"It's an option - the other day we did a test and we think she could give us something extra inside the area," he explained. One of the positions in the team which has been less settled this season is the central striker spot in the middle of an attacking front three.Īsisat Oshoala and Geyse Ferreira are vying for the position, while Giraldez also said Putellas could be used there as a false nine. The coach said he had decided his starting line-up for the clash with two-time winners Wolfsburg, but would not reveal it. "Alexia is ready to play like all of them, 90 minutes, or 120 minutes, she is totally available," Barcelona coach Giraldez said.
She scored her first goal of the season on her fifth substitute appearance, on the last day of Barcelona's triumphant league campaign.
Spanish playmaker Putellas was sidelined with a knee injury for most of the season, which she sustained last summer ahead of the women's European Championship, and is yet to start a match since. Now, however, it's more motivation to go out there and bring the cup back to Barcelona." She continued: "It was traumatic, we worked hard to win the final and it couldn't be. We had the worst match of the season, we feel like we owe them a Champions League." "We're affected a lot by the Turin game, with all the fans that went. "You always have to manage (the pressure), when you put on this shirt, you know what it means - you have to reach perfection," Putellas told a news conference in Eindhoven on Friday. The two-time Ballon d'Or winner is fit to start after recovering from a long-term knee injury, with coach Jonatan Giraldez saying she could play the whole game if required.īarcelona, who won the competition for the first time in 2021, lost last season's final against record eight-time winners Lyon in Turin.
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