Barcelona and Real Madrid will face in the second quarter-finals of the Champions League at Camp Nou. The match breaks the women’s club team audience record.
30.3. 11:36 • Updated March 30th. 11:46
In Spain, the second semi-final of the Women’s Football Champions League has been expected since December. Then the lottery revealed that in the semi-finals would face dear enemies, Real Madrid and Barcelona.
On the women’s side, El Clasico is a relatively recent affair, with the team officially playing Real Madrid for the first time in the 2020-2021 season. Real bought a series seat from Club Deportivo Tacon in the summer of 2019.
The team got it right away Kosovare Asllanin like in the first season, playing in the name of Real Madrid, it finished silver in the league. Currently, the ranking in the domestic series is fourth, but there are only two points to Atletico Madrid, who are third in the match.
The Spanish league championship was decided a couple of weeks ago and was taken for the third time in a row by Barcelona. The team has won all 25 matches they have played, and it has also been unbeaten in the Champions League – since the spring of 2019.
Barcelona was an overwhelming pre-favorite for this match as well. In the first round, especially in the opening season, Real was surprisingly better and deservedly led the match after the opening season. Olga Carmonan with paint. Selected as the best player in the world in November Alexia Putellas however, brought a penalty 53 minutes into the game. Finnish judge Lina Lehtovaaran judgment after the VAR check (you switch to another service) was criticized especially in the Real camp.
After the handicap, the game turned more and more to Barcelona, and Claudia Pina took the lead 81 minutes into the game, making the score 0 – 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. In overtime, Putellas ran for 3-1 in the final and improved Barcelona’s position for the second round.
The teams will be able to play it in front of a record crowd, as in January Barcelona announced the legendary Camp Noun instead of their home stadium with 6,000 spectators. The women’s team turned professional in 2015, and since then, women have only been able to play at the men’s representative team’s stadium once before, even without an audience due to corona restrictions.
The interest in the match has been huge, as the tickets sold out two months before the day of the game. However, members of the club were allowed to reserve four tickets for the match and pay only the cost of processing the tickets. The remaining tickets were put up for general sale at a price of 9-15 euros.
The stadium attracts nearly 100,000 spectators, but due to corona restrictions, 85,000 tickets were issued.
An all-time record audience was seen in the 1999 World Cup final, with 90,185 pairs of eyes following the U.S.-China final.
In mid-March, Barcelona announced another 6,000 tickets on sale. Corona restrictions have eased a bit, so it’s even possible that both records will bang on Wednesday.
The match is also interesting from a Finnish point of view, as both teams are full of Spanish national team players. In the previous World Cup qualifiers against Scotland in Spain, the opening line-up was limited to Manchester United in addition to Barcelona and Real Madrid. Ona Batlle and Real Sociedadin Amaiur Sarriegi. The November encounter ended in an 8-0 victory for Spain.
Helmarit will immediately face Spain in their opening match at the European Championships on July 8th.
Is Hyyrysen’s Juventus going to an incredible stunt?
Finnish defender Tuija Hyyrysen for the Juventus he represents, this season’s Champions League has been a success. The team advanced from the “death block”, leaving behind the Super League leader Chelsea. In the final of last spring, the games of the London group, which bowed to Barcelona, thus ended in the group stage. As the second team in the first group stage of the history of the Women’s Champions League, the German Wolfsburg continued.
In the opening match of the semifinals, Juventus continued his rise and defeated Lyon, who had sovereignly ruled women’s soccer in recent years 2-1. The French team led the match even after the opening period Catarina Macarion by hit, but at the hour Lyon defender Ellie Carpenter was driven from the field. Juventus took advantage of its superiority when Cristiana Girelli and Agnese Bonfantini hit and secured a historic victory for Juventus. Hyyrynen watched the match change.
The President Jean-Michel Aulasin Relying on an equal recipe for success, Lyon was the world’s most powerful club team for years. It celebrated the victory of the Champions League five times in a row, and on the fields of its home country it took the championship as many as 14 times in a row. However, the handsome tube ended last season when Paris Saint-Germain dropped out of Lyon in the semi-finals of the Champions League and at the end of the season still celebrated the French championship with a point difference to Lyon. After the semi-final loss Jean-Luc Vasseur received starting passes and played more than 150 matches for the French national team Sonia Bompastor rose to replace him.
On Thursday, Lyon will have to defeat Juventus in front of a home crowd to continue on its way to the semi-finals in April.
Other matches will face PSG and Bayern Munich today on Wednesday and Wolfsburg and Arsenal tomorrow on Thursday. The semi-finals will be played in April and the final in Turin on May 22nd. Women’s Champions League matches are shown for free on DAZN’s Youtube channel.