New coach but same mistakes. And from the players who suppose to be the most experienced ones. Marc ter Stegen, the experienced goalkeeper and the captain made a rookie mistake last night, trying to play with his feet in a risky situation, and put Erik Garcia in a difficult situation. But nevertheless, the Barca defender didn’t learn the lesson from last year’s competition and made a red card tackle on Minamino. Monaco ended up winning the game 2-1, clearly taking advantage of one more man on the field.UCL: Ter Stegen’s mega blunder helps Monaco defeat BarcaAnd what happened last season? Barca was leading against PSG in the quarter finals when Ronald Araujo was sent off for a tackle he could have avoided and the Parisian ended up winning 4-1. That irrational decision was also the reason why Ilkay Gundogan criticized him after the game and for Barca everything went down from that point on. And tonight, the same situation. If Garcia allowed Minamino to score without tacking him, it would be 1-0, but Barca would have all 11 men on the field. Captain Ter Stegen apologized for this situation.”We didn’t understand each other well in that situation, I feel bad for Eric, it hurts him. And we played 80 minutes with one less player. We didn’t understand each other. Something happened that shouldn’t happen to anyone. These are things that happen in football. The defeat hurts, because with 10 on the field we stood up and tried to get a point” said the German for Movistar after the game.12 – #Barcelona 🔵🔴 have lost 12 of their last 26 games in the #ChampionsLeague (46.2%), one more than in their previous 79 games in the competition (13.9%). Thorn. pic.twitter.com/RLAwLj0xGF— OptaJose (@OptaJose) September 19, 2024 Ter Stegen thought that the second goal came without much work from Monaco and that his teammates must now forget about this and focus on Villarreal on Sunday.”We stood up for ourselves. And the second goal came at an undeserved moment. In the end you are left with the bad feeling of not having earned any points. We knew they were going to push. We wanted to come together and it worked quite well for us to a certain extent, but they scored a goal without much play. In the Champions League you always have to win. That’s the objective. We’ll try to win the next game at home. Now we’re focused on the Villarreal game” said the German.LA LIGA MATCHDAY 7Friday22:00: (2.25) Alaves (3.30) Sevilla (3.60)Saturday15:00: (3.70) Valladolid (3.20) Sociedad (2.25)17:15: (1.90) Osasuna (3.40) Las Palmas (4.30)19:30: (2.90) Valencia (3.35) Girona (2.60)22:00: (1.20) Real Madrid (7.75) Espanyol (16.0)Sunday15:00: (2.10) Getafe (2.85) Leganes (4.80)17:15: (1.70) Ath.Bilbao (3.60) Celta (5.30)19:30: (4.40) Villareal (3.70) Barcelona (1.80)22:00: (4.90) Rayo Vallecano (3.60) Atl.Madrid (1.85)Monday22:00 (1.90) Betis (3.50) Mallorca (4.70)***odds are subject to change***
