Barça once again demonstrated its ability to overcome any controversy and responded on the pitch with a resounding 7-0 win (Hansen, Mariona (2), Geyse (2) and Crnogorcevic (2)) against Madrid CFF to leave behind one of the most complicated weeks for the Spanish internationals. In their fight to achieve a more competitive team, 15 internationals, including all the azulgranas, have stood up and have decided not to respond to Jorge Vilda's call until the situation is resolved. A conflict that escalated even more yesterday after a tense press conference by the Spanish coach, who reiterated his intention to remain in office.
Despite all this, the azulgranas showed that they know how to isolate themselves from any conflict and scored the biggest win of the season against a Madrid CFF team that arrived at the Johan undefeated. It was certainly not the most attractive rival of the season, but the Barça fans responded again by selling out all the seats to support the team in their second duel at the Johan Cruyff. Among the public banners of support for the soccer players 'Thank you for asking for improvements in the selection', 'You are not 15 we are all the futfem' or 'Walls we are with you' were some of the slogans that could be seen in the stands.
The game began in a difficult way, with Madrid CFF trying to stop any possible game by the azulgranas, who took a long time to find themselves comfortable. At nine minutes 'Memo' was about to surprise taking advantage of a defensive error that Gemma Font, replacing the injured Sandra Paños under sticks, ended up saving in two halves. The answer came from Patri Guijarro's boots, but his shot would go over the crossbar.
Halfway through the first half, Caroline Graham Hansen scored a great goal to celebrate her hundred games as a Barça player. Claudia Pina stole the ball, inserting the toe of her boot just enough to deflect the trajectory towards the Norwegian, who traveled the entire field driving the ball to end up beating the Madrid goalkeeper and put the 1-0 on the scoreboard.
Just before the break, Madrid had their chance to level the game, but a providential Gemma Font avoided first Kundananji's shot, and then Lauren's with the help of the crossbar. In the midst of a questionable arbitration, with two possible penalties against Barça not called, but with the income of Graham Hansen's goal, the break was reached.
Kundananji would again be the protagonist of the first danger play of the second half with a shot that crashed into the shot. Oshoala gave him the answer with a ball that went wide for very little and from here the Barça win would begin. Reaching game time, Mariona Caldentey would put the Barça victory on track with six magical minutes. First, sending a perfectly placed shot into the back of the net, and two minutes later assisting Geyse to make it 3-0 on the first ball touched by the Brazilian, who had just come on from Oshoala. Without time to digest it, Barça's '9' once again took advantage of the connection with Claudia Pina to score the fourth.
Those of Giráldez were unleashed before a powerless Madrid and unable to stop the Barca giant. Three minutes later, Geyse would drill the rival goal again, signing his particular brace in just eight minutes on green, the fifth for the Catalan team.
But the party would not end here. Crnogorcevic would increase the scoring account with two more goals, until reaching 7-0, although they could have been more in a Barça that showed the fiercest version of him looking for the rival goal over and over again until the final whistle.
After this triumph, Barça will face the international break undefeated and in first place in the table. The sit-in for the Spanish international team, who demand improvements in the national team in order to be more competitive, will allow Giráldez to have almost the entire squad at his disposal during this next international break that starts on Monday. An unprecedented scenario in Barcelona, which will only lose the foreign internationals and Nuria Rábano, the only Barça player left on Jorge Vilda's list for the matches against Sweden and the United States.
