DBasia.news – It has been seven years since the German goalkeeper, Marc-Andre ter Stegen strengthened Barcelona. In that period, Ter Stegen has won four LaLiga titles, five Copa del Rey trophies and one Champions League trophy.
But at the moment the 29-year-old goalkeeper is not in Barcelona’s best moment. The Blaugrana are transitioning into a new era without Lionel Messi under the direction of club legend, Xavi.
In that period Barca went through a phase of ups and downs and that can be seen from the recent results achieved in LaLiga. Playing the postponed match at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Sevilla headquarters on Wednesday (22/12), Barcelona drew 1-1 with a goal from Papu Gomez (32′) which Ronald Araujo (45′) replied.
Barcelona is still stuck in seventh place in the standings with 28 points from 18 matches, 10 points adrift of Sevilla in second place in the standings. Xavi disappointed his team failed to win.
“We’ve dropped two points, we deserved to win, also it was 11 vs 11. I saw a Barca team with personality, that’s what I want and the team is growing. We are good at pressing and playing the ball. We competed well, even though it was a draw.” said Xavi.
“This ember is getting closer to what we want, to be protagonists and braves. This is the right path, but I will fight to sleep because we have to win.”
“We were also unlucky. Gavi’s header, Dembele hit the post and they took the lead from set pieces. The team is competing, growing and I’m proud, it’s just not draw because Barca are built to win.”
It was a special game for Ter Stegen who has already played his 300th game for Barcelona. Ironically from the Sport-English data, Gomez’s goal was also the 300th goal for Barca to concede a goal (in this case for Ter Stegen).
In other words, Ter Stegen has conceded an average of one goal per game since moving to Barca from Borussia Monchengladbach. He is now the fourth goalkeeper with the most appearances at Barca after Victor Valdes, Andoni Zubizarreta and Salvador Sadurni.
This season the record is even worse with an average of 1.28 goals conceded per game. Ter Stegen have conceded 19 of Barca’s 22 goals conceded in LaLiga, their worst run since 2003-2004, when they conceded 25.