Ter Stegen, lifeguard in the final agony

With a starting eleven at 24 years and 201 days on average, the lowest since visiting Celta (24 and 165) in May 2019 three days before the Liverpool debacle, the veteran Luke de Jong (31) decided in the rival area and a sacred cow saved a golden triumph surrounded by children. Transparent in several games this course, Marc-Andre ter The steps served as a lifeguard for Barça on the island of the Germans with a save in the 91st minute. His Moix where Jose Manuel Pinto stopped a penalty in March 2009 to Pep Lluís Martí who got into the Cup final at Barça of the triplet, Xavi Hernandez He could not escape suffering like that day but the coin came back heads in a 2022 premiere to boost himself. In need of affection, Ter Stegen multiplied his self-esteem and that of the team, who embraced him like a hero after putting his right hand under sticks which Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas in a point-blank shot of Jaume costa.

He asked for the time on Barça Overcoming all the elements in the same stadium where he debuted in June 2020 with a 0-4 after confinement. A year and a half later, the Covid continues hitting leaving Barça with eight absences for two positives for a total of 16 in a scenario so atypical that it even saw Gerard Piqué throw a direct free kick and hallucinate his friend Cesc Fàbregas on Twitter: “I hammered kicking a direct free kick in 2022, see it to believe it,” he wrote with a laughing smiley. Then he surrendered to Ter Stegen, with whom he did not share a wardrobe in the Barça: “My mother, what a paradón.”

It was in that final stretch when Xavi he rearmed himself in his previous thesis of suspending the game when he saw how the effort of his team made flies drop to Nico Gonzalez Y Òscar Mingueza and give the alternative to Alvaro Sanz (20 years) and Estanis Pedrola (18), ending this next to Ferran Jutglà (19) and Luke de Jong in attack. That Xavi end up talking about a feat calling the victory “historic” raises the value of three points that already leave the Barça within walking distance of the Champions to face a hopeful year with the gradual incorporation of Pedri, Ansu, Ferran Torres and who can get more like Morata. The lucky island Tenerife for him Barça in 1992 and 1993, it was this time Mallorca for Xavi, there where he debuted with a goal in the Spanish Super Cup in 1998.

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