Barcelona fans smile. Alexia Putellas has been discharged this Wednesday and will be in the squad to face Chelsea at the Camp Nou. 9 months and 21 days after tearing her cruciate ligaments on the brink of making her Euro Cup debut with Spain, the Blaugrana captain now has the green light to return to the pitch. Giráldez already warned him first thing in the morning: "Alexia has options to enter the squad", and the sensations after the last training session held this morning at the Camp Nou have confirmed the good omens.
In the last few hours, the media pressure on the possible return of the soccer player had multiplied. She wanted to return for this last Champions League game at the Camp Nou, before the remodeling works on the Blaugrana stadium, and her feelings in the final stretch of the recovery were very good, but the medical services wanted to be sure not to rush, taking into account He realizes that not even ten months have passed since his injury. “It is not good, especially for her, that this pressure is put on because obviously the first one who wants to return is her. You have to be aware of the seriousness of the injury she has had and not put more pressure on the player ”, warned Sandra Paños yesterday.
His presence tomorrow against Chelsea, in a Champions League semifinal and with a tight 0-1 in the first leg, will in all probability be testimonial. Residual minutes for the Camp Nou to receive their captain if the pass to the final is already on track. “While I am a coach, I will not take any risk, especially with a player who has been injured for so long and in a game of this magnitude. Depending on what happens to her, we will decide what is best for her and her team. We must not forget that it is a Champions League semifinal”, warned Giráldez this morning.
295 days have passed since the last time the FC Barcelona captain set foot on a pitch. 9 months and 21 days in which Alexia Putellas has not stopped working with a single goal on her mind: to return and make it stronger than ever. Her teammates have repeated on several occasions the good feelings she transmits in the training sessions they have been sharing with her for a month, although they are aware that we must be patient: "Obviously she still has time to reach her highest level, but we see her very similar to what it was and little by little it has to be filmed, ”Paños explained on Tuesday.
If all goes well, Alexia will return to the Camp Nou tomorrow and she will do so almost a year after the last time she did it, also for the Champions League semifinals. It was against Wolfsburg, with a world attendance record at the Camp Nou and signing a double in the win (5-1) of the blaugrana who, despite losing in Germany, would get the ticket for the final. Against Chelsea, the team against which he won his first Champions League, Alexia Putellas hopes to return and start the path back to his prolific career.
