Barcelona cannot find the key to the final

When the day you face the highest scoring team this season you don’t take advantage of the chances you have, you end up paying for it. He Barcelona He stepped on the Reale Arena lawn on Tuesday with wet gunpowder. It is not easy to score many scoring chances WolfsburgBut yesterday the Catalans enjoyed picturesque situations that went into limbo one after another. The Germans, who were planted in the semifinals with a whopping 140 goals this season, only needed one. It does not matter that it was in the middle of a commotion within the Barça area and the shot was to remanguillé. Rolfö hit the one he had to hit against Paños and Wolfsburg already expects a rival for Sunday’s final in Anoeta, where he will look for the third ‘orejona’ in his history.

Lluís Cortés’s team came out determined to look for the opposite goal from minute zero. They locked up the Teutons in their area, who saw the first attempts by Oshoala and Hansen pass near their goal. Precisely the Norwegian attacker had the best chance to put his team ahead. He cut in front of Hendrich and took a hard, dry whip that brushed away the stick.

If there had been VAR …

Barcelona, ​​however, could have already gone ahead on the scoreboard … if women’s football had VAR. Some very clear hands from Hendrich inside the Wolfsburg area were overlooked by the collegiate before the protest coming from the Blaugrana substitutes from the first rows of the stands.

Not even with controversy in between did the Catalan team lose face to the game, which did not shrink either when at the time of play it was behind on the scoreboard. Commanded by an imperial Jennifer Hermoso, the Blaugrana once again pressed up, closing in behind a Wolfsburg that barely intimidated the vicinity of Paños. The fearsome Pernille Harder wasn’t much of a nuisance either, though she left a few glimpses of the quality she treasures.

Thus, all the clarity that Hermoso and Alexia Putellas found in three-quarter zones, turned into darkness at the time of finishing. Hansen alone against the goalkeeper, Mariona Caldentey unopposed from the small area, Hermoso to push her, Aitana Bonmatí on a loose ball inside the area … Barcelona submitted to Stephan Lerch’s painting, but unable to break through the german wall. Time was consuming and the push began to be more with heart than with head, ending up dying on the shore. The Barça key did not open the door to the final.