Barcelona thrashes Sevilla and reaches the semifinals of the Queen's Cup

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Fate brought together the two teams eliminated from the last edition of the Queen's Cup due to improper alignment.

This time, one against the other, and it was Barcelona who, without flipping the coin to find out their fate, beat Sevilla in the quarterfinals (8-0) and revived the eight-goal win from the last meeting between both teams on last November in the League.

A nightmare for Cristian Toro that became recurring and that neither he nor Jonatan Giráldez expected, who, before the match, claimed not to be able to repeat that exorbitant result.

But after the meeting, his words resonated with modesty and caution, but not with reality.

Barça came out to repeat it as if it had never happened.

The queen of cups – there are already nine that fill her showcase – won, once again, in a resounding manner, with no option for the Sevillians and surpassing them to reach the semi-final.

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Cata Coll, Ona Batlle, Irene Paredes, Ingrid Engen, Lucy Bronze, Aitana Bonmatí, Vicky López, Patri Guijarro, Salma Paralluelo, Caroline Graham Hansen and Mariona Caldentey

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Esther Sullastres, Lucía Rodríguez, Diana Gomes, Rosa Otermín, Teresa Mérida, Toni Payne, Pamela González, Inma Gabarro, María Pérez, Gemma Gili and Cristina Martín-Prieto

Goals

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6: Salma Paralluelo.

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16: Aitana Bonmatí.

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18: Mariona Caldentey.

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33: Mariona Caldentey.

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37: Salma Paralluelo.

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40: Caroline Graham Hansen.

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59: Aitana Bonmatí.

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77: Ariana Arias.

Referee

Alicia Espinosa Ríos

Yellow cards for Cata Coll (min. 44) and Teresa Mérida (min. 71)

In that last duel between both teams, Cristian Toro's team went to sleep with the four goals that Salma Paralluelo scored in just forty minutes.

The young sprinter wanted to repeat her feat and dream, and she was the first to relive Sevilla's nightmares: she hesitated and looked around, undecided whether to leave the ball to the tireless owner of the left back, Ona Batlle, or to try her luck. He did not accompany him in the last games.

But she made the right decision with a cross kick that opened a scoreboard that did not stop bleeding.

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He didn't get tired, Salma, and was involved in Barcelona's next two goals.

Aitana, between orders to the group, ups and downs throughout the field, active both in defense and attack associating with her dance partner Graham Hansen, wanted her goal after ten minutes.

And the smallest on the field, but no less daring, Vicky López found Mariona Caldentey's boot in extremis to score the third and shortly after converted a penalty in the fourth.

Jonatan Giráldez saw him with his hands in his pockets.

A few meters to the right of him, Cristian Toro's reality was very different: he shook his head every time Barcelona approached the rival area.

Sevilla, who started attentively, became unstructured in defense.

The Sevillians arrived after eight victories in ten games, but came out with nightmares.

They put their hands on their waists, static and impassive after a 5-0 of Paralluelo's scoring instinct and a 6-0 of the incisive Hansen.

In 40 minutes the Barça team opened one of the biggest wounds of the season.

Meanwhile, Sevilla, impassive.

They also did not find their top scorer, Martín-Prieto, who received a hit from Cata Coll in an impulsive run by the goalkeeper.

Nothing changed in the second half.

Sullastres made the mistake of leaving a ball dead at Aitana's feet after a shot by Paralluelo, and the Ballon d'Or only had to push it to add the seventh.

With the match tied, Barcelona took advantage of the young players of the second team: Giulia Dragoni, a precocious Italian international, and Ari Arias, the reserve team's top scorer and essential in the future as a center forward after the departure of Asisat Oshoala.

The second wanted to leave her mark to mark her path in the first team, and scored the eighth goal against a Sevilla incapable of recovering the ball, of cutting off the constant progressions of its rival and of approaching Cata's calm goal.

The 3,438 fans at the Estadi Johan Cruyff sang and celebrated.

They didn't fill the stands, but it wasn't necessary for the players' hunger to be insatiable.

One more step in Barcelona's dream season: with the Super Cup on the shelf, unbeatable leaders of the League and with the path apparently calm through Europe in the Champions League, the Queen's Cup becomes more real after moving to the semifinals.

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