Barcelona fulfilled the predictions and won its fourth Spanish Super Cup by winning with great ease and a scandalous victory over Levante in the final played at the Butarque stadium in Leganés in a cold atmosphere and with little public in the stands, with a majority granota. The progress of Jonatan Giráldez's team this season continues impeccably: twenty games and twenty victories.
There were no surprises in the Blaugrana lineup. Giráldez repeated the same eleven with which he beat Real Madrid (4-0) in the semi-final on Wednesday, an eleven with the significant losses of players such as Mapi León, Rolfo, Jana Fernández and Alexia Putellas. Levante aspired to its second Super Cup (the first dated back to 2000) and had been completing a good campaign, second in the league with the same points as Real Madrid and Madrid. José Luis Sánchez Vera's team had only lost two games out of 17 played and had nine clean sheets.
The good numbers were of no use to the Granota team, which competed for only five minutes because the match started with two scares for the Blaugrana. In the first minute, due to an error by Cata Coll when taking the ball, the ball was stolen by Mayra Ramírez, but the Colombian's shot was taken by Engen on the line. In the fourth again, Levante almost scored through Ramírez, who beat the defense and stood in front of Coll, but her shot went wide.
Levante paid for their lack of aim very soon. After a couple of good interventions by the goalkeeper Holmgren in the eleven, Barça scored through Salma Paralluelos, who had already scored a double against Real Madrid in their semifinal. The forward only had to push the ball in a play that began with a great run down the wing by Graham Hansen and a delayed cross. The Norwegian already has 16 assists with this one and the forward has fifteen goals.
The goal accentuated Barcelona's high pressure, with Giráldez's team determined to finish as soon as possible by opening the gap on the scoreboard.
Levante took a step forward, but Barcelona moved the ball quickly in the center of the field and also found many more spaces to take the counterattack. The second goal could be seen coming given the risks that the granotas were taking. It came from a placed shot by Graham Hansen in the 23rd minute and the third was immediately scored in the 26th minute by Ona Batlle when chasing a dead ball in the area. The game was already doomed and the Levante went up in desperation.
Barcelona waited behind without breaking down, they took their foot off the accelerator but in the 36th minute they scored again on a textbook counterattack and a backheel from Aitana that left Hansen the ball so he could score at will what was going to be his double. The quino would arrive in the addition in a new center by Batlle and finished at the pleasure of Paralluelos.
The second half began with Levante fully committed. Barcelona hit him two more times before the first quarter of an hour, with a goal from Hansen in the 53rd minute, the Norwegian's hat trick, and another from Aitana in the 57th minute. With half an hour left Giráldez removed the striker and Paralluelos.
With the game completely reduced in intensity, it only remained to be seen if Barça would further expand its scoring tally. Claudia Pina was able to score the eighth from a free-kick that was saved by the Levante goalkeeper. There were no clear chances and Levante did not suffer any further punishment.
