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The Blaugrana team beat Manchester City 3-0 in the last match of the group stage and sealed their ticket to the quarterfinals as top of Group D.
Aitana scored her team's second goal after offering the 29,007 fans in Montjuïc her prize as the best in the world.
Wolfsburg, Real Madrid and Bayern or Arsenal, the possible rivals of a Barça team that will play the return leg at home.
https://olympics.com/es/noticias/champions-league-femenina-barcelona-wolfsburg-final
FC Barcelona achieved their objective, what a surprise, and will be in pot 1 of the quarter-finals as leaders of Group D after beating Manchester City at Montjuïc by 3-0. European football is growing by leaps and bounds, especially the English league, while in Spain, with the exception of the Blaugrana, they continue to take one step forward and three steps back. Even so, Barça were totally superior and suffocated a rival who struggled to make two passes in a row. In previous seasons, they would have finished the matter before the half-hour mark, but on this occasion it was not until the 57th minute when Aitana extended the advantage to two with Pina's goal before the break and put them on track for the result that would give them passage as leaders. Alexia returned with a goal to unleash the joy of a devoted crowd that once again had a spectacular turnout with 29,007 spectators.
Gareth Taylor planned the game for his team as if it were an hourglass. With the referee's initial whistle, the first particles passed through the narrow funnel that separates the two symmetrical parts of that symbolic clock. It was a ninety-minute race against time, plus whatever the referee added, in which they had to ensure that Barça did not score two goals, at least, and if possible surprise on the counterattack. But if there is a team in the world that you cannot underestimate, it is Barça. In Taylor's imagination, he had certainly visualised a flawless plan, with an early time-out at 17, feigning physical problems in his goalkeeper included, in the style of Emma Hayes, but against the best players in the world you cannot lock yourself away and wait for time to pass.
If Taylor saw a duel where the key was to resist, Pere Romeu was not willing to sacrifice his usual danger from the right of the attack despite the absence of Graham, as a precaution, and gave the alternative to Salma in her first start of the season. The Aragonese was one of the most active in the first half and already threatened in the 4th minute with a powerful shot that forced Keating to make one of his first masterful interventions of the night.
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