Barça, to the Final Four of the Champions League with authority

In a duel that was reminiscent of the 2022 final at the farewell to Xavi Pascual In which the Blaugrana beat Aalborg (36-23), the enormous superiority shown by Carlos Ortega’s men is striking, considering this is the penultimate European round.

The Barcelona group will fight in the Lanxess Arena from Cologne for their third consecutive Champions League and the twelfth overall with German SC Magdeburg, French PSG (both qualified on Wednesday) and Polish Barlinek Industria Kielce. The draw will take place this Tuesday at 12 in the morning.

The referred 30-37 of the first leg and the absence of the star Simon Pylick On the Scandinavian side, due to discomfort in the left knee, they invited us to think about a Blaugrana party at the Palau and the truth is that Barça came out determined not to give an option to an opponent who attacked without a goalkeeper for the first 20 minutes.

The clash remained equal for six minutes (3-3) until Gonzalo Perez de Vargas He bolted to complete a spectacular first half in which he made 12 saves. The first series of hits from Toledo gave way to the first local escape with a goal from Aleix Gómez that made it 9-6 (min. 12:32).

the missiles of Emil Madsen and the quality of the veteran Morten Olsen they kept the GOG close until 9-11 (min. 17:58). There Barça began to take advantage of the attack with seven visitors with two goals from an empty goal from Luís Frade and one from Perez de Vargas (16-11, min. 21:16).

Nicole Krickau had to turn back and returned to Tobias Thulin to the goal to end up attacking six against six, although this did not prevent the difference from continuing to increase until 20-13 at half-time with five goals without a miss from an excellent Frade and up to six more players with two goals. As I said, a choral team.

In the second part, Barça let go a little knowing to leave with 14 goals of rent in the tie and GOG was able to attack more calmly thanks to the irruption of the young right-back Hjalte Lucke (18 years old), who scored three goals almost in a row and created quite a few problems.

with an excellent Carlsbogard Carrying the weight of the attack with their third goal and with a change in the local goal, the visiting team rowed with an attack of seven without thinking of going back to the quarterfinals but reaching 29-25 with 13 minutes remaining and with possession to get closer to three goals.

Ortega He even stopped the game to avoid scares and there a 2-0 run ended with goals from two players called to be very important also in terms of the future in this Barça like the Portuguese Luis Frade and the slovenian Blaz Janc (31-25, min. 49:08).

The last minutes were very placid, with almost 4,000 spectators in the Palau that they celebrated the classification for the big event in Cologne during the last 10 minutes. In the end, 36-31 with seven goals from seven shots by Luís Frade and… to Colonia!