To the semifinals! Barça certify their passage to the next round of the Champions League after a heart attack tie against Manchester City. The English team, which was painless in the first leg (3-0) for the Catalans, took out their claws and put a blurred Barça on the ropes. The Catalan painting found encouragement in a goal from Oshoala to a pass from Graham Hansen (1-1) and suffered in frustration after a very dubious penalty called against him (2-1). There was no regret for the arbitration decision, since the Catalans managed to stop the score in their favor in the tie.
It is so rare for Barça to suffer in a game that a minimal scare against Manchester City, that closed the gap in the tie 1-3, caused some anxiety in the Barça team in the first half. Those of Lluís Cortés suffered more for their game, in which the goals were resisted despite having clear chances in the boots of Graham Hansen and Oshoala, than for that of a rival who managed to make them uncomfortable from the start.
The english they found the prize for their insistence, the one that did not show in the first leg at Monza, with a goal on the edge of twenty minutes into the game. The goal of the citizens came in a set piece. Greenwood hung her from the corner to the area, where Mewis touched for White and Beckie put her foot between a hoot of players that threw Paños off track.
City took air at the expense of a disconcerted Barça. The Catalans, who do not usually go below on the scoreboard, declined by minutes in their great ease and dominance. But, they soon emerged with an offensive dominance that was prolonged at the beginning of the second part. A) Yes, Graham Hansen and Oshoala They starred in plays of pure heart attack for the Catalans, who were out of breath in some saves almost on the goal line of Manchester City and who saw how both players combined to give oxygen to their team.
Controversy over a very dubious penalty in favor of Manchester City
Roebuck took the measure of the Nigerian forward, who was very imprecise in the final meters. Nevertheless, the English goal could not stop Barça’s ’20’ in a category play by Graham Hansen, that he gave a gift to his partner so that she could push her to the bottom of the net at will. The target seemed more decisive than soon after the match would bring: a non-existent penalty from Leila on White.
Cloths guessed Mewis’ shot from eleven meters, but failed to stop it as he did in the first leg. It was City with everything up after scoring 2-1, but Barça knew how to calm the game at the most decisive moment. With a foot and a half in the semifinals, Lluís Cortés’s men slept the game with greater control of the ball against an English team that showed great fatigue in the final minutes.
With six minutes of extra time, Barça knew how to handle the situation and breathed with a seat towards the semifinals, those that reach for the third consecutive year. The culé team, who had several occasions outside the regulation time, dreams even stronger of rising as the first Spanish team to lift the Champions League. Reasons for this are not lacking. Against City he staggered and knew how to suffer to get among the best four teams on the continent.
Not only is it the third time in a row that he has done it, but he has already done it four times in the last five years. A fact that only the almighty Lyon has signed. The Barça achievement makes Spanish women’s football proud, which is looking forward to its first Champions League title. Barça is going for him …