Come back! Barça Femení falls by the minimum against Chelsea in the Champions League (0-1)

The Barça Femení began with the left foot his career in the semifinals of the UEFA Women's Champions League, since, in spite of having been quite active in the meeting and to dominate during big part of the time, could not impose in front of Chelsea with a defensive device inexpugnable. The annotation of the Scottish Erin Cuthbert in the minute 40 was key to bend the marker in favour of the 'Blues' and obtain an important victory in condition of visitor.

The spherical began in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys and from the beginning began to evidenciarse a crash quite parejo. The ones of Jonatan Giráldez looked for to be the leading group through the possession of balloon, but found with a square londinense extremely ordered in defence that grieve allowed them generate danger. In fact, the first real opportunity of goal for the Barça Femení arrived in the minute 15, with a finish of Salma Paralluelo with direction to goal that was refused by the defender Jess Carter.

In spite of this, the Barcelona kept on being the square more propositiva, whereas Chelsea limited to sporadic advances, courtesy of the forward Mayra Ramírez, that did not attain to upset in demasía to the guardameta Tasting Coll because of the fast reaction of the background line culé. However, the occasions of the Barça Femení, that proposed much more regarding offensive game, resulted barren in front of the fortín imposed by the 'Blues'.

Chelsea could 'hit' strong with the annotation of Cuthbert to the 40'

It did not go until the minute 33 that Chelsea generated his first real opportunity of goal, with a powerful shot of the midfield player Melanie Leupolz that left near of the arch. This was a called of attention of Chelsea, that little by little went taking greater strength in the formality of the commitment, showing solid in the defensive section, but more effective in the management of the balloon.

The mejoría of the picture londinense reflected in the marker in the minute 40, when Erin Cuthbert took advantage of an assistance of Sjoeke Nüsken inside the area for, after removing of on to the one who marked him, take out a powerful derechazo that left without options of reaction to Tasting Coll, putting to Chelsea in surprising advantage of 0-1 when finalising the first time.

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The VAR cancelled him a penalti to the Barça Femení

In the second half, both squares delivered the possession of balloon in the first minutes. In the 51', there was an action that could have resulted in an annotation for the Barça Femení, when Patri Pebble desenfundó a finish from out of the area and the balloon hit in the hand of Kadeisha Buchanan. The referee of the commitment, Stephanie Frappard, signalled initially a penalti, but afterwards was cancelled by the VAR because of an offside previous of Salma.

📺 The long walk of VAR and No penalty for Barcelona, eventually. Paralluelo was Offside when ball struck Buchanan's hand!

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In spite of the opportunity of empatar the party that was them cancelled, the Barcelona cast followed insisting in his game to break the resistance of Chelsea. However, the picture culé did not attain to develop his game of fluent way because of the constant interruptions in the party and did not show so comfortable as of habit, especially to the hour to finalise the played.

On the other hand, Chelsea employed a strategy of game more reactive, resisting the attacks of the Barça Femení and looking for occasions of danger mainly through Mayra Ramírez, the one who went a constant problem for the combined Barcelonan. In fact, to the 75', the Colombian was near to mark the 0-2, but his finish dangerous diverted slightly.

The culés were very near of empatar the party in the closing

The commitment came to an end with a last opportunity for the Barcelona cast of empatar in the minute 86, when Salma Paralluelo did not attain to finish of optimum way a centre of Graham Hansen to the second stick. Besides, in the minutes 98 and 99, Salma and Alexia Putellas had opportunities ilusionantes, but finally did not attain to concretise, leaving the marker 0-1 in favour of the 'Blues'. Now the Barça Femení will have to obtain a positive result next Saturday 27 April in the Stamford Bridge if it wishes to classify for the final of the tournament, in where they would confront to the winner of the series between Paris Saint-Germain and the Olympique Lyon.