If there is a Barcelona footballer who is growing in prominence this season, that is Gemma Font (Tagamanent, 1999). Member of the first Blaugrana squad since the 2018-19 campaign, the Catalan goalkeeper He has fulfilled every time that his presence has been required in the starting eleven, something that at the beginning of this course has been usual for the injury of Sandra Paños. In fact, although the player from Alicante returned to Jonatan Giráldez’s call this Saturday to visit Betis, the eldest of the Font sisters remained in the initial team. He has made merits for it.
why Gemma chains three clean sheets in the F League and one in the Champions League. With 23 years old this Sunday, the one from Tagamanent becomes great in the culé goal. His first minutes this season came on October 1, in Barça’s 7-0 win over Madrid CFF. In that match, in which he warmed up with his little sister Txell, he made a great intervention to a shot by Chanda when the score was still tight (1-0)…
Then came the visit to Lezama, with the Blaugrana winning 0-3. Safely overlooked and increasingly confident to give instructions to his companions, Gemma saved a long shot from Mariana Cerro in one of the few local chances. You have to be there. That was his second clean sheet in the F League, to which he added one in the Champions League last week, in the 9-0 of Giráldez’s against Benfica, and another also in the domestic competition, in the 0-3 against Betis.
With the return of Sandra Paños to the call, Gemma Font’s ownership against the Verdiblancas was significant and the Catalan didn’t fail: she went well in the lateral shipments and stopped Babajide in the 20th minute. Together with Enith Salón, the culé goalkeeper is the only one who he has kept a clean sheet three times so far this season in Liga F. Gemma Font has become ‘big’.
