At 12 noon came victory 12. Like the apostles, like the eggs of a dozen and like the months of the calendar, the Barcelona women's team has won 12 consecutive games against Real Madrid. All. Without blemish. No error. Without loosening. Without giving a chance, with a lot of superiority and fun.
A spark that was lit almost every time the ball reached the same position, at the far right of Barça's attack, Caroline Graham Hansen's garden.
It is difficult for anyone who has watched Barcelona matches in recent years to understand that no one thinks about her when the big prizes are awarded. The women's Ballon d'Or has been awarded five times and it is not that it has never been among the top ten, it is that it has not even been among the nominees. Their loss. Barça enjoys it.
The best sometimes do not coincide with the most famous, media and well-known. And the forgotten one for the world of votes turns out to be indispensable for his team, king of the League and of Europe. There may be no better compliment than that. The discreet Norwegian is surely the best signing of a foreigner. She arrived from Wolfsburg without making the noise that the Mexican Marigol did in 2005 or without the star of Lieke Martens in 2017. But the impact of Graham Hansen is incomparable. He plays in another league. In each of his first four seasons at Can Barça he has scored more than ten goals and in this fifth season he is on the right track because he already has six.
Extreme of those who play with natural leg, as the canons dictate, in the classic a world champion like Olga Carmona needed help from Caicedo and Ivana Andrés. And not even like that. They could never stop her. She looked like Garrincha in Chile'62. She was thrown off balance every time she faced. She went inside and out, she cut to one side and the opposite. Impossible to follow her, let alone catch her. Her centers were a constant danger.
The Norwegian was unleashed, putting Barça ahead with a performance in the first half: she assisted Aitana Bonmatí in the first goal almost without looking, with a precise pass in the area, and scored the second with a point of rage after collecting a rebound off the crossbar after a shot by Salma Paralluelo. He controlled with his chest and shot. He dedicated it, simulating a pacifier in his mouth, to the physical trainer, a father for the first time.
In between, he had already been able to make two more. He first sent her to the clouds. Later, after sitting Carmona down, his plastic ball ran into the crossbar in a play that deserved the goal. He was lethal as Bruce Willis in Die Hard.
In the 87th minute, just on the 18th anniversary of the Bernabéu applauding Ronaldinho, the 38,707 fans applauded Graham, replaced by Vicky López – the future – disgruntled and eager to continue playing. She “she thought she had come out with a good face. I want to play everything, but it's impossible. “I think we have found a balance,” she said. With her, few jokes.
