Despite the great success against Villarreal (5-1) last Sunday, FC Barcelona suffered a terrible blow when they learned of the injury to Marc-André Ter Stegen. Taken out on a stretcher, the German goalkeeper suffered a complete rupture of the patellar tendon in his right knee and will not play again this season. Thus, the Catalan leaders studied the possibility of compensating for his long-term package by hiring a goalkeeper currently without a club. If veteran Wojciech Szczesny was announced as the number 1 favorite to replace him, Hansi Flick suggested that he could give the keys to the starting position to Iñaki Pena, Ter Stegen’s usual understudy.
“Iñaki can be a goalkeeper all season, why not. It’s good, the confidence he’s going to have in the matches. As for another goalkeeper, I don’t know, we’ll have to wait. He also attended every meeting we held. During the last match you could see that there was a very good connection between Iñaki and his teammates“, conceded the German technician at a press conference before going to face Osasuna.
