The situation
Marc André Ter Stegen is being one of the main protagonists at this start of the course for FC Barcelona . In four official matches, he has only conceded one goal, against Real Sociedad (1-4), and it was practically a rebound, in an unfortunate clearance by Eric Garcia , who touched Isak , making the ball a miraculous parabola, to end up going in at the bottom of the goal. In the rest of the games that he has been under the sticks, the result has been the same: a clean sheet . We are talking about the home games against Rayo (0-0) and Valladolid (4-0) and the last game against Sevilla (0-3). With the match at the Sánchez Pizjuán, Ter Stegen has already added, in his eight years as a Blaugrana, a total of 132 games with a clean sheet, of which 90 have been circumscribed in LaLiga. This balance, taking into account that he has played a total of 331 games, shows a spectacular average of 40% of games without conceding a goal. His best balance in LaLiga was reached in the 2017/18 season, where he was able to add 19 days to zero, out of a total of 37 games, with a record average of 51%, while his worst numbers were in the campaign 2020/21, with only 11 games to zero, out of a total of 35, yielding a discreet 31% average. As a curious fact, it should be noted that Ter Stegen has conceded a total of 330 goals in 331 games , so it can be said that he scores one goal per game.
The details
If we go a little further, he is also clearly the winner in the results: he has 219 wins, 63 draws and 49 losses. Ter Stegen right now has recovered his best version, the one that took him to Olympus in the 2014/15 season, where his save from a point-blank shot by Robert Lewandowski was chosen as the best in the Champions League. The goalkeeper, who decided to take a break this vacation and not attend the national team’s call, has shown with this decision that he was completely right, because he is going through a moment in a simply spectacular way. This Wednesday, against Viktoria Pilsen in the Champions League debut, he has another opportunity to continue ‘fattening up’ his spectacular numbers.