Is Ter Stegen the photographer Barcelona’s problem? Aboutrika answers | Sports

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20/9/2024–|Last update: 9/20/202409:06 PM (Makkah Time)

German goalkeeper Andre Ter Stegen caused his team Barcelona’s first loss this season, 1-2, against Monaco, yesterday, Thursday, in the first round of the Champions League in its new format.

Ter Stegen (32 years old) committed a series of mistakes that led to the defeat, which prompted his German coach Hansi Flick to “reprimand him”, according to the Spanish newspaper “Sport”, and he told him, “You cannot commit these primitive mistakes while you are the captain of Barcelona.”

The German goalkeeper’s mistakes began with a naive and dangerous mistake that no goalkeeper with his great experience would make when he caused the expulsion of his teammate Eric Garcia in the tenth minute, as he passed the ball to him and right next to him was a Monaco player who did not hesitate and pounced on the ball and almost broke through to Barcelona’s goal, but Garcia grabbed him and was immediately sent off with a red card for “preventing a clear opportunity to score a goal”, according to Article 12 of the Laws of the Game (Fouls and Misconduct).

Strangely, Ter Stegen tried to hold his teammate responsible for his mistake, saying, “I didn’t get along well with Erik, I feel bad for him. This shouldn’t happen, neither from me nor from him, but this is football.”

Monaco took advantage of Barcelona’s numerical disadvantage and scored the lead goal through Magnes Akliouche in the 16th minute, but the promising Spaniard Lamine Jamal equalized for Barcelona in the 28th minute.

Monaco regained the lead by scoring the second goal from a shot by Jorge Alenigia in the 71st minute, a mistake that Ter Stegen was also responsible for, as he dived to the opposite side of the ball instead of stopping it, according to experts, including the analyst for the Qatari channel “BeIN Sports” Mohamed Aboutrika, who mocked the German goalkeeper and described him as a “photographer.”

After the match, Abu Trika said about Ter Stegen, “He will enter the 100 club in the next match after he conceded 99 goals in 85 matches” in the Champions League, noting that he was afraid even though he is the team captain.

The former Egyptian national team and Al-Ahly star added that all players gain experience and confidence with age, except for Ter Stegen, who has become one of Barcelona’s problems, as they changed all the players except him, and even gave him the captain’s armband, according to him.

Despite Barcelona leading the Spanish league with a full score after winning its first five matches, it put itself in a difficult position in the Champions League with the defeat against Monaco, and caused a crisis of confidence in the team with its goalkeeper and captain, who became the first-choice goalkeeper for the German national team after the first-choice goalkeeper Manuel Neuer announced his retirement from international play recently.

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