BRAVO
The current Barca No. 1 saw his ex-colleague Claudio Bravo
endure a nightmare return to Camp Nou - a sinking feeling he knows well between
the posts.
Game-changing errors such as the one committed by Manchester
City's Claudio Bravo on Wednesday are the unfortunate lot of goalkeepers,
according to Barcelona's Marc-Andre ter Stegen.
Barcelona ran out 4-0 winners over their Champions League
Group C rivals at Camp Nou, with Lionel Messi hitting a hat-trick before Neymar
recovered from a saved penalty to complete the scoring after 89 minutes.
The match was poised at 1-0 early in the second half when
Bravo dashed out of his area, made a hash of a clearance and handled Luis
Suarez's shot, leaving referee Milorad Mazic with little choice but to
send him off.
Ter Stegen looked on as his team-mates punished the mistake
made by the man he was understudy to for the past two seasons, before Bravo
signed for Pep Guardiola's City.
"Bravo and I talked about other things, but in the end
these are things that happen - that's life for the goalkeeper," the
Germany international, whose own slip-ups played a significant role in a
recent loss to Celta Vigo, told beIN Sport.
"This happens sometimes but [in the long term there is]
no problems for him or for his team.
Messi was the familiar source of most of those strikes as he
hit the 37th treble of an astonishing career, but Ter Stegen hailed a team
effort.
"Leo Messi is very important to us, to our way of
playing, but we also have many players who can score and move the ball,"
he added.
"We have one of the best teams in the world, but you
have to prove it every week."
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