Giant step towards the semifinals of the Champions League female: Real Madrid won on Tuesday at Arsenal (2-0) at the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium for Raile your classification to the next round, on its first major European nightand touch the story with the fingertips, because it has never before overcoming the room barrier.
In his second experience among the eight best in Europe, the Madrid team He was competitive And he took the most out of the plan that Alberto Toril had designed, ratified by Two ‘flashes’ by Linda Caicedo and Athenea del Castillo And because of the great defensive effort to contain an opponent who despite improving in the second half, he did not find excessive occasions beyond cornering for his powerful physique.
Now, the Madrid team will have to Defend this valuable advantage in Emirates Stadium Next week to make history in the maximum continental competition, although before it will have a maximum requirement stop such as the visit to Lluis Companys for the classic Liguero on Sunday, a good test for what awaits you in London.
He chose to get out with Melanie Leupolz, Sandie Toletti and Filippa Angeldahl Initial to try to contain, with a marking 4-4-2 with the Swedish lying on the right, to its rival, very offensive in its scheme with Blackstenius de Punta, accompanied by Mariona Caldentey and Beth Mead on the sides and Alessia Russo of hitch, but to the Gunners The bet did not go well because they barely generated.
Both teams seemed to leave determined to play a 180 -minute tie And looking more at the return of the next week at Emirates Stadium. They were cautious and did not take excessive risks, neither in the pressure or in a vertiginous game, something that did not cooperate the grass of Alfredo Di Stéfano, very punished by the rain that does not stop whipping the capital.
So, The occasions in the first 45 minutes were with dropper. Only two, one for each team, and only one of them successfully in the boots of Linda Caicedo. The Colombian is electric with spaces and that was what Toril’s approach was looking for, which went well because a theft of Toletti ended up in a quick combination with Signe Bruun’s pass to the extreme. Leah Williamson did not succeed in his attempt to clear and the Madridist did not forgive to put 1-0 in 22 ‘.
A very similar one had been wasted before Blackstenius. A good pass from Russo behind the back of the Madrid rear left the Swedish in good position, but his cross shot found the good response of Mass Rodríguez. The arsenal did not look out much more, with a little protagonist, in the rest of the first act. Madrid, yes, did not get rid of the scare with a shot by Mead bordering the addition that the stick was touched. The premises, firm in defense, maintained their plan, but They could not find many more cracks for Caicedo to fly.
Upon returning from changing rooms, Renée Slegers put two changes to go for the game: Chloe Kelly and Caitlin Ford by Mead and Blackstenius, and Caldentey to the half point. A statement of intentions, with the English team trying to take command. In those, the game opened and the arsenal left spaces for Caicedo to harm, but, this time, the Colombian He lacked a millimeter to put a Bruun ball from the right on the network.
The passage of the minutes left an Arsenal pending increasingly determined towards the area of the local team, which had to strive in defense with good work of Lakrar and Méndez. The bad news was Leupolz’s injurytireless in the midfield next to Toletti and Angeldahl. Toril did not modify the plan and He put the 16 -year -old Irune Doradoto which he had already shot in the last commitments in the absence of pure midfielders.
Weir tested Zinsberger’s gloves with a powerful shot from outside the area, but visitors tightened more and more, with One more physicist than the Madrid playersalways being with Mass Rodríguez. At the right time, Toril reacted with New energy in the legs of Athenea del Castillo and Naomie Fellerat the cost of sacrificing Caicedo and a very efficient Bruun in the back game.
Real Madrid knew that the last drop of effort had to be left to travel to London with its valuable advantage and fond of a final stretch of suffering. However, he found a new loophole with his most overturned rival and the world champion, with the defense, perhaps in excess, did with A shot from outside the area a promising 2-0 that brings Real Madrid to the semifinals for the first time in its history.
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