Real Madrid 2-6 Barcelona: Barca cruise to Women’s Champions League last-eight first-leg win

Barcelona took management of their Women’s Champions League quarter-final with a powerful, dominant away first-leg victory at Spanish rivals Real Madrid.

The three-time European champions wanted solely six minutes to open the scoring when Patri Guijarro produced a intelligent ball over the Real defence and Alexia Putellas unselfishly handed for Ewa Pajor to spherical off a tremendous staff aim.

Barcelona, trying to make the semi-finals of this match for an eighth successive season, doubled their lead seven minutes later.

Esmee Brugts headed at aim from Vicky Lopez’s cross and residential goalkeeper Misa Rodriguez bought a hand to the ball, however might solely push it into the online.

After Pajor missed a one-on-one alternative to make it 3-0, Real pulled a aim again within the thirtieth minute with Linda Caicedo taking the ball round Barca goalkeeper Cata Coll to end.

But the guests solely wanted two minutes to restore their two-goal benefit as Irene Paredes powered in a header following Claudia Pina’s nook from the appropriate.

Pajor bought her second of the night time and Barcelona’s fourth with a first-time end from Clara Serrajordi’s help within the 57th minute and Lopez slid in a fifth seven minutes later.

Caicedo scored a tremendous particular person aim for Real’s second, blasting the ball into the highest nook within the 66th minute, however Barca added a sixth within the 89th minute with a penalty from Putellas after Caroline Graham Hansen had been fouled.

The second leg takes place on the Spotify Camp Nou on Thursday, 2 April, with Barcelona anticipated to seal development to arrange a two-legged tie in opposition to both Manchester United or Bayern Munich within the semi-finals.

Having received the competitors in 2021, 2023 and 2024, Barcelona misplaced to Arsenal in final season’s last.

As effectively as being on the right track for European glory, they’re closing in on a seventh successive league title in Spain as they sit 10 factors away from Real, having received 22 of their 23 matches, scoring 103 objectives within the course of whereas solely conceding six.

The two meet within the league on Sunday in Madrid earlier than the Women’s Champions League return.