After a three-week hiatus, Barça returned to their routine in the F League. Another day in the office. One of the teams that had managed to score one of the four goals that they have conceded in 20 games against the Catalans arrived at Johan Cruyff, but in the end Villarreal ended up being another easy prey for the locals (5-0), dictators of the competition, an insurmountable challenge for any team in domestic competition for almost two years. Only the resistance of Real Madrid, which remains in second position at five points, prevents the Barcelona fans from already doing the math to defend the title with ten games to go.
The triumph of the Catalans was built before the break, with goals from Oshoala and Paralluelo, and ended in a win thanks to the stellar performance of Caroline Graham Hansen, author of a hat-trick coming off the bench on the day she returned to play after more than four months injured. The appointment against the women from Castellón also served for the Blaugrana coach, Jonatan Giráldez, to add his 50th consecutive victory in the League and for Alexia Putellas, still injured, to offer the public The Best award for the best player she achieved on Monday in Paris along with the rest of the award-winning blaugranas in the French capital.
With the initial whistle, the groguet team started bravely in the culé fiefdom, with several approaches to the goal of a Sandra Paños who wore a special captain's bracelet in commemoration of international women's day. Morató even scored a goal that was canceled due to a very fair offside. That spark, those good feelings from the visitors, dissipated as the minutes went by, more and more locked in their area against a Barça that, as usual, began to take control through possession. Villarreal had to resign himself, just waiting to catch some counterattack. A wish more than a reality. Sara Monforte's players did not prevent the repetitive script that the blaugrana impose on all their rivals from being fulfilled.
Despite giving up ground, Villarreal made intensity and the reduction of spaces behind their weapon to resist the siege, a strategy that was insufficient given the inspiration of Salma Paralluelo. The former Villarreal player, who scored a great goal for her current team last season, made Montiel dizzy in the 21st minute before putting a tense cross into the area with great danger. She tried to repel the danger Miguélez with an insufficient clearance that Claudia Pina picked up with a header to leave the goal on a tray for Oshoala.
Not happy with her action in the first goal, the Aragonese winger once again got rid of Montiel's surveillance before teaming up with Aitana to create a wall that ended in Barca's second goal. Paralluelo defined with a great shot with a thread to the long post. With two goals before the break, Barça's monologue only ended when the referee Gil Soriano decreed the end of the game.
After the restart, the superiority became even more evident. The ball constantly prowled the area of a well-equipped Castellón team that survived on the wire until Caroline Graham Hansen entered the field in the 65th minute. The Norwegian returned to dressing short for the first time since October, after overcoming a hamstring injury , and it took just two minutes to sign a great goal. If in the second goal she combined with Paralluelo, in the third Aitana wove a wall with the Scandinavian, who put the icing on the cake by cutting the goalkeeper Carbonell to score on an empty goal.
The match, already sentenced in the 70th minute, also served for the return of the until now injured Engen and Jana, who was returning after more than a year off. But the focus did not move from Hansen. The winger scored the fourth goal with a cross shot from the right corner of the area and completed the hand with her best goal, a drive of many carats with which she left three rivals behind before getting into the area and beating in the 90th minute Carbonell with a shot close to the post. It was the perfect finishing touch for a Barça that is recovering troops in the most important stretch of the season, just two weeks before the Champions League quarterfinal match against Roma.
