5️⃣ stories to start your day: 🥐 Ugly gesture, Barcelona obsession | OneFootball

A Saturday, November 29th packed with matches also arrives packed with news.

So let's go over the five news stories you can't miss to start the day:

Spain Survives in Germany

The women's national football team played the first leg of the Nations League final in Germany against the Germans, and all they could do was survive.

Cata Coll emerged as a heroine, and the Spanish goalposts almost did too. They were the only things that prevented a victory for 'Die Mannschaft'.

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Now Sonia Bermúdez's team will have a golden opportunity to become champions. If they win at the Metropolitano, they will become Nations League champions.

An Ugly Gesture Toward Sonia Bermúdez

📸 BJORN LARSSON ROSVALL

The Germany-Spain match ended with a lot of tension. The German coach, Christian Wuck, pushed Sonia Bermúdez, the Spanish coach, when shaking her hand.

This is how the German coach justified his ugly gesture: “Small things bothered me. Like when they held a player so she wouldn't get a yellow card despite it being a clear tactical foul. And then, when they were substituting a player, she was leaving from one side of the field and suddenly wanted to leave through the middle. Maybe that's how it is in international football, maybe we do the same in Spain.”

This is how the Spanish coach responded in the press conference: “I was going to greet him as we normally do at the end of matches and you saw what happened, I didn’t understand it. I went to greet him cordially, he reacted that way; I can't say much more. I prefer to talk about football.”

Laporta: "Real Madrid Has 'Barcelonitis'"

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After Florentino Pérez's speech at the assembly of delegates held last Sunday, Joan Laporta took the opportunity to respond this Friday in Andorra.

The Barça president responded to the Madrid president as follows: “I think they are offside and show a deep ‘barcelonitis’. They have to talk about Barcelona to justify I don’t know what... They’re stretching the Negreira issue like chewing gum, because they know there’s nothing there, but it’s their way of justifying something that isn’t true: Barça has never bought a referee.”

Getafe Wins and Dreams of Europe

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José Bordalás’s Getafe won this Friday, in the match that opened the round, against an Elche side that had drawn with Real Madrid last weekend.

A solitary goal from Mauro Arambarri gave Getafe all three points. In the goal play, Allan Nyom emerged as a hero or as a Brazilian winger with an unstoppable one-on-one, because his step-over and cross were of brilliant quality. They are now seventh, just one point behind the top six.

A Matchday of Spectacular Level

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Europe wants to bid farewell to November in style, and it does so with great matches.

In Spain, Barcelona-Alavés (16:15) and Atlético de Madrid-Oviedo (21:00) take center stage.

In England, it's Manchester City-Leeds (16:00) and Tottenham-Fulham (21:00), although Sunderland-Bournemouth (16:00) is also in the mix.

In Italy, the highlights are Milan-Lazio (20:45) and Juventus-Cagliari (18:00).

In Germany, there's a very interesting Bayer Leverkusen-Borussia Dortmund (18:30) and Bayern Munich plays against St. Pauli (15:30).

And finally, Monaco-PSG (17:00) takes the spotlight in France, while Olympique de Marseille-Toulouse (21:05) aims to capitalize on any possible Parisian slip-up.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.

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