Badalona Women embitters Real Sociedad with extra time and reaches the semi-finals of the Copa de la Reina

FC Badalona Women won this Thursday 0-1 on their visit to Real Sociedad and thanks to that they qualified for the semi-finals of the Copa de la Reina Iberdrola, in a match conditioned by heavy rain and resolved in the final moments of extra time.

On this occasion, at the Zubieta facilities and under bad weather, the locals started off very enthusiastic and Emma Ramírez captured it just 38 seconds in with a low left foot shot from outside the area that went wide after having hit the post.

The ‘txuri-urdin’ push was rewarded in the 5th minute with a goal from Cecilia Marcos, having unmarked herself behind the rival defense until she hit the ball in front of the goalkeeper’s exit, but everything was rendered invalid due to offside at the start of her career.

Badalona’s response took a while to arrive, but Estefanía Banini came close to scoring after half an hour thanks to a right-footed shot from the left side of the area, which went wide. And in response, Elene Guridi looked for the goal with a header in the 39th minute, and equally without luck.

Upon returning from the break, Cecilia Marcos starred in another dangerous approach for the hosts, but little by little María Llompart promoted the improvement of the Catalan team. The visitors even scored in the 64th minute, but goalscorer Lice Chamorro was offside when she received Elena Julve’s through ball.

Although Lucía Pardo took the reins of Real’s attack and then Ainhoa ​​Moraza also had another chance, the score was still 0-0 when suddenly in the 87th minute she could change history; Ana González gave Claire Lavogez a penalty and, after the review that confirmed that foul, Pardo missed the shot because the rival goalkeeper guessed his intention.

In extra time, since these quarterfinals are a single match, Real’s nerves got the better of them. With inertia in their favor, Badalona smiled in the 113th minute when Irina Uribe skillfully went down the left wing until she rushed to the baseline and crossed low; Paula Sánchez did not score first, but Itzi Pinillos was accurate on the rebound and thus sealed the victory.