FC Barcelona is already certain to advance to the play-offs Leagues Champions. After losing 0-2 to Manchester City, Barcelona won four consecutive matches. On Thursday, Barcelona won 3-0 against Hammarby after a double by Ewa Pajor and a goal by Aitana Bonmati. For the first goal, Pajor took advantage of an error by one of her rivals who wanted to stop Esmee Brugts, and for the second goal she perfectly ran onto the ball after a corner kick and Mapi Leon's cross. Currently, Pajor has four goals in the Champions League, two behind the leader Pernille Harder from Bayern Munich.
Recently, Pajor celebrated a great success with the Polish national team, when on her 28th birthday she advanced to Euro 2025 after a two-legged play-off with the Austrians. – We've all been waiting for this for a very long time. Inch Polandthe entire women's football was actually waiting from the very beginning to go to the European Championships. This is the goal we set for ourselves, Pajor said in an interview with TVP Sport. “Pajor proved that she is in great shape” – This is what Michał Chmielewski from Sport.pl wrote about the Polish woman's performance in the match against Hammarby.
In the Spanish league, Barcelona has all points after twelve matches (36 points), and is ahead of the second team Real Madrid is eleven points. There, Pajor is the leader of the scorers' classification with ten goals – she has two goals more than Alexia Putellas.
How did the Spanish media rate Pajor for his performance in the Champions League and the double against Hammarby?
“Goal hunter. Decisive.” What words about Pajor after his brilliant performance in the Champions League
Ratings for Pajor appeared only in two Spanish dailies – “Mundo Deportivo” and “Sport”. “Goal hunter. She caught the dead ball in the first goal and finished the corner kick. She has goals at her fingertips,” we read in the first newspaper.
“Sport” awarded Pajor the highest score in Barcelona – “nine” on a scale of 1-10. “She was decisive. Her accuracy eye allowed Barcelona to gain three points. She was attentive to catch the ball and open the scoring, and then push the ball into the goal after the corner kick,” add the Spanish journalists.
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“Barcelona mathematically qualified for the quarterfinals after Pajor's double, and it did the job. Pajor beat the goalkeeper with a subtle shot in the seventh minute, and then jumped in the penalty area for a corner kick,” noted lesportiudecatalunya.cat.
The Barcelona women's team will play this year against Valencia (15/12, Spanish league), Manchester City (18/12, Champions League) and Costa Adeje Tenerife (21/12, Queen's Cup).