Triplet to frame Barça this season, which has not had the reward in the Champions League but has in all other competitions.
Barcelona 6-1 Sporting Huelva
Enter Romero, Abilda and Gey
Salen Fisher, Kanteh y Chini
Leila and Martens have caressed the fifth goal for the azulgrana, but the Huelva defense has rejected two consecutive times from the goal line. Blaugrana siege now, everyone wants their goal.
Sporting’s striker has tried it from far away, but Sandra Paños blocks her centered shot.
Barça has already made four changes, while Sporting has only replaced one player due to injury
Another corner service with bad intentions from Barça, but this time Dolan manages to stop.
Enter Andrea Pereira
Mariona Caldentey leaves
Crnogorcevic cross from the right, Martens chest control and his subsequent volley goes just over the crossbar.
Shot from very close to Alexia that Dolan rejects with a brutal save with his foot. The Sporting goalkeeper is making a great match.
Enter Crnogorcevic, Leila and Patri
Exit Aitana, Marta and Rolfö
Well canceled and good view of the line assistant, who does not have the VAR to assist a collegiate.
The forward and the defense have fought for a divided ball, and the player from Huelva has come out badly. She is attended by medical services, but it seems that she will be able to continue.
Poisoned shot from a Sporting defense after a corner that goalkeeper Dolan manages to stop with a save.
There is a forced change in Sporting. Santana replaces the injured Endgren.
Barcelona have Gemma Font, Muñoz, Patri, Leila, Andrea Pereira, Crnogorcevic and Oshoala on the bench.
Meanwhile, Sporting de Huelva has Chelsea, Ana Carol, Santana, Leti, Mayra, Pau, Abilda, Paula and Gey.
Half turn of the Dutch, who can not find strength in his shot.
Now Aitana was trying through the center, but a forest of legs prevented her free kick.
Powerful shot from a distance from the Swedish, which ends up in the hands of a highly demanded Dolan.
A scorching sun falls on the Santo Domingo stadium, with temperatures of 25º in the shade.
Mapi’s center to the Huelva area that ends in a soft shot from Torrejón at the hands of Dolan.
Center from the left of the Huelva attack that Anita Marcos finishes off the post. Sporting knows that they will have their options against them, but they will have to take advantage of the ones they have.
Aitana Bonmatí entered the area alone, but the heroine of the semifinal has appeared to put a saving foot. It was a sung goal.
Poisoned center of the Mallorcan, who slipped through the squad. Dolan was attentive and diverted to a corner.
Barcelona’s long attempt ended in a shot by Alexia from inside the area. The Huelva goalkeeper pockets it against her chest.
Mariona’s center from the right wing and Pina’s shot at the near post goes over the crossbar. First clear opportunity for the azulgrana.
It’s no surprise that Barça wants the ball in midfield, while Sporting stays back in defense hoping to go on the counterattack.
First possession for the azulgrana.
Barcelona and Sporting de Huelva wear their first kit, some in azulgrana and the others in pink with white shorts. The anthem of Spain sounds in Santo Domingo.
The Santo Domingo municipal stadium is now ready to receive the protagonists of the Copa de la Reina final, who will take to the pitch in a few moments to dispute the last title of the season.
The Huelva coach recognized that “in terms of giving and fighting we are going to give everything, we have to play our weapons and take advantage of our options”.
The captain of Barcelona complained about the schedule of the final, because “at 30 or 40 degrees you don’t give up the same as at 20.” However, she clarified that this is the team’s usual training schedule, so the heat will not surprise to the players.
The referee Zulema González González will be the main referee of the match and in an unusual situation, she attended the press at the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas.
González González recognized that “it is an honor to be on behalf of my colleagues”, and encouraged “all the girls who want to dedicate themselves to arbitration, to know that they can be here in the future”.
Huelva did not enter the pools as favorites to be in the final of the Copa de la Reina, but they have earned their candidacy, leaving Oviedo, Atlético de Madrid, Madrid CFF and Granadilla Tenerife on the way.
The Barcelona. For his part, he appears as the main favorite to win the title after eliminating Rayo, Real Sociedad and Real Madrid.
The players of both teams are already warming up on the lawn of the Santo Domingo de Alcorcón stadium, highly criticized for its low capacity (5,100 spectators) in a year where women’s football has broken several attendance records, and equally criticized for the schedule (11:00 a.m. 30h), unworthy of a final.
The azulgranas forgot about the painful defeat in the Champions League final by thrashing Real Madrid in the semifinals and they want to close the year with another treble.
Although it will not be the dream triplet, the Catalan club wants to close the season with three titles in its showcases: the Super Cup conquered at the beginning of the year, the League -which has closed winning all 30 games played-, and now the Queen’s Cup .
The Barça coach, Jonatan Giráldez, has wanted to maintain the structure of the team for the final of the Copa de la Reina that takes place this morning and has only made one change in the line-up.
The striker Claudia Pinta, who was a substitute against Real Madrid but had a very remarkable last half hour, will occupy the axis of the Culer offensive defense, where the Nigerian Asisat Oshoala played in the ‘Clasico’.
Jonatan Giráldez bets on: Cloths; Marta, Paredes, Mapi León, Rolfö; Engen, Alexia, Aitana; Mariona, Pina and Lieke Martens
Gemma Font, Muñoz, Patri, Leila, Andrea Pereira, Crnogorcevic and Oshoala will wait their turn on the bench.
Antonio Toledo dating: Dolan; Castelló, Cinta, Costa, Pachu; Chini, Fish, Endgren, Kantech; Keane and Anita Marcos.
Chelsea, Ana Carol, Santana, Leti, Mayra, Pau, Abilda, Paula and Gey will sit on the bench.
Barça faces its sixth final in seven years, and has before it the ninth cup of its record. The Catalan team is the team that has won the competition the most times, it did so in 1994, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021.
The Huelva team, which does not have a men’s section that can support it financially, is ahead of its second Copa de la Reina final, where it already won the trophy in 2015.
The decisive match that will determine the next champion of the Copa de la Reina 2021-22 can be followed live through La1 de Televisión Española and TV3.
The final of the Copa de la Reina, between Barcelona and Sporting de Huelva, will be played in the morning starting at 11:30 am (peninsular time) from the Santo Domingo de Alcorcón stadium.
Sporting, meanwhile, slipped into the final by surprise after beating Granadilla de Tenerife with a solitary goal from Patri Ojeda (0-1).
Hello! Welcome to another day of women’s football at La Vanguardia, where today we will tell you everything that happens in the final of the Copa de la Reina.
Barça can opt for its ninth Cup, while Sporting could claim its second title in the competition. Let’s start!
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