They call Ter Stegen a ‘statue’ and Míchel comes to his defense

He Ajax is having a somewhat irregular start to the season, both in the results and in the game of the team as a whole. Michel. The team of the former Girona He has two draws in a row and right now he is fifth in the Eredivisie 5 points behind Feyenoord.

One of the untouchables in the team is Ter Stegen, on loan from FC Barcelona and that he seems to have left behind the injuries that have affected him so much in the last two seasons. However, the German is coming under some criticism. He has not made serious mistakes, but a goalkeeper of his level is expected to always border on excellent.

The point is that at a press conference, a journalist referred to Ter Stegen as one of the wax statues of the famous Amsterdam museum, Madame Tussauds, and Míchel did not hesitate to defend his player: “I do not agree that he is a statue in goal, when you have the ball on your foot and you are the free man, it is very difficult to generate superiority.”

In that same press conference, the Vallecano made self-criticism and acknowledged that the fact that Ter Stegen sometimes keeps the ball at his feet for too long is his and the team’s fault: I think we should have played in a different way in these situations, playing shorter and causing more movements from the rival to generate superiority and spaces behind us,” Míchel concluded.