BarcelonaBarça’s new win in the Champions League (1-4). This time against Sankt Pölten, the weakest team in Group D of the top European competition. The superiority of the Blaugrana was evident from the first minute, in a match marked by the low temperature, the new lineup and a new barrier broken by Alexia Putellas. The captain danced with history in Austria, the country that universalized the waltz.
Five days after the thrashing in the field of Real Madrid, and under a cold that cut the skin, Pere Romeu decided to make some rotation in the field of an opponent who had already shown his shortcomings in the first leg. Aitana Bonmatí and Ewa Pajor were substitutes and their substitutes went out to eat the almost frozen grass in Vienna. They were in charge of deciding the duel already in the first half. Kika Nazareth, who takes on the role of reserve forward, scored a brace, and Vicky López, who has just been renewed, scored a 0-3 in full adjustment to the overwhelming dominance of the reigning European champions.
In the first goal, the Portuguese took advantage of an unfortunate mistake by Dubkova to beat Schlüter. He guessed the passes of the Sankt Pölten defense, took the ball from them and sent it to the far post of the home goal. And in the second goal, with a pass from Esmee Brugts, she scored a dance without a partner to stop time, turn around in a field goal and send the ball into the net. A repertoire rich in movements, that of Kika, in the city that honors the Strauss family every New Year’s Eve. In full effervescence, only a minute later came the third goal, the work of Vicky after a touch of Patri’s spur that Alexia, generous, let pass. The Hispano-Nigerian, pure nerves, interpreted her particular polka on a placid night.
The first place, against City
In the second half, with Aitana already on the pitch, Barça continued with the recital. In the 57th minute, Alexia scored the fourth culer goal, which is also the 200th in the history of the molletana. Only Messi and César surpass it. For a rather less pleasant milestone (repressing a revolution), General Radetzky was given a legendary march. At this point, it mattered little that Sankt Pölten, a city of only 57,000 inhabitants with a team in the Champions League, scored the goal of honor at game time. The work was done for those from Romeu, who on December 18 will play for the first place in the group with Manchester City, the only team that has been able to defeat them this season.
