Paños, the great wall of Barça: 4 goals against in 19 games

A good team is nothing without a good goalkeeper under the sticks. And Barça can boast of having one of the best on the continent in its goal: Sandra Paños (28 years old). The Barça goalkeeper is showing one more season that her level is excellent. He does it in every match he plays, presenting a security in goal that few goalkeepers achieve. Proof of this are the figures recorded in this campaign, in which He has only conceded four goals (2 in the League, 1 in the Champions League and 1 in the Super Cup) and has signed 15 clean sheets in the 19 games played in the three competitions.

In the Super Cup it would be necessary to add three more goals conceded in the penalty shootout with Atlético. Thus, only four teams have managed to beat it in goal this season. In the First Iberdrola it was Real Madrid (4-1) and Deportivo (1-6) in very bulky victories for the Catalan team. Meanwhile, PSV managed to score a goal in the first leg of the knockout stages of the Champions League and the Atlético managed to score a decisive penalty (1-1) in a semifinal of the Super Cup that was resolved in the penalty shootout. The rojiblanco team beat Barça on that occasion despite the fact that Cloths stopped a penalty to Van Dongen, who was the scorer from eleven meters during the match.

It is not the only maximum penalty that Sandra Paños has managed to stop this season. In the last week, the Spanish international has taken center stage by stopping a decisive penalty in the knockout of the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against City, in which the Catalans won 3-0. His providential intervention revealed the great weight of the Alicante woman in the ensemble of Lluís Cortés, who has no doubts with the goalkeeper under sticks.

Agile, with great reflexes and very fast, scoring a goal against Sandra seems almost impossible. His safety is a lifesaver for the team, in which he leaves performances of merit match after match. Without going any further, on this day he successfully cut a heads-up with Payne in the match against Sevilla in the Primera Iberdrola, where he has maintained his clean sheet in up to 13 of the 15 games he has played. A figure that leaves her as the goalkeeper with the most goals in the championship and with which look at his fifth Zamora Trophy.

Last season, suspended by COVID-19 in the absence of nine days, Paños only fit 5 goals in the 19 matchdays in which he has intervened in First. With these numbers, the record of the 2018-19 season, in which it was Zamora with 11 goals conceded in the 27 commitments who played in the domestic championship (0.4 per game). Figures that were identical in the previous campaign, 2017-18, with also 11 goals in 27 games.

In total, Paños has been awarded with the trophy for the least scored goalkeeper in the League on four occasions since she has been at Barça, being his first time in 2016. There is no doubt that Paños is a safe value for the Catalan team, with which the next day will be measured at Levante, a team in which he played for five seasons and from which he left in 2015 for Barcelona. It will be a very special match for the Spanish international, who will face the Champions League quarter-final against City first. The English already know how the Barça goalkeeper spends them …