FC Barcelona 4-0 Athletic Club: Victory in honour of Alexia

FC Barcelona 4-0 Athletic Club: Victory in honour of Alexia

The new Ballon d'Or winner is the main attraction in front of a massive 5,000+ crowd

Barça have won yet again, and this time they could do it in honour of Alexia Putellas. The Barça captain paraded the Ballon d’Or at a packed Estadi Johan Cruyff (attendance 5,147) and went on to play a key role in the 4-0 defeat of Athletic Club, with two goals from Jennifer Hermoso and one each from Claudia Pina and Aitana Bonmatí.

Putellas has her whole family with her, and the stadium was full of different banners and flags to congratulate her on becoming Barça’s first winner of the women’s variant of the award for the best player in the world.

The game itself was no walk in the park though. The Basques are a fine side and made things very difficult early on for the home side and the first half ended without score.

Hermoso finally broke the deadlock with a header off a Rolfö assist on 50 minutes. Even so, Barça continued to make their superiority felt and it wasn’t until Hermoso scored her second, latching onto an Alexia cross, that they could finally breathe easily with a quarter of an hour to play.

More relaxed in the final minutes and with Athletic exhausted by their efforts, Pina with a great strike from the edge of the area and then Aitana with a lete counter attack, finished off the job that leaves Barça with a perfect record after the first 12 Liga games.

Next up is Arsenal on Thursday in the Champions League

MATCH STATS

Barça: Sandra Paños, Irene Paredes, Andrea Pereira (Jana Fernández, min. 79), Leila Ouahabi (Aitana, min. 59), Marta Torrejón, Patri Guijarro, Fridolina Rolfö (Melanie Serrano, min. 84), Alexia Putellas, Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic (L. Martens, min. 59), Jennifer Hermoso (Claudia Pina, min. 79), Mariona Caldentey.

Athletic:  Mariasun, Garazi Murua, Valdezate, Eunate, Moraza (Arana, min. 76), Istillart (Oguiza, min. 76), Itxaso (M. Unzué, min. 69), Azkona, Yulema (Peke, min. 69), Lucía, Hernández.

Goals: J. Hermoso (min. 50), J. Hermoso (min. 75), C. Pina (min. 87), A. Bonmatí (min. 92)

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