FC Barcelona 5-2 Real Madrid Fem (March 30, 2022) - The Stitch

It was examination day.

An impressive setting (a full Camp Nou, a dream for any athlete to compete there). A formidable rival, current European champion and full of virtues. And a shield to defend, neither more nor less than the best club in history, Real Madrid. Today, ours had to show who is called to make history with Real Madrid. And there was good news, which we will unravel.

But all the analyses, theories and preparations go to hell if Mapi León scores the goal of his career in the 7th minute.

Misa did not have the day, overcome by the stage, the pressure, the continuous arrivals, whatever. But beware, she was perhaps the only one who had nothing to prove today. Misa accumulates so many saves, interventions, Real Madrid scenes... that there was no doubt about her: she is our goalkeeper for the next decade and she will learn from today, no one has any doubts.

The worst could be imagined, but we are Real Madrid and when no one expected it... we drew. However, those minutes were an ordeal thanks to the DAZN broadcast, impossible not to mention. Making Lama or Pelopincho being missed has a lot of merit. Those minutes were long because they reminded us of the worst years of Pep's matraca: they have reinvented football. Nobody has played it like them nor will play it like them. Luckily they don't have the honors of Lyon, because what would become of our meninges?

But hey! Then came the first RM goal. Olga Carmona was born to play for Real Madrid, Florentino would possibly think from his home. Without data from MisterChip above, I dare to say that she is the player who has scored the most goals against Barcelona in the last couple of years. And watch today. Put yourself on that stage. 90 thousand people yelling at you, when you're used to be in more modest settings. One of the best goalkeepers in the world on top. The white shield on the chest. And you throw it hard! Olga is already renewed, but Florentino should sign her another 10 years. Quality, mentality and anger = madridismo

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The initial Barcelona fight had passed, the scenic scare from which it is so difficult to avoid (blessed Olga, I insist), the minutes passed and we were in a position that because of those things in football the 1-2 would fall and then... we could dream.

But beware, it was not a coincidence at all. At that point in the tie (halftime of the second leg) Madrid had possibly been the better team. The 1-3 in the first leg was very unfair and the image at the Camp Nou was still very good. And while DAZN counted for 124 thousand times the excellence of the Camp Nou, of the Barcelona as a team and European champions, about the mosaic (they did not comment on the independence flags, a mistake) Claudia Zornoza appeared.

La Santiaguina blessed her with our Enlightened Zornozismo post...

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The DAZN Spain broadcast had not realized that there was a white team playing there... and winning 1-2.

Maybe some people thought that at that point in the tie we would go with an 8-0 partial but Real Madrid Fem (which is becoming more and more classic Real Madrid) was one goal away from making the ice reaching the Camp Nou.

Zornoza, obviously, was also born to play for Real Madrid. But we have to point that Athenea (without the broadcast noticing it) dribbled leaving souvenir postcards. Or the team itself played showing Europe (it is one of Real's historical missions) that there is another way to play this sport, also beautiful and effective. We were able to dream and we will always have to thank the team for that, let's remember they were playing its first UWCL.

We missed the miraculous saving from Misa. And to be able to get closer to Esther (nothing to blame her for, on the contrary). And they, who are an impressive team, and it would be foolish not to insist on it and acknowledge it, scored a succession of great goals until the final 5-2.

However, the image was good. They just... are a beast team and we will grow until we win them. We've already taken the lead in two different games, and that will start to become less and less rare. Already in discount time, the Golden ball Alexia Putellas embarrassingly sought a penalty that would have made it 6-2. There was no need, Alexia. It is to praise the tooth, the anger that makes Barcelona -whatever the sport, the score or the minute- always, always want to put another one in us. That's a compliment, not a criticism. The criticism is the swimming pool, which being precisely Alexia... was not necessary. Similar happens when you see Claudia Pina (excellent attacker, with a fabled hit, I hope she has the same desire in the National Team) kissing the shield when she scores a goal. There is a reason for Alexia, Claudia and the 91,000 people: the one in front was Real Madrid. The relentless shark that they are seeing closer and bigger every time.

--- Having said all of this, it is fair to congratulate the rival soccer players for their high level, which invites us to improve until they win. And also to the club that mobilized well to fill the field and thereby leave a match for the history of women's football, women's sport in general. Congratulations to Barca.

We will improve it, not in terms of capacity but on stage, very soon, when Real Madrid will have the best stadium in the world, a task for which we have worked all these years and which will come very soon.

And there will be Misa, Athenea, Olga. Those already graduated in Real Madrid who are called, as pioneers, to lift the first titles of our Real Madrid.