Barcelona mortgaged their option to the league title after the tie against Celta 2-2. Now the Catalans depend on Real Madrid, which depends on itself to start alone at the top of the table.
If in a few more weeks Barcelona gives the claw and snatches the League from the meringues, it will be partly because Marc-André ter Stegen, the German goalkeeper who this Saturday prevented the Catalans from losing to Celta (see compact).
In the 79 ‘when Barcelona was still in a partial 1-2 advantage, Ter Stegen put in a prodigious hand to avoid Nolito’s low shot.
Already in discounts, the german pulled from the line what could have been Celta’s 3-2 goal, but this time Ter Stegen found himself with the discreet shot of Nolito, who had the rest of the goal at his disposal.
