Ter Stegen was the protagonist of the worst in the play of the expulsion of Eric Garcia. The pivot of Barcelona He was sent off in the 10th minute of the match for knocking down a Monaco player when he was the last player. The truth is that the former Girona player can’t do much in this action because it is his goalkeeper who puts him in a deadlock by giving him that ball with a footballer on top of him. But the German goalkeeper did not recognize his mistake after the defeat and assured that it was a lack of understanding between the two.
The reality is that Ter Stegen has two released teammates at his side and decided to give in to Eric García, even though the current Barça pivot had Minamino very close to his back. Just when the Barça player stopped to try to advance, the goalkeeper launched a long-range shot and the Japanese got ahead of Eric and stole his wallet. Reacting to try to catch the ball, the Barça footballer, who was playing his first match as a starter with Hansi Flick, knocked down the Monaco striker at the edge of the area.
Minamino was facing Ter Stegen alone when Eric Garcia knocked him downThe defender was sent off and at the end of the match his teammate acknowledged that they had not understood each other well in that game that ended with the red card in the 24th minute after the VAR review. An expulsion that conditioned Hansi Flick’s team for the rest of the match, since it happened right at the beginning of the match.
“We didn’t understand each other well in this situation. I feel bad for Eric. “In the end, it hurts him and we have to play almost 80 minutes with one less,” Ter Stegen admitted during the Movistar Champions League about the action that marked the match. Barcelona fans threw themselves at him after these statements, because they consider him responsible for the expulsion for the bad pass he gave them.
“We didn’t understand each other well. “I feel bad for Eric.”
🎙️ Ter Stegen, with @Rsierraplus.#UCL #LaCasaldeFutbol pic.twitter.com/xFKrtzO7xy
– Football on Movistar Plus+ (@MovistarFutbol) September 19, 2024
The culés point only and exclusively to the German goalkeeper in this action. Ter Stegen: “The fault lies solely and exclusively with you.. It was not a matter of two, as you told Ricardo Sierra (in Movistar). Without palliatives. You had two guys open. “You messed up,” said one on social networks after hearing the goalkeeper’s statements.
“Ter Stegen literally chose the worst option. There were 2 unmarked central defenders and full-backs open to long balls. I had 4 good options and one bad one. “He chose the only teammate who had a player marking him,” commented another, who attached a screenshot in which Cubarsí and Íñigo Martínez are seen released to the wings, but he chose the worst option, which is Eric García, and ended with the fatal expulsion of the Barça defender, who was playing as a pivot, and will be absent for the next Champions League match at Montjuic against Young Boys.
Ter Stegen literally chose the worst option. There were 2 unmarked centre-backs and full-backs open for long balls. I had 4 good options and one bad one. He chose the only teammate who had a player marking him. pic.twitter.com/6agjltk2SC
– Universo FCBarcelona (@UNIVERSO_1899) September 19, 2024
