.
The blaugranas had already warned in the first minutes of the game with a goal disallowed to Ewa Pajor for offside. The Pole is always close to the goal, He scored the two that took Barcelona with a lead of three at the breakanother one was disallowed and he sent another header to the post that Alexia took advantage of on the rebound to score Barcelona’s fifth. Pajor was in the six-yard box to receive the pass from Ona Batlle and put the ball in front of María Méndez and Lakrar to score the second. The third was a header, a header at the first post that sent the ball to the second, where Misa could not reach.
Pajor was the ideal complement for the plays that Barcelona put together on the right wing. Graham, Aitana and Ona Batlle met there and from time to time Alexia joined them. Too much for Olga Carmona and the help of Alba Redondo, who had entered to attack from that side.
The resistance of real Madrid was exhausted with those two goals from Pajor that came when he tried to regroup and After the break he didn’t find a way to hurt Barcelona either.. Although a goal by Eva Navarro was disallowed due to offside by Linda Caicedo, who had given her the ball to push with an empty goal. Real Madrid continued to cling to the Colombian’s sprints, who ended the game in pain.
Toril, the Real Madrid coach, wanted to change the system in the second half to play with two forwards. One of them was Caicedo, whom he brought closer to the area so that her runs were shorter while he handed the wings to Athenea and Eva Navarro.
Barcelona did not let up and still found two more goals. One of them, a great goal Patri Guijarro’s, which was the fourth for Barcelona. The international midfielder sent the ball into the top corner from the corner of the area. Patri was chosen the best player in the final. Misa couldn’t do much. The fifth was Alexia’s after collecting the ball that returned to the post after Pajor’s header.
Barcelona continues to dominate Spanish football and, although Real Madrid is taking steps to grow, for the moment it is content with receiving the medals of the runners-up.
Technical sheet
5. Barcelona: Cata Coll, Ona Batlle (Jana Fernéndez, ’78), Irene Paredes, María León, Fridolina Rolfö (Esmee Brugts, ’65), Patri Guijarro (Keira Walsh, ’85), Alexia Putellas, Aitana Bonmatí, Caroline Graham (Salma Paralluelo , ’65), Ewa Pajor, Claudia Pina (Vicky López, ’78).
0. Real Madrid: Misa Rodríguez, Antônia Silva, María Méndez, Mäelle Lakrar, Olga Carmona, Sandie Toletti, Caroline Weir (Athenea del Castillo, ’67), Filippa Angeldahl, Alba Redondo (Eva Navarro, ’66), Signe Bruun (Teresa Abelleira, ‘ 79), Linda Caicedo.
Goals: 1-0, min. 31: Caroline Graham; 2-0, min.37: Ewa Pajor; 3-0, min. 45+4: Ewa Pajor; 4-0, min. 62: Patri Guijarro; 5-0, min. 85; Alexia Putellas.
referee: Olatz Rivera Olmedo (Basque Committee). He cautioned Sandie Toletti and Jana Fernández (’81) in the 36th minute.
Incidents: Final of the Spanish Women’s Soccer Super Cup played at the Butarque Municipal Stadium in Leganés; Joan Laporta attended the meeting in the presidential box