Alexia Putellas lifts the Primera Iberdrola title conquered by Barça. /
women’s soccer
Led by Alexia Putellas, recent Ballon d’Or winner, the Barça women’s team wins its seventh league title, third in a row, with six games remaining and with all victories
It was already virtually, but the women’s Barça was proclaimed champion of the First Iberdrola this Sunday at the best time and in the best possible way. He did it by crushing Real Madrid in the classic with a little hand, a 5-0 that crowned him for the seventh time in the regular tournament and gave him the third consecutive title.
Thanks to this incontestable victory, the azulgrana team reaches 72 points, no less than 22 ahead of Real Sociedad with six games still to go. “The best team in the world”, as its president, Joan Laporta, boasted, has won all its games and has only conceded six goals. With a final exhibition, he adds one more garter belt to those achieved in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020 and 2021.
In a crowded Johan Cruyff stadium, the Jonatan Giráldez disciples found Misa Rodríguez’s goal very soon, although that action was annulled after three minutes by the Swedish Fridolina Rolfö for offside. Although the locals dominated, the white team managed to neutralize them thanks to commendable work and extraordinary physical wear.
The resistance of the meringues, however, ended on the brink of rest. Four minutes into the intermission, captain Alexia Putellas picked up a rebound at the edge of the area and drew a shot that, after slightly touching Ivana, made it 1-0. Real Madrid unlocked, for the Catalans it was already sewing and singing. Just three minutes later, the Ballon d’Or picked up a pass from Patri Guijarro to stand up to the Madrid goalkeeper and add to the score.
After a new goal disallowed after the break, Guijarro herself scored the third with a shot placed in the top corner. Midway through the second half, Graham Hansen put in a cross that Peter, trying to clear, put into his own net to make it 4-0. Only the icing was missing, the work of Jenni Hermoso from Madrid, the other great star of Spanish women’s football along with Putellas, Jolgorio at the Johan Cruyff and one more demonstration, the umpteenth, that Barça has no rival in Spain.
