Barcelona 2-1 Real Sociedad: 5 Talking Points

#3 ter Stegen proving his value once more

ter Stegen quietly made his presence felt again as Barca's no.1 made important saves when called upon

It's easy to force a narrative and one of football's most common at present is that the world's best goalkeeper is in the Premier League. Well, he's not. David de Gea's a quality goalkeeper, but the battle lies between Spain's top two - Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Jan Oblak.

Both go about their business quietly and without much fanfare, even when making acrobatic saves and important interventions to save their team from dangerous situations. ter Stegen once again displayed his class when called upon against a dangerous Sociedad team, who created a few promising openings and really should have scored more than their eventual one on this occasion.

He made a smart stop to deny goalscorer Juanmi from close-range in the first-half, closing down the angles at his near post and spreading himself to block the Spaniard's effort. Willian Jose should have hit the target from the rebound but blazed over.

Then, he made an acrobatic stop to thwart Ruben Pardo's deflected effort after the break as it appeared destined to creep in at his far corner. Clawing the strike to safety, there was nothing he could really do to stop Juanmi from eventually scoring his tidy finish to equalise.