Chronicle.Ter Stegen puts Barcelona in the final of the Super Cup after penalties
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Marc-André ter Stegen
is not one of those goalkeepers who are obsessed with knowing the virtues of the rival.
Neither has papers on the sticks, nor does he wait for the advice of his coach,
De la Fuente
.
He is so sure of his qualities that, at least for him, learning by heart where and how opponents shoot does not enter his plans.
Does not matter.
The Barcelona goalkeeper, 22 years after the Dutch
Ruud Hesp
gave Barcelona a Copa del Rey at Mestalla in the last penalty shootout that the Catalans had played to date, completed one of the games of his life in Córdoba.
Of those that force the analyst to put him back in front of the best goalkeepers in the world.
"I did not study the pitches much," the German goalkeeper confessed once the game was over, downplaying his extraordinary work in the New Archangel.
Ter Stegen counted up to six stops against Real Sociedad, equaling his best record as a Barcelona player (against Dinamo Kiev at the Camp Nou this season in the Champions League).
Recital
He overwhelmed
Isak
in a one-on-one.
Then to
Zaldua
when he thought that his lash would have no answer.
He
snatched a free-kick from
Januzaj
with his fingertips in the last minute of extra time.
And all that was completed in the penalty shootout.
Before intimidating
Willian José
, he arrested
Bautista
and, above all,
Oyarzabal
.
The San Sebastian captain, always impeccable from eleven meters and who had scored 16 penalties in a row, discovered the frustration.
He had never failed in his career.
"He was clear that he was going to shoot and he was going to put him in ... But no. If tomorrow he had to take a penalty, he would do the same," admitted Oyarzabal, who was the only one who could beat the German, also from eleven meters, in the 1-1 caused by a hand from
De Jong
in the area.
Imanol Alguacil
, great banner of this Royal Society who aspired to play the second final of the Super Cup in its history, understood that it could not be a night for reproaches: "We completed a great game from minute 1 to 120. On an offensive and defensive level, focused, defending, pressing. We did so many things well ... I hope the Real fan is as proud as I am. "
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