{"id":829,"date":"2025-08-11T17:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:28:26","slug":"barcelona-look-smooth-in-como-demolition-as-ter-stegen-buries-hatchet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/barcelona-look-smooth-in-como-demolition-as-ter-stegen-buries-hatchet\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona look smooth in Como demolition as Ter Stegen buries hatchet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reigning Spanish champions Barcelona completed their pre-season preparations by thrashing Italian side Como 5-0 on Sunday in a game which signalled a thawing of relations with goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barca also gave Marcus Rashford his first start two weeks after the England forward joined on loan from Manchester United.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Double strikes from Fermin Lopez and Lamine Yamal and a first-half goal from Brazilian Raphinha completed the rout in the Joan Gamper Trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Played at the Johan Cruyff Stadium within the team&#8217;s training complex, while Barcelona wait for the heavily delayed modernisation of the Camp Nou to be completed, Hansi Flick&#8217;s team showed fluency as they prepare to begin their Liga title defence away to Mallorca on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before kickoff on Sunday, Ter Stegen gave the traditional captain&#8217;s speech from the pitch, just days after his dispute with the club over the handling of his back injury broke to the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think it was important to resolve the issue between the club and me, and now it&#8217;s time to look forward,&#8221; said the 33-year-old German goalkeeper, two days after having the captaincy restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to fight again for all the trophies and we hope that with your help we can win all the titles possible,&#8221; Ter Stegen told the fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rashford suffered mixed fortunes, providing the cross for Raphinha to score but also blowing the chance to tap into an empty net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning Spanish champions Barcelona completed their pre-season preparations by thrashing Italian side Como 5-0 on Sunday in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}