The most interesting thing left for Barça Women to do this season was to recover the best player in the world. Alexia Putellas returned to being a footballer 303 days later, just in time to win for Barcelona its eighth League F, the fourth in a row.
Alexia had not played a single minute of the championship until in the 74th minute she entered the field replacing her teammate Claudia Pina, which did not prevent her from collecting the trophy in the box and being buttered by her teammates. More than 5,000 people witnessed the return of the midfielder at the Johan Cruyff stadium, with the captain's armband and the 11 on her back, in what was a comfortable 3-0 against Sporting de Huelva.
The Mollet del Vallès teared the cruciate ligament of the left knee, the worst injury that can happen to a footballer, on July 5, 2022, during the concentration with the Spanish team in preparation for the European Championship in England. From that day we could only see her in galas, collecting her second Golden Ball, and recently The Best to the best player of 2022, despite disappearing from the playing fields for half a year.
Putellas, 29, arrives just in time to play the Champions League final in Eindhoven on June three. Tomorrow we will know if against Arsenal or Wolfsburg. Although it was already in the second leg of the semifinals against Chelsea, it was not necessary to use it. To get an idea of the dimension of the Spanish player, in the first leg at Stamford Bridge, where the midfielder traveled to support her teammates, the stands chanted her name in the eleventh minute.
Alexia Putellas lifts the champions cup of the Liga F.Toni AlbirEFE
Barcelona will try to defend a title that escaped him last year against Olympique Lyon (1-3) and that he has not won since the previous season, when they defeated Chelsea by zero to four.
In preparation for the final, Putellas will have the remaining four days of League F, where Barça still has no rival. Not only has he won every game but he has 61 without losingr, since a 4-3 that Atlético de Madrid endorsed him two leagues ago, on June 1, 2021. Putellas' team, without her, has scored 108 goals in 26 games and concedes one every five.
The only mole of this Barcelona is the Copa de la Reina. The Catalan team thrashed Osasuna (0-9) in the knockout stages of the KO competition, but ended up eliminated due to an administrative error.
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