Ter Stegen was the protagonist for the worse 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 while being the last man. The truth is that the former Girona player can do little in this action because it is his goalkeeper who puts him in a bind 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 sides 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 stops to try to move forward, the goalkeeper gives him a long shot and the Japanese gets ahead of Eric and steals his wallet. When reacting to try to catch that ball, the Barça footballer, who was playing his first game as a starter with Hansi Flick, knocked down the Monaco striker on the edge of the area.
Minamino was going alone against Ter Stegen when Eric García knocked him down. The defender was sent off and at the end of the game his teammate acknowledged that they did not understand each other well in that play that ended with the red card at 24 after the VAR review. An expulsion that conditioned Hansi Flick’s team for the rest of the match, since it happened in the early stages 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 confessed in Movistar Champions League about the action that marked the match. Barcelona fans have jumped on him after these statements, since they consider that he is to blame 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 #LaCasaldeFútbol https://t.co/RCDZeHEmgs pic.twitter.com/xFKrtzO7xy
— Football on Movistar Plus+ (@MovistarFutbol) September 19, 2024
The culés point solely and exclusively at the German goalkeeper in that action. Ter Stegen: «The fault has been solely and exclusively yours.. It was not a matter of two, as you have stated to Ricardo Sierra (in Movistar). Without palliatives. You had two guys open. “You screwed up,” said one on social networks after hearing the goalkeeper’s statements.
«Ter Stegen literally chose the worst option. It had 2 unmarked centre-backs and the 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,” commented another, who attached a screenshot in which Cubarsí and Íñigo Martínez are seen released to the sides, but he chose the worst option, which is Eric García, and ended with the fatal expulsion. of the Barça defender, who played as a pivot, and will be out for the next Champions League match in Montjuic against Young Boys.
Ter Stegen literally chose the worst option. He had 2 unmarked centre-backs and the full-backs open for long balls. He 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
