Next aim: to tie down Ter Stegen

Barcelona are improving every day thanks to Leo Messi who is feeling more and more like himself and Luis Suarez who has silenced his critics with a handful of goals.

But Barcelona's complete resurrection would not have been possible without Marc-Andre Ter Stegen in net. The German footballer has already saved Barcelona on countless occasions, with especially stand-out performances in Dortmund against Inter at Camp Nou. His last stop of Luuk de Jong's shot in the Barcelona-Sevilla game continues normalising some interventions that for others would be almost a miracle.

For this reason, according to 'Marca', Barcelona are already working to renew the German's contract, which still does not run out until 2022. The goalkeeper, currently immersed in a battle for the number '1' place for the German national team, seems to have lost out to Neuer, has settled completely into life at Barca after a couple of seasons in which he alternated starting with Claudio Bravo.

At 27-years-old, the goalkeeper is totally integrated into the club and adapted to the country's philosophy. It is enough to hear him speak in Spanish after the matches and compare him with other compatriots.

Beyond having kept a clean sheet in 84 games of the 200 he has played - Sunday reached this round figure - the German has made 526 saves in his career, an average of 2.5 interventions per game.

They all compare him and Jan Oblak when it comes to naming the best goalkeeper on the planet, but very few speak of the stops of one and the other. While the Slovenian lives comfortably around the fortress of Cholo, Ter Stegen has to wear the cape more often by the offensive football Barca play.

After the time of Victor Valdes, the Barca team finally found a goalkeeper who could carry out a long career in the Camp Nou. A historic maxim of Barcelona, where the Ramallets, Urruti, Zubizarreta or Valdes himself made a long career for their reliability, their sobriety and the success in dealing with the few chances created during a clash. All these qualities which Ter Stegen excels in.

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