This Tuesday, the FC Barcelona​ premièred in the Champions League, in the first party of the phase of groups playing in the Signal Iduna Park against the Borussia Dortmund. A party in which it expected see the continuity of the good game that the team of Ernesto Valverde reflected the past weekend against the Valency in the Camp Nou, but in which the reality was very distinct.

After a first time in which there was equality in the game, arrived a second much more unbalanced period. The German team ate to the Barcelona with an intense game that cancelled the attacks culés and that achieved to generate numerous occasions of goal. Luckily, in the goal of the Barça appeared Marc-André ter Stegen, that went the best and saved to the Catalans of a defeat.

Finally there was tie to zero and all was thanks to his interventions. Had one of merit in the first time, but what did after the rest was a recital, with a penalti stopped to his mate Marco Reus and numerous unemployed, a pair of them point-blank, that could save.

Of course, the German press hallucinated with the party of his compatriot and Ter Stegen carried all the covers of the sportive means of his country. "Ter Stegen Detains to Reus", of the magazine 'Kicker'; "The BVB fails only in front of Ter Stegen", of 'Frankfurter Allgemeine'; "Ter Stegen leaves exasperated to the BVB", of the newspaper 'Bild', went some of the headlines that carried .

Ter Stegen, acting in Germany

Curiously, the big performance of Ter Stegen in his country comes shortly after the statements in which it showed frustrated for being the eternal acting of Manuel Neuer in the German selection. The goalkeeper of the Bayern answered him of cutting form, but the true is that week by week the Barcelona show to be better player.

Nevertheless, Joachim Löw follows with his species of crusade against the goalkeeper culé. For the seleccionador German, the figure of Neuer is indisputable without mattering that Ter Stegen can be in better form. A lot of sectors of the German press begin to be against of this firm decision.