The season 2021-2022 was a very complicated for Marc-André Ter Stegen. At the beginning of the campaign, the guardameta was very questioned by all and sundry, did not generate the confidence of before and his performances were criticised party after party. However, afterwards the arrival of Xavi and the good series lived by the FC Barcelona, the German recovered his best state of form and went back to be fundamental for the culés, that seemed to have 'enderezado' his way. In spite of this, the bajón of the team at the end of the campaign him 'dragged' and went back to leave doubts under the three sticks.
Further to having left a series of cut across 'nail' in some crashes of League, in general lines the Teutonic gave a feeling of immense fragility along the course. His image remained far of that 'wall impasable' that consecrated like one of the best goalkeepers of the world and his average of unemployed reflected it, since with 2,17 cut across by party situated between the lowest averages of all the championship. Besides, his absolute number of interventions (76) left him in the put number 14 of the national competition, leaving in evidence that the bajón of performance of the footballer.
However, the one of Mönchengladbach has known to give him a 'twist' to his situation in the start of this season 2022-2023. The guardameta has been key in the good walk of the team of the egarense in the first 4 days of LaLiga Santander, leaving his fence invicta in three meetings and having received an alone goal. Besides, a pair of saved 'milagrosas' in transcendental moments of these parties have allowed that the culés follow without knowing the defeat in what it goes of tournament, going back to win the title of 'saviour'.
Like this then , the big performance of Sea-André also has seen reflected in the statistics. According to numbers of 'StatsBomb', during the past campaign the German was the worse second goalkeeper of the local championship according to the metric OBV (which measures the impact of the player in each action). Now, in the first 4 meetings of the LaLiga, Ter Stegen is the leader of this rubro, with similar numbers to the ones of the 2017-2018 when it was in his best version.
A big rise of level
On the other hand, along the previous campaign his numbers were negative, subtracting 0.08 in each intervention, very far of his best level. Now, in the league start, his statistics reflect a +0.6, which are the best numbers of the national championship. Like this then , the 'renacer' of Ter Stegen confirms , what is one very good news for Xavi that it always has been the big valedor of the goalkeeper inside the square.