The FC Barcelona suffered an authentic 'blow' in the defeat in front of the Real Madrid (3-2), a meeting in which the Barcelona group had to lidiar with a questionable referee's performance by part of César Soto Degree and also was duramente penalised by some desatenciones defensive in the background line. This reverse adds to the obtained in front of the PSG the past Tuesday in the Champions League, topping like this a truly bitter week for the culés.
No only this, but in front of the Parisians the Catalan picture already had broken his magnificent series of 13 consecutive commitments without losing (10 triumphs and three ties). Nevertheless, in LaLiga still conserved this intact register. Since Xavi Hernández announced on 27 January, after the disaster in front of the Villarreal CF (3-5), his decision to leave the club at the end of the season, faced 10 meetings in the local contest, in which they added eight victories and two parities.
In fact, the activity in LaLiga of the FC Barcelona in the last days had a detail more than remarkable: the Barcelona picture had kept his goal imbatida during six consecutive commitments. In these parties against Getafe CF (4-0), Athletic Club (0-0), RCD Mallorca (0-0), Athletic (0-3), UD The Palms (1-0) and Cádiz CF (0-1), the registers of the team improved thanks to the 'subidón' defensive that had the staff and the intervention of the guardameta German Marc-André ter Stegen, the one who, from his return to the dynamics of the Barcelonan square, after recovering of a surgery of back, did not take a lot in putting him 'closed' to the goal culé.
The series of imbatibilidad in LaLiga that was about to to win Ter Stegen
In this sense, the native of Mönchengladbach, after accumulating these six consecutive parties without receiving goal, was very near to break his personal record of minutes without fitting goal in the local contest, that at present is of 636 minutes and obtained it to the beginning of the past campaign. After receiving an annotation of Alexander Isak to the minute 6 of the meeting between the FC Barcelona and the Real Sociedad in the day 2 of LaLiga, kept his goal to zero in front of the Real Valladolid (J3), Seville FC (J4), Cádiz CF (J5), Elche (J6), RCD Mallorca (J7) and Celtic of Vigo (J8). It did not go until the day 9 that the '1' of the combined Barcelona would receive a new so much, that arrived in the duel against the Real Madrid to the minute 12, courtesy of Karim Benzema.
Curiously, this new series that was forging the formidable goalkeeper germano also came to an end in a commitment against the merengues, when Vinicius Jr. It converted an annotation from the penalty spot to the 18', putting end to this new seguidilla of arches in zero in LaLiga after 601 minutes. It is necessary to remember that the last goal that fit Ter Stegen in the local championship in this campaign 2023-24 was on 17 February in the visit of the Catalan cast to the field of the Celtic of Vigo, where Iago Sails attained vulnerar the resistance of the Teutonic in the minute 47 of this clash. From this moment, the cancerbero culé was about to to attain a historical series, remaining grieve to 36' to beat it.