Barcelona achieved their first victory in the Champions League this season against the Swiss team Young Boys with five clean goals to make up for the failure in the first match against Monaco.
The German coach Hansi Flick is looking to regain the winning rhythm in the Spanish League when he visits Deportivo Alaves in the ninth round of the competition.
According to information received from the Spanish newspaper El Nacional, Iñaki Peña’s last match in the Champions League with Barcelona was yesterday, as he was not asked to do anything noteworthy in light of his team’s overwhelming superiority over Young Boys.
From the stands of the Olympic Lluís Companys stadium in Montjuïc, Wojciech Szczesny was watching everything that was happening, before his signature was officially obtained today.
While Barcelona will continue to rely on Peña until the international break, the club hopes that this will allow Szczesny the opportunity to regain his competitive fitness, so Peña will appear in his last match as a starting goalkeeper against Alaves.
Szczesny will then take charge of goalkeeping, making his debut against Sevilla, before returning to the starting line-up for the clash with Bayern Munich and the Clasico against Real Madrid, the team’s two most challenging games as Flick has shown little faith in Peña, who has raised doubts about his performances.
It has become clear that Iñaki Peña does not have the level required to be Barcelona’s first choice, prompting Joan Laporta and Deco to head to the market for Szczesny.
With the possibility of Peña leaving Barcelona in January open, Laporta and Deco are also looking to add another reliable goalkeeper in the upcoming summer transfer window.