Marc-Andre Ter Stegen is included in Barcelona's team for Saturday's Copa del Rey-against against Real Madrid, after he has made a Swifter-Dan-related recovery of a knee injury.
Ter Stegen has not been playing since September, after he had torn the Patella tendon in his right knee during a 5-1 victory over Villarreal in Laliga.
He was then undergone surgery, while Barca Former Arsenal and Juventus -goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny brought out of retirement to fill the void between the sticks.
Ter Stegen returned to the training in February and on Friday he was a surprising recording in Barca's 22-man team for the Copa del Rey-final in Seville.
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Ter Stegen came to Barca from Borussia Monchengladbach in 2014 and eventually came to the fore as their first Koelliga goalkeeper during the 2016-17 campaign.
He won Liga and the Copa del Rey five times, every starting, also starting when the Blaugrana Juventus defeated Champions League final in the 2015.
Since Ter Stegen came to Barca, he has played 420 games for the club and held 174 clean sheets.
Jan Oblak (220) and Manuel Neuer (178) are the only keepers from Europe's top five competitions to improve the latter figure during that period (all competitions).
Ter Stegen played seven games in all games this season, although Barca has only saved a clean magazine in one of those games.
Although SZCZESNY has held this period 13 clean sheets and has managed Inaki Pena in 22 trips, neither of them can equal the savings percentage of Ter Stegen of 69.57%(SZCZESNY 68.83%, Pena 62.29%).
Although Hansi Flick could bring back against Barca's arch rivals Madrid on Saturday, the goalkeeper is currently not eligible to be opposite Wednesday in the first stage of the semi-finals of the Champions League.
Szczesny was registered in the place of Ter Stegen for the European luminaires of the Blaugrana and UEFA regulations states that the post should not be registered to have Barca's number one play in that competition.