The excellent streak of Wojciech Szczęsny was over. After 22 matches, he suffered his first defeat in the colors of FC Barcelona. The Catalans succumbed to 1: 3 Borussia Dortmund in the quarter -finals of the Champions League. The loss, however, had no influence on the promotion to the semi -finals – there the team of Hansi Flick checked in, thanks to the four -goal advance from the first meeting. And although the Pole recorded several great interventions on Tuesday evening, he also made a nightmare mistake in the 9th minute. Thanks to him he went down in history. Unfortunately.
Wojciech Szczęsny in the infamous lead of one of the statements. He does not lack a lot to the leader
Szczęsny wanted to stop the speeding Pascal Gross, who quickly approached his goal. The goalkeeper, however, did it in an indisputable way, and in addition to the foul occurred in the penalty area. Therefore, the judge instantly pointed to 11 meters. Serhou Guirassa approached the ball and turned the opportunity to a goal, which opened the result of the meeting.
And as Opta Analyst reports, Szczęsny entered the infamous podium of one of the classifications through his own mistake. It is about the number of chopped penalties in the career in the Champions League. It was the fourth time when a Pole fouled his rival in an indisputable way in this competition, which resulted in “11”. Thus, he was promoted to third place in the ranking, but he is not lonely there. Clement Lenglet, Dani Carvajal, Lucio, Casemiro, Tomas Galasek and Naldo caught the same number of penalties.
And who occupies two leading deposits in this infamous classification? Pepe (5) comes second, and Nicolas Otamendi is the leader. Through the Argentine, the goalkeeper of his team had to defend as many as six penalties in the Champions League.
Szczęsny saved the team from the disaster
Despite the “Falstart” of Szczęsny in the meeting, the Spanish media assessed him quite positively. Ba, some decided that he was the best player of Barcelona that day. And in fact, he had many key interventions. If it wasn't for him, the result could be much more unfavorable for the Catalans. “We didn't get the result we wanted, but it's enough to defend the place in the semi -finals” – This is how the interested party himself summed up, who was not satisfied with his performance from his performance.
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Who will Barcelona face at the next stage? We will find out about it on Wednesday. The rival will select the rematch of Inter Milan with Bayern Munich. At the moment, the Italian team is closer, which won in the first match 2: 1.