Maintained lead on Real
FC Barcelona remains the sovereign leader of the LaLiga table and Marc-André ter Stegen is the goalkeeper in Europe’s top leagues who keeps his goal clean the most. Barça won 1-0 (1-0) at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday evening and is again nine points ahead of Real Madrid in the table.
A day after Reals 3:1 (2:1) against Espanyol Barcelona, the Catalans won in a moderate game. Just before the break, Raphinha (45+1) scored, as in the previous week in the 1-0 win against Valencia after work by Sergio Busquets. At first the goal didn’t count due to an alleged offside position, but the goal was awarded after VAR intervention. At the other end, a goal from Iñaki Williams (87) was later disallowed after a VAR intervention because of a handball from Iker Muniain.
For the German national goalkeeper Ter Stegen it was already the 19th appearance without conceding a goal after 25 games in the current championship season. This is by far the best value in European football at the moment. And even after a zero quota, nobody can currently match the former Gladbach player, who has now kept a clean sheet in 76 percent of all league games. Odysseas Vlachodimos, who was born in Stuttgart, collected the second most clean sheets in the 20 strongest divisions in Europe with 16 out of 24 appearances for Benfica. Milan Borjan (25 appearances for Roter Stern), Alberto Brignoli (26 appearances for Panathinaikos) and Jean Butez (29 appearances for Royal Antwerpen) also managed to do so just as often with more games.
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