Wojciech Szczesny is aiming for a chunk of Barcelona historical past on the street at Borussia Dortmund in midweek motion.
La Blaugrana head to Sign Iduna Park seeking to rubber stamp their spot within the UEFA Champions League semi finals following a dominant 4-0 quarter ultimate first leg win final week.
Regardless of the majority of the job already being performed by Hansi Flick, Szczesny just isn’t anticipated to be one of many gamers rotated out of the crew, as Flick appears for expertise in a testing surroundings.
Szczesny has firmly established himself as Flick’s No.1 for the reason that begin of 2025 with the membership hoping to increase his short-term contract on into subsequent season.
His run of consistency between the posts has given Flick’s costs actual stability to construct from as he develops a cult following amongst the Catalans fan base.
Forward of the journey to Dortmund, the previous Poland worldwide is closing in on equalling a membership report held by the long-lasting Johan Cruyff, as a measure of simply ow nicely Szczesny is performing proper now.
If he begins as anticipated in Dortmund, will probably be his twenty third begin in all competitions since becoming a member of Barcelona, as a part of an unbeaten streak from his debut look at the beginning of January.
A twenty third successive unbeaten sport in a debut Barcelona season would match Cruyff’s determine from his first marketing campaign in 1973/74.
That may be one other unbelievable feat matched and Szczesny is heading in the right direction to interrupt new floor as the one Barcelona participant to go over 30 video games of their debut marketing campaign with Cesc Fabregas presently holding that benchmark at 30.
Nevertheless, Fabregas’ 2011/12 season ended with a hosts of close to misses, as Barcelona completed second in La Liga behind Actual Madrid and misplaced to Chelsea within the Champions League semi finals – with Szczesny hoping he won’t mirror that in Might.