Champions League
Fest and world record for Barcelona in the first CL semi-final for women against Wolfsburg
Barcelona set a world record attendance of 91,648 for a women’s soccer game and their players ‘compensated’ for the crowds at the Camp Nou by beating Wolfsburg 5-1 in the first semi-final of the Champions League between the two teams.
Endless celebrations at Camp Nou from start to finish! Barcelona hit the turf at the Camp Nou with 24 goals in the group stage and 8 against Real in the quarter-finals, and the first semi-final of the Women’s Champions League against Wolfsburg proved to be a show for a role, with the Blaugrana taking center stage.
In the first 45 minutes, the hosts showed quite impressive performances and played amazing balls at times, although their German opponents seemed to have lost them and went to the dressing room at the break after hauling the ball from the depths of their home four times.
Bonmati opened the scoring in the 3rd minute and Hansen made it 2-0 with the completion of the quarter while Ermoso made it 3-0 in the 33rd minute in a team goal apotheosis with Putegias taking the baton. makes it 4-0 in 38′.
In the second half, Barcelona scored a fifth goal in the 50th minute that didn’t count after the VAR came on and then met Wolfsburg who tried to level the game and react to reduce with Rod in the 70th minute, which, however, did not work.
On the other hand, “Barsa” upped his pace once more and found a fifth goal just before the final, with Putegias flipping over in the large area of Wolves and making that execution to celebrate the 5-1 in an apotheosis it brought with 10 goals to the top of the scorers list in this year’s Champions League.
The icing on the cake came just before the final whistle when Barcelona officially announced that 91,648 tickets had been axed for the game, a figure that sets a world record for a women’s match and breaks the previous record set by the Catalan home side in the quarter-finals against Real with 91,553 tickets ( at that time he had broken a 23-year-old record).
In the final, Barcelona celebrated the deafening 5-1 in front of their home crowd and were practically within reach of a place in the final to defend their title, with the German team taking more than a miracle to turn the situation around to their detriment in the April 30 rematch his headquarters.
It should be remembered that the other semi-final of the women’s Champions League is exclusively a French affair as Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain face off with the first game scheduled for next Sunday (24/4).
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