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Szczesny Barca’s first-choice goalkeeper

 Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said Tuesday he and his staff have chosen Wojciech Szczesny over Inaki Pena as the team’s first-choice goalkeeper.

The Catalan giants brought former Polish international Szczesny out of retirement as an emergen­cy signing in October after Marc-Andre ter Stegen suffered a severe knee injury.

Pena has been the club’s number one during the first half of the season but Szcze­sny was chosen in the previous two matches.

“My job is to make the deci­sion on this position… for me Tek Szczesny is an experienced player and he has a good personality, but both of them are great goalkeepers,” Flick told a news conference ahead of the Champions League clash with Atalanta on Wednesday.

“I decided, also with my team, my coaching staff, for Tek… both are very good, and in the past Inaki did a good job, but now I decided like that.

“I always look for the good of the team, and this is how we act.”

Barcelona already secured qualifi­cation directly to the last 16 of the Champions League with a 5-4 win over Benfica last week, in which Szczesny made two big mistakes which led to goals.-flashscore

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